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From the Classic Rock archive: May 2005

Cover of May 2005 issue.

• Page 4
• »  Tommy Vance – 1941-2005
• Page 5
• »  TV CV
• »  TOMMY REMEMBERED
• »  “ I played what I liked .”
• Page 6
• »  Oasis release their sixth studio album, Don’t Believe The Truth, on May 30....
• »  KING DIAMOND KING DIAMOND
• »  “And what do you do?”
• »  Download bill shapes up
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• »  THE BRANDS THAT BUILT ROCK’N’ROLL
• »  Despite rumours to the contrary, Mötley Crüe will not be playing the Download...
• »  STEVE VAI
• Page 8
• »  Bikini kill
• Page 9
• »  SCHOOLBOYS IN DISGRACE ★THE KINKS
• »  Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, whose clients over the years have included Bob...
• »  VAN DER GRAAF
• Page 10
• »  WORLD TOUR ROCK’N’ROLL LANDMARKS Place: The Viper Room.
• »  Ricky Warwick, formerly vocalist/ guitarist with The Almighty, has recorded...
• »  CHEAP THRILLS ★BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING CO.
• »  Don’t Quote Me
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• »  ★OPEN HAND
• »  FRIPP IT UP Justin on his guitar hero.
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• »  BRITAIN’S BEST TRIBUTE BANDS
• »  Paul Stanley of Kiss begins mixing his second solo album next month. The...
• »  Welcome back...
• Page 13
• »  LOS SOULS
• »  Alice Cooper’s new album is likely to be called Dirty Diamonds, on which he...
• »  HATER
• Page 14
• »  ★TASTE
• Page 16
• »  FROM OUT OF NOWHERE
• Page 18
• »  GEEZER BUTLER
• Page 20
• »  SHOOTS TO THRILL: EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY, DON’T IT?
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• »  A7V1111 wadvnl
• Page 27
• »  As Ugly as they wanna be
• Page 26
• »  AIN’T GONNA EAT OUT MY HEART ANYMORE ★ANGEL
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• »  With the release of a comprehensive best-of album and Paul Rodgers’s...
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• »  Koss’ they rock...
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• »  best of times, worst of times
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• »  emporar
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• »  reddie would
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• »  • Are the newly re-formed Vainke t Vain the most underrated
• Page 51
• »  20 years on from Rebel Yelling his way into the charts, and 10 years after...
• Page 53
• »  SHEER CHART ATTACK Billy’s solo hits.
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• »  THE X MEN
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• »  In 1984, Magnum were ready to split. Then they recorded the...
• Page 57
• »  Plant
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• »  STERANKO Culturephrenia
• »  WITHIN TEMPTATION The Silent Force Sanctuary Dutch goth masters eclipse them...
• »  IMPELLITTERI Pedal To The Metal Steamhammer/SPV Peculiar nu-metal dabbling...
• »  BRAINSTORM Liquid Monster
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• »  EELS Blinking Lights And Other Revelations Vagrant Wounded and haunting...
• »  ADEMA Planets
• »  OCEAN COLOUR SCENE A Hyperactive Workout For The
• »  HEAVY TRASH Heavy Trash YepRoc Acoustic rockabilly in excelsis.
• »  TERRY STAMP Bootlace Johnny And The Ninety Nines Burning Shed Seminal punk...
• »  STARBREAKER Starbreaker
• »  RICHARD ANDERSSON’S SPACE ODYSSEY The Astral Episode Regain
• »  CEPHALIC CARNAGE Anomalies Relapse While labelmates Mastodon and The...
• »  CALLISTO True Nature Unfolds Earache
• »  GREEN CARNATION Quiet Offspring
• »  REVEREND BIZARRE In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend Spinefarm With the...
• »  OM
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• »  CORROSION OF CONFORMITY In The Arms Of God Sanctuary COC go back to the...
• »  LIQUIDO
• »  SLUNT Slunt
• »  Moonlighting masterpiece
• »  Q&A Geezer on G//Z/R.
• Page 61
• »  Never enough
• »  Q&A Chip Z’Nuff answers the ?
• »  HANZEL UND GRETYL Schiessmessiah Metropolis Black Forest metal.
• »  PURITY’S FAILURE Extensions Goodfellow Records New England rocks. Who’d have...
• »  NOVAK Forever Endeavour MTM
• »  ASTRAL DOORS Evil Is Forever Locomotive Music Tony Martin lives!
• »  BANG TANGO Ready To Go
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• »  MILLENCOLIN Kingwood
• »  STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Alien
• »  SPITALFIELD Stop Doing Bad Things
• »  CALVIN RUSSELL In Spite Of It All
• »  STILL REMAINS Of Love And Lunacy Roadrunner
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• »  ALUMINUM BABE Vit-ri-fied Velocity
• »  SOCIETY1 The Sound That Ends Creation
• »  STEVE HACKETT & THE UNDERWORLD ORCHESTRA Metamorpheus
• »  THE SECRET Luce Goodfellow Hardcore’s dead end kids The Secret aren’t a
• »  THOMAS Ruby In The Dust Raindrop Records Promising release from NJ rocker...
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• »  ROUND-UP: PROG By Nick Shilton JAMES LABRIE Elements Of Persuasion Inside Out
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• »  ROUND-UP: AMERICANA By Jon Hotten
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• »  SPIDERS & SNAKES Hollywood Ghosts Cleopatra Vince Neil’s pre-Mötley bandmate...
• »  SCHENKER- PATTISON SUMMIT The Endless Jam Continues
• »  STEPHEN PEARCY Fueler
• »  BILLY SHEEHAN Cosmic Troubadour Favored Nations Oh no... bass solo! And lots...
• »  The gospel truth?
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• »  Third time’s a charm
• »  DAYS OF WORTH The Western Mechanism
• »  NEW ORDER Waiting For The Sirens’ Call
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• »  King of pain
• »  KAPTAIN BLACK In Fertility
• »  ACHILLES/ ENGINEER Split
• »  FINAL FRONTIER High Tension Wire
• »  SWIRL 360 California Blur
• »  ROSE TO ADDICTION Rise To Addiction Rise To Addiction Just don’t call this...
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• »  HEADRUSH Headrush
• »  LIESEGANG/ WHITE Visual Surveillance Of Extremities Escape Music Two of...
• »  TEGAN AND SARA So Jealous
• »  ABOVE THE FIRE In Perspective
• »  NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS Hill Country Revue Cooking Vinyl Reserved first...
• »  ROUND-UP: SLEAZE By Sleazegrinder
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• »  Death wishes
• »  FRANKENSTEIN An Ugly Display Of Self-Preservation Fiend Force
• »  KAMELOT The Black Halo
• »  JUNO REACTOR Labyrinth
• »  THE NATIONAL Alligator
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• »  OVERKILL ReliX1V
• »  DISBELIEF 66 Sick
• »  VARIOUS Music From Malcolm In The Middle Restless/Rykodisc Sunny pop...
• »  MOBY Hotel
• »  THE SOUND EXPLOSION The Sound Explosion Captains of Industry Finally, someone...
• »  And other new releases out this month.
• Page 71
• »  Introducing
• »  ‘HETFIELD IS A GOD TO ME’ “It was a defining moment for me when I was...
• Page 72
• »  TALISMAN Five Men Live Frontiers
• »  GRINNING SOULS Capture
• »  FREEDOM CALL The Circle Of Life Fourth studio album from German melodic...
• »  STEVE BARTON Charm Offensive Sleepless Founding member of Translator goes...
• »  BUCKCHERRY Buckcherry
• »  DEAD MEADOW Feathers
• »  RED STAR LINE Red Star Line Pronoia
• »  ROUND-UP: MELODIC ROCK By Dave Reynolds
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• »  FASTLANE New Start Sucka Punch
• »  DEAN HOWARD Volume One
• »  COUSTEAU Nova Scotia Endeavour
• »  VARIOUS iPolicia! – A Tribute
• »  THE SIGHTS The Sights
• »  THE PAT METHENY GROUP The Way Up Nonesuch Comprised of just a single...
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• »  Heavy load
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• »  Free spirits: (l to r) Simon Kirke, Paul THE ROSSINGTON Kossoff, Andy Fraser...
• »  JOE ELY Love And Danger Spectrum Country-rocker’s 1992 album goes mid-price.
• »  ANTHRAX Fistful Of Metal/ Armed And Dangerous
• »  VARIOUS The Roxy London WC2 Castle/Sanctuary A six-disc cellarful of noise.
• Page 78
• »  THREE DOG NIGHT The Complete Hit Singles
• »  PENNYWISE Reissues
• »  YO LA TENGO Prisoners of Love:
• »  FAIRPORT CONVENTION Chronicles
• »  MIDNIGHT FLYER Midnight Flyer
• »  NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS B-Sides And Rarities Mute
• »  REISSUES: Cinderella
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• »  SPEAR OF DESTINY The Best Of
• »  THE NEWLYDEADS Dead End
• »  VARIOUS ARTISTS It Came From
• »  TOYAH Warrior Rock: Toyah On Tour / Love Is The Law Edsel Just say no.
• »  Every picture tells a story
• Page 80
• »  ASIA Then And Now Geffen Veteran AORers given budget reissue of dated career...
• »  MEDICINE HEAD Don’t Stop The Dance Angel Air More unreleased tablets.
• »  VARIOUS Headbanger’s Bible
• »  VARIOUS Time Machine - A Vertigo Retrospective Vertigo
• »  THE STRANGLERS The Raven Let Them Eat Vinyl A ‘79 fan favourite – now
• »  REISSUES: Jethro Tull
• Page 81
• »  THE FALL The Complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004 Sanctuary
• »  THE END
• »  VARIOUS Top Gun CIST Deluxe Edition Sony/BMG
• »  Up on the downside
• Page 82
• »  Songs from the wood
• »  GONG The Flying Teapot Charly Another year, another release for a classic...
• »  TRISTEZA Spine & Sensory
• »  MILES DAVIS A Tribute To Jack Johnson
• »  VARIOUS Vertigo Mixed. . .
• »  BAKER GURVITZ ARMY Live In Derby ’75
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• »  THE DAMNED Strawberries - Deluxe Edition
• »  BRIAN AUGER The Best Of Brian Auger Sanctuary This wheel’s still on fire.
• »  VARIOUS Immediate Mod Box Set
• »  WILCO A Ghost Is Born Nonesuch Records Alt.country goes prog.
• »  KIRSTY MACCOLL From Croydon to Cuba Virgin/EMI Posthumous three-disc set from...
• »  REISSUES: NIGHTWISH
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• »  ★The Who
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• »  Golden balls
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• »  Roll over Beethoven
• »  BOOMTOWN RATS Live At Hammersmith Odeon 1978 Eagle Old-time new-wave Monday...
• »  TESTAMENT Seen Between The Lines
• »  VARIOUS ARTISTS Hoping For Palestine ILC
• »  VARIOUS Trustkill Video Assault Vol. 1
• »  SOULFLY The Song Remains Insane
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• »  SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES The Seven Year Itch Sanctuary Former Susan Ballion...
• »  MIKE + THE MECHANICS & PAUL CARRACK Live At Shepherd’s Bush London Eagle...
• »  VARIOUS ARTISTS Monsters Of Death Nuclear Blast Death, death and more death.
• »  PAT TRAVERS BAND Boom Boom: Live At The Diamond 1990 Cherry Red Films
• »  PROCOL HARUM Live
• »  Every picture tells a story
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• »  CD PORTABLES
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• »  CRADLE OF FILTH
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• »  GOV’T MULE
• »  THE NEW SCHOOL OF ROCK The Glitterati, Hurricane Party and The Black Velvets...
• »  KINO
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• »  DEEP PURPLE Caprices Festival, Switzerland
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• »  DRAGONFORCE/ ANGRA Mean Fiddler, London
• »  KILLING JOKE Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
• »  ASH Marquee, London
• »  THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth You can call them...
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• »  WAYSTED
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• »  DECADENCE St. Moritz, London
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• »  THE BEST EVER BETWEEN-SONG BANTER