From the Classic Rock archive: August 2005
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- » Can rock music change the world? The organisers of Live 8 certainly think so,...
- » MEET CLASSIC ROCK Ian Fortnam Unashamed Johnny Thunders aficionado and punk...
- » DEAD DEAD GOOD As a 40-something old rocker I find your ‘100 greatest’ lists...
- » BON SCOTT: WE WANT THE TRUTH
- » CLASSIC ROCK SAVED MY ASS Just like to say what a great mag Classic Rock is....
- » READERS’ BADGES Loved your collection of badges shown in issue 80. Here’s a...
- » WEILAND’S NAZI NONSENSE Enough Velvet Revolver already! They are a great...
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- » SHOULD’VE PAID ATTENTION IN GEOGRAPHY The postcode and address might make you...
- » ZAKK WYLDE IS A BIG GIRL Zakk Wylde is the rock world’s biggest hypocrite...
- » CRÜE TO BE KIND I really enjoyed the Mötley Crüe feature in July’s issue of...
- » LETTER OF THE MONTH ROCK’S DIAMOND GEEZER I enjoyed reading your article on...
- » TEXT CROCK!
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- » Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is among the guests on Santana’s forthcoming...
- » LEMMY
- » The ’Oo wants you!
- » Poullain exits Darkness
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- » Introducing
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- » THE BRANDS THAT BUILT ROCK’N’ROLL
- » According to Queensrÿche singer Geoff Tate, “the door is now officially...
- » FRANK BLACK
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- » Shaken and stirred
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- » WORLD TOUR ROCK’N’ROLL LANDMARKS
- » INXS are down to the last 15 hopefuls in their televised quest to find a new...
- » Don’t Quote Me
- » WISH YOU WERE HERE ★PINK FLOYD
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- » Introducing
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- » BRITAIN’S BEST TRIBUTE BANDS
- » Iron Maiden release a new double live album and DVD on August 29. Death On...
- » Welcome back...
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- » LOS SOULS
- » Opeth have signed a new deal with Roadrunner Records and are completing Ghost...
- » CLUTCH
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- » ★THE RAMONES
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- » BRAD WILK AUDIOSLAVE
- » For as yet undisclosed reasons, The Cure have parted company with guitarist...
- » GOTTHARD
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- » Introducing
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- » THE POWER OF LOVE
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- » Back with their most progressive album to date, meet the UK band who aren’t...
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- » BadWisdom
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- » RADIOACTIVE *GENE SIMMONS
- » ROCK’N’ROLL SUICIDE
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- » Rogue Male almost killed my mother!
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- » ewind to a short time earlier.
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- » On the road in the US in 1980, Laura Canyon encountered a distinctly...
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- » BACK IN BLACK TRACK-BY-TRACK
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- » BACK IN BLACK: THE LYRICAL DEBATE
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- » WAS 1980 THE GREATEST YEAR IN METAL HISTORY?
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- » BONG! THE STORY OF AC/DC’S HELL’S BELL
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- » hat is a power ballad? In its purest, most simplistic sense it’s a ballad...
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- » GEOFF TATE QUEENSRŸCHE
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- » STEVE LUKATHER TOTO
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- » SEBASTIAN BACH EX-SKID ROW
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- » MICK JONES FOREIGNER
- » KLAUS MEINE THE SCORPIONS
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- » MEAT LOAF
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- » JOE PERRY AEROSMITH
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- » Seemingly on a mission to play more notes per second, in the most baffling...
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- » THE FIVE DREAM THEATER SOLO/SIDE PROJECTS YOU SHOULD HEAR.
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- » ROCK’N’ ROLL ANIMALS? John Petrucci on Dream Theater’s five most excessive...
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- » BUSINESS
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- » RONNO AND ME
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- » DIARY
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- » A decade has passed since the Foo Fighters rose phoenix-like from the ashes...
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- » ON HIS REACTION TO BEING ASKED ABOUT KURT COBAIN’S DEATH
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- » rs used to be easy to ognise: the
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- » use
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- » Double Dynamite
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- » More than 25 years down the line, Killing Joke are still making music that is...
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- » Jaz Coleman is a very successful classical musician.
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- » Diamond in the rough
- » BOB MOULD Body Of Song
- » FRANK BLACK Honeycomb
- » DANIEL LANOIS Belladonna
- » GRAND MAGUS Wolf’s Return Rise Above
- » GOTTHARD Lip Service
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- » HAYSEED DIXIE A Hot Piece Of Grass Cooking Vinyl Hillbilly covers band rock on.
- » RAY WILSON Live
- » ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK Beat Me
- » SHELBY LYNNE Suit Yourself
- » THE MUTTS Life In Dirt
- » ROUND-UP: EXTREME By Tommy Udo
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- » An ‘A’ please, Carol
- » KINESIS You Are Being Lied To Captains Of Industry Rightful heirs to the...
- » HAZY MALAZE Blackout Love Fargo Neal Casal’s rock ’n’ soul trio please...
- » THE CASANOVAS The Casanovas Rubber Records
- » STEPHEN STILLS Man Alive!
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- » DEVILDRIVER The Fury Of Our Maker’s Hand
- » AVENGED SEVENFOLD City Of Evil
- » VARIOUS ARTISTS This Is Punk Rock Blues
- » CLUTCH Robot Hive/Exodus DRT
- » KINRICK Sense Your Darkness Majestic Rock Drab trad metal from...
- » COLDPLAY X&Y
- » ROUND-UP: PROG ROCK By Nick Shilton MAN ON FIRE Habitat ProgRock Led by...
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- » BRIAN ENO Another Day On Earth
- » FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND Hours (Atlantic) Welsh hopefuls come of age.
- » WINGDOM Reality
- » ONEIDA The Wedding
- » DANKO JONES We Sweat Blood Razor and Tie It’s MISTER Jones for now on.
- » And other new releases out this month...
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- » SHADOW GALLERY Room V
- » THOR Against the World Smog Veil A din from the son of Odin.
- » BLOODSIMPLE A Cruel World Bullgoat/Reprise Ex-hardcore heroes unleash...
- » TRASHMONKEYS The Maker
- » ★ J MASCIS
- » THE RED CHORD Clients
- » THE GOLDENHOUR Always In The Now
- » ROUND-UP: SLEAZE By Sleazegrinder
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- » HAZEL O’CONNOR Hidden Heart AdHoc
- » CANDIRIA What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes You Stronger
- » ROBERT CRAY Twenty
- » Dazed and confused
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- » THE CHURCH El Momento Descuidado Cooking Vinyl
- » WEEZER Make Believe Geffen Post-grungers’ fifth album turns the self-pity up...
- » MARTHA WAINRIGHT Martha Wainright
- » GILES Giles
- » GUIDED BY VOICES Isolation Drills TVT Europe Polished album from lamented...
- » And other new releases out this month...
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- » Boston blues
- » AMEN Gun Of A Preacher Man
- » TYGERS OF PAN TANG Leg Of The Boot – Live In Holland Angel Air
- » AL STEWART A Beach Full Of Shells
- » KRAFTWERK Minimum-Maximum EMI
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- » In 1994 Killing Joke recorded Exorcism in the King’s Chamber of Cairo’s Great...
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- » ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN Burn Bright Burn Fast
- » LOUIS XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept Atlantic
- » JUMP Faithful Faithless DenTel
- » DANIEL WYLIE Postcards
- » STYX
- » DEMONS & WIZARDS Touched By The Crimson King
- » ROUND-UP: MELODIC ROCK By Dave Reynolds
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- » GWAR Live From Mount Fuji DRT
- » BRAZEN ABBOT My Resurrection Frontiers
- » SKEW SISKIN Devil’s Disciple
- » DANIEL ASH Come Alive Fulfill Epic live stuff from Harmony Hairspray’s most...
- » THE KNITTERS The Modern Sounds Of The Knitters
- » And other new releases out this month...
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- » JESSE HECTOR Gorilla Garage
- » KLAUS SCHULZE Reissues
- » RASPBERRIES Greatest
- » THE JOOK Different Class
- » ONSLAUGHT Reissues
- » THE RADIATORS
- » Pop idol
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- » PAT BENATAR Greatest Hits EMI
- » THE HERD The Complete Herd Repertoire Time to put The Herd out to graze for...
- » 3 COLOURS RED If You Ain’t Got A Weapon... You’ll Never Get A Say Castle
- » ED KUEPPER Everybody’s Got To
- » Bring your own bombs
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- » THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS A User’s Guide To...
- » VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR Reissues
- » GILES GILES & FRIPP The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles Giles & Fripp
- » MOTT THE HOOPLE Family Anthology
- » THE MELVINS Mangled Demos From 1983 Ipecac
- » DEEP PURPLE Live In Stockholm Purple Records Paint It Black done as a drum...
- » Welcome to the machine
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- » EXCITER Reissues Megaforce Four albums from classic 80s Canadian thrashers.
- » BARRACUDAS Drop Out With The Barracudas
- » CANNED HEAT Very Best Of
- » CLAM ABUSE Stop Thinking
- » The song remains the same
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- » THE MEMBERS Res-Erected - The Very Best of The Members Patchy ‘best of’...
- » PETE YORK Percussion Band Purple
- » STEVE MORSE Prime Cuts Magna Carta/Mascot Career highlights from current Deep...
- » THE ADVERTS Cast Of Thousands The Devil’s Own Jukebox Bored teenagers grow up.
- » JEZEBELLE Jezebelle
- » BILL FAY Reissues
- » PETER HAMMILL Fool’s Mate
- » REISSUES: KILLING JOKE
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- » AMON DÜÜL II Reissues
- » ROKY ERICKSON Reissues Rykodisc Troubled but seminal garage rocker beats his...
- » GONG Live In Sherwood Forest ’75 Major League Productions Vintage live album...
- » Feels like the last time
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- » ’Spring-loaded
- » FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Out Of State Plates Virgin
- » BURZUM Burzum
- » JOHN
- » WOLFPAC Evil Is...
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- » BLUE ÖYSTER CULT The Singles Collection
- » BOB DYLAN Reissues Sony/BMG Classic early albums, remastered.
- » JERRY GARCIA & HOWARD WALES Hooteroll? Douglas Garcia’s first post-Dead album...
- » TIGERTAILZ Reissues
- » BRIAN WILSON I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
- » MEDUSA Clash Of The Titans Majestic Rock Forgettable NWOBHM
- » REISSUES: Porcupine Tree
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- » * Iron Maiden
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- » Taking it to the extreme
- » THE PRETTIEST STAR: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRETT SMILEY? Nina Antonia
- » ALL
- » LED ZEPPELIN IV Erik Davis
- » BILL WYMAN’S TREASURE ISLANDS Bill Wyman & Richard Havers Sutton
- » BEATS WORKING FOR A LIVING –
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- » EXILE ON MAIN ST.
- » KIDS IN THE RIOT: HIGH AND LOW WITH THE LIBERTINES Pete Welsh
- » BLACK COFFEE BLUES Henry Rollins
- » RAMONES Nicholas Rombes Continuum
- » WHORES: AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF PERRY FARRELL AND JANE’S ADDICTION Brendan...
- » Life after punk
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- » ★TURNTABLES★
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- » Pretty vacuous
- » LOU REED
- » THUNDER Flawed To Perfection – The Video
- » THE STRANGLERS Live ’78 SF Target
- » RARE EARTH Rock ’N’ Roll Greats – In Concert Sanctuary Visual Entertainment...
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- » ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis By The Presleys Sony/BMG Full four-hour-plus, Priscilla-...
- » YES Songs From Tsongas – Yes 35th
- » SOCIAL DISTORTION Live in Orange County Time Bomb Recordings A cracking night...
- » BEACH BOYS Endless Harmony Eagle Vision From surf through sandbox to Smile.
- » JEAN MICHEL JARRE Jarre In China: The Collector’s Edition
- » BERNIE TORME Stratocaster Gypsy Angel Air
- » TV times
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- » EAGLES Hell Freezes Over Never too cold to rock’n’roll.
- » VARIOUS Live At Rockpalast
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- » MEAT LOAF
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- » STEVE LUKATHER
- » HAYSEED DIXIE
- » 13TH DAY FESTIVAL
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- » BLACK SABBATH Aylesbury Civic Centre
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- » CLUTCH Mean Fiddler, London
- » PORCUPINE TREE Batschkapp, Frankfurt
- » LOU REED Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
- » ROLLING STONES Lincoln Center, New York City
- » BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Paramount Theater, Oakland, California
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- » THE HUB
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- » POMPOUS ROCK’N’ROLL QUOTES


