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Rush divide opinion, like all the most iconic artists. There are those who consider the Canadian trio one of the most daring, imaginative, unique and influential rock bands in history. There are also alternative (wrong) opinions, but those need not detain us here. Personally, having opened a portal to Rush’s fantastical world via a borrowed copy of 1981’s Exit… Stage Left album, it’s an honour to welcome the Toronto band to the cover of PR 13, and a pleasure to read Alex Lifeson’s witty, warm-hearted reflections on the group’s incredible four-decade career in our exclusive cover interview. Elsewhere in the issue you’ll find equally revealing articles on Cream, Mötley Crüe, Rival Sons, Thin Lizzy, Terrorvision and more. Something for everyone, surely? Thanks for taking the time to check out the…

Guns N’Roses bassist Duff McKagan has revealed that he has heard “really cool” Axl Rose songs which could feature on a new album from the rejuvenated Los Angeles rock band. Asked by US radio host Eddie Trunk whether rumours of new GN’R material were real, McKagan insisted, “Oh, it’s real.” “I’ve heard some magnificent stuff that Axl has, really cool stuff he’d been working on,” the bassist continued. “So I’m excited about the possibilities with that, of course. I don’t mean to get anybody rabid. [A new Guns N’Roses album] will happen when it happens, that’s for sure.” GN’R guitarist Slash also confirmed the existence of new material in a recent Japanese TV interview. Discussing the possibly of a new Guns album with Planet Rock last year, Slash stated, “I…

Collateral Ramsgate quartet Collateral have crafted a gloriously melodic, radio-friendly sound that will appeal to fans of early Bon Jovi, Little Angels and Skid Row. A remixed version of Midnight Queen from their debut EP, 4 Shots!, is emphatic proof that we have a new UK band with true global appeal. Find out more at: facebook.com/collateralrocks Temple Of One Though they quit Inglorious in October, guitarist Drew Lowe and bassist Colin Parkinson were never going to be quiet for long. Reunited in Temple Of One, with Parkinson taking on vocal duties, the trio’s debut single The Cards is a powerful slice of Stone Temple Pilotsstyle grungy rock. Find out more at: facebook.com/TempleOfOneOfficial Clockwork Wolf & Co Founder of Chapman Guitars, and a popular YouTube personality, Rob Chapman recently expanded his…

SPIRIT OF RADIO PAUL ANTHONY The best thing I’ve heard recently: Demos for the forthcoming debut album from Collateral, which is due in September. I saw them live for the first time before Christmas, and introduced them to a sold-out crowd in Camden a couple of weeks ago. These guys really are the complete package, and bring the fun back to rock’n’roll with some superbly crafted songs. Listen out for Midnight Queen on Planet Rock. The best thing I’ve seen recently: The Sinner season 1 on Netflix. It’s extremely well written, and stars Bill Pullman, and Jessica Biel. If you’re a binge-watcher like me, you’ll definitely want to watch all episodes back-to-back. My favourite Rush memory: Interviewing Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson for the first time in 1985, ahead of…

“WORKING IN A MORTUARY WAS THERAPEUTIC. I LOVED BEING AROUND DEAD PEOPLE.” STRIDING INTO THE LOBBY OF A CENTRAL LONDON HOTEL, HIS slight frame wrapped in a floor-trailing, fur-trimmed Afghan coat, eyes hidden behind designer shades and his long brown hair bouncing in time with the click-clack of his cowboy boots on the marble floor, Jay Buchanan looks every inch a rock star. The 43-year-old California-born musician is midway through a European promotional tour for Rival Sons’ sixth studio album, Feral Roots, a release he considers to be his band’s finest hour. Sipping a £15 shot of malt whiskey in the hotel bar, he’s all old-school manners and easy charm, removing his sunglasses before fielding Planet Rock’s questions with grace and good humour. Before he threw his lot in with…

IT’S NOT EVERY DAY a punk rock icon hammers on your door to demand that you turn down your music. “We’re trying to read!” an indignant Joey Ramone moaned, leaving the members of Terrorvision open-mouthed. It was December 20, 1992 and the Bradford four-piece – vocalist Tony Wright, guitarist Mark ‘Sark’ Yates, bassist Leigh Marklew and drummer Ian ‘Shutty’ Shuttleworth – were about to play their biggest show to date, supporting Ramones, before 5,000 ‘pinheads’ at London’s Brixton Academy. As Da Bruddas’ own Mr Buzzkill lurched away, the volume control on the stereo in Terrorvision’s dressing room was dialled further to the right. “When you’re a kid, playing the Ramones’ records in your bedroom, you’d always get a thump on the floor from downstairs, telling you to turn that bloody…

For much of the 1970s, Canadian power trio rush made challenging prog rock records that confounded non-believers with their howling vocals, sciencefiction stories and references to Greek gods and tolkien. then 1980’s radiofriendly Permanent Waves and its mega-selling followup Moving Pictures propelled them into the rock stratosphere. James mcNair unfolds a tale of crossdressing, heavy drinking, Nasa space launches and three men on a quiet mission to conquer the planet. Portraits: FIN COSTELLO IT’S MARCH 13, 1980… …AND HAVING CHECKED THE TV LISTINGS, UK Rush fans are excited. The Toronto-formed power trio’s new single, The Spirit Of Radio, has charted, and it seems they are to be guests on Top Of The Pops. Rush won’t be touring new album Permanent Waves in the UK until June, and in this pre-MTV,…

THE WILDHEARTS Renaissance Men GRAPHITE “THE ONLY THING I ever understood was to take the bad and to make some good…” These words, sung during a quiet moment in the otherwise bombastic Let ’Em Go, offer a neat summary of not just The Wildhearts’ first album since 2009’s Chutzpah!, but of the band’s overall ethos. Since their frantic beginnings in the early 1990s, some of the most innovative, genre-crunching and truly ecstatic songwriting in British rock history has been shoehorned between break-ups, breakdowns and artistic U-turns. All the time, it’s the music that’s brought them back and the music that’s made everything OK. Last year frontman Ginger revived the band’s ‘classic’ line-up in time for the summer’s successful Britrock Must Be Destroyed tour. Those dates – with Reef and Terrorvision…

JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR Reckless Heart SILVERTONE/SONY Given that blues rock is such a male-dominated genre, it can sometimes seem that women treading the same path struggle to gain the recognition they deserve. In more recent years, however, the times may be a-changing’ – while the likes of Samantha Fish and Beth Hart continue to break through and scoop up awards in the US, Joanne Shaw Taylor is among the women drawing the crowds and proudly flying the flag for British blues. Not that hers has been an overnight success. After taking inspiration from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins in her teens, Taylor released her debut album, White Sugar, 10 years ago, steadfastly building her reputation with subsequent releases and tireless touring. Along the way, no less than Stevie Wonder…

WHITESNAKE Slide It In WARNER MUSIC GROUP BY JANUARY 1984, when Whitesnake’s Slide It In slid into record shops across the UK, bandleader David Coverdale had begun to resemble a character from brilliantly vulgar satirical comic Viz. His saucy rock-star shtick suggested Viz’s Finbarr Saunders And His Double Entendres – just with stretch jeans, a snakeskin belt and more hair Whitesnake were wickedly good fun, but there was, to quote from the title track of their debut LP, “trouble always coming my way”. Sales for Slide It In’s predecessor, 1982’s Saints & Sinners, had stalled, America wasn’t interested, and dear old David’s ego seemed to be growing bigger every day, like a prize-winning melon on a pensioner’s allotment. Something had to give, and Whitesnake’s sixth studio set, Slide It In,…

1 JOE BONAMASSA So unassuming is Joe Bonamassa that last year the New Hartfordborn bluesman stood in line for his own meet-and-greet before a show in London, Ontario and went unnoticed. At the time of going to press, it was unconfirmed whether he actually got to meet himself or get any of his merch autographed. Low-key pranks permitting, Joe returns to the UK in April for four shows, including three nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Brush up on: Joe’s lucky-for-some 13th studio album, Redemption, released last year Fun fact to drop at the bar: Joe owns a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard which he’s named Principal Skinner, after The Simpsons’ head of Springfield Elementary School When: April 22-26 2 UFO The legendary British hard rockers embark on an extensive,…

Luke Morton has been writing about music for 10 years and recently joined Kerrang! as their digital overlord. A fan of ’orrible noises, bloody rackets and often things not considered music, he reviews Slash at Hammersmith Apollo on page 120. Ross Halfin, a world-renowned photographer, has been tirelessly documenting the music world’s greatest artists since the 1970s. In this issue, Ross supplies an exclusive portrait of cross-generational rock star bonhomie at Dave Grohl’s 50th birthday bash. Steve Beebee effectively downed tools at uni when a chance to write for Kerrang! came up. Over 25 years later and he’s still at it – bands that go the extra mile to connect with an audience remain a passion, and he reviews The Wildhearts’ comeback album on page 100. Anthony Ventura is an…

Diamond Head will release a new album, The Coffin Train, on May 24. Metallica’s favourite band are due to play two UK shows with fellow NWOBHM veterans Saxon in October. Living Colour are to tour the UK, playing their debut LP Vivid in full. The dates start at Norwich on July 16, with Wayward Sons and Jared James Nichols in support. Stone Temple Pilots are to play two UK shows ahead of their appearance at the Download festival. The Californian band play Glasgow O2 Academy on June 12 and London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on June 13. Eddie Van Halen has released commemorative trainers to celebrate his band’s groundbreaking debut album. EVH’s 1978 High Top is available now from from www.eddievanhalenstore.com Led Zeppelin have teamedup with Vans to celebrate the…

What food would you cook on a good night in? I don’t get to cook that often as I’m always on the road. But when I am at home I tend to do one-pot type things, so big stews or pot roasts, which all start with garlic, onion and pancetta in a pan. For me, that’s the basis for everything. Also curry–coming from Birmingham it’s expected and my dad is a whiz at them, his rogan josh is amazing. I do enjoy cooking but when I do it tends to be a social thing. Everyone comes round and brings bits so you start to snack and bottles of wine get opened and by the time the food is ready you’re not hungry anymore. But it’s the social aspect I really…

WHO: Slade WHERE: The Palladium, London WHEN: January 7, 1973 Although my parents had taken me to see the Dave Clark Five in the early ’60s, this was my first proper gig. The first band on were a prog rock band called Beckett who did not go down well with the Slade audience: it was like Little Mix supporting Slipknot! Then came Geordie. The lead singer was someone called Brian Johnson, whatever happened to him? They went down a storm and really got the crowd warmed up for the main act. And Slade were magnificent. Noddy Holder was the perfect frontman and had the crowd eating out of his hand. When they did Get Down And Get With It I thought the balcony was going to collapse! We all stood on…

DATE OF BIRTH: 1979 WHEN RETIRED: 1984 WHERE FOUND: Matlock, Derbyshire “I found embroidering my jacket quite therapeutic,” says Peter Maude, now a Mansfield resident. “I got it when I was staying with my grandma: they were advertising Brutus Gold jackets lots on TV at the time. It got retired when I entered the ‘real’ world, butI wore it as fancy dress for a 50th birthday party a few years ago. That was its first outing since my twenties!” WITCHFYNDE “They were from Derbyshire, and I got to see them locally, at the Sutton Centre, and really enjoyed them. The great thing about the NWOBHM was that there were hundreds of bands, and they all played local venues, so I could get there on the bus!” MOTÖRHEAD “This is a…

NIKKI SIXX BORN December 11, 1958, San Jose, California OCCUPATION Bassist Author Radio host Photographer Fashion designer YEARS ACTIVE 1975-present ASSOCIATED ACTS Sixx:A.M. Brides Of Destruction London NIKKI SIXX IS NOT A MAN EASILY FAZED. THE leader of The World’s most notorious Rock Band, a title mötley Crüe gleefully appropriated when issuing their 2001 group autobiography The dirt, the 60-year-old bassist has witnessed scenes of depravity that would have made Caligula blush. yet even he was taken aback when attending an early screening of netflix’s barely fictionalised adaptation of the quartet’s best-selling memoir, not least by the opening montage, which depicts drummer Tommy Lee (played by rapper machine Gun Kelly) performing cunnilingus on his girlfriend at a hollywood party, and a freeze frame of said lady squirting orgasmically across the…

THE CLASSIC ALBUM “IF YOU WERE A GOOD ENOUGH GUITAR PLAYER, YOU COULD JUST DO IT AS A TRIO. IT SEEMED TO ME SO FREE.”ERIC CLAPTON IN THE SUMMER OF 1967, Cream were embroiled in a battle on two fronts, with not just music fans but even the trio’s closest allies doubting their ability to conquer the home front, let alone America. Incredibly, those sceptics included the group’s own manager and executives at their US record company. But when the band unleashed Disraeli Gears in November that year, it changed the fortunes of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker overnight. More crucially, it would transform the ambitions and boundaries of rock music itself. The story had begun in June 1966, when Ginger Baker telephoned Melody Maker one morning and…

American TV (on Formaldehyde, 1993) A sarky dissection of US culture and political hypocrisy, with a killer Mark Yates riff. Alice, What’s The Matter? (on How To Make Friends And Influence People, 1994) Quirky, off-kilter live fave, based around smart rhythmic shifts and a fistful of infectious hooks. Oblivion (on How To Make Friends And Influence People, 1994) The band’s best-known anthem, complete with an off-beat ‘doo-wop’ singalong and a typically surreal Tony Wright lyric. Perseverance (on Regular Urban Survivors, 1996) Irresistible, slippery pop-rock, boasting a pre-chorus memorably namechecking whales and dolphins. We’ve no idea what the lad’s banging on about, to be honest.…

SLASH FEAT. MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2019 Hammersmith Eventim Apollo IT’S HALF an hour until doors open and the thousands of punters queuing outside of Hammersmith Apollo are buzzing as they wait to see hard rock royalty. Before the top-hatwearing one makes his way on-stage, though, Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons do their best to galvanise a crowd seemingly adamant about standing still. Campbell is effortlessly cool, but his Bastard Sons in their matching outfits don’t exude quite the same rock’n’roll attitude, and frontman Neil Starr fails to connect with the sea of bodies before him. Even slotting in two slick Motörhead covers, Born To Raise Hell and Ace Of Spades (dedicated to all members who are no longer with us), isn’t enough to rouse…

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1 Francis nearly became an ice cream man, before the Quo’s breakthrough single Pictures Of Matchstick Men in January 1968. He also worked in an optician’s and as a council gardener. 2 The Jam’s head honcho Paul Weller was a regular at Quo shows in the early ’70s. Weller’s dad knew Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt’s father from their local pub in Woking. 3 Before choosing the name Status Quo, the band considered calling themselves The Muhammad Alis, so they could use the slogan “They’re the greatest”. 4 Disillusioned by Quo’s lack of hits, Rossi and Parfitt secretly tried to form a new group with the Small Faces’ ex-drummer Kenney Jones in 1969. It lasted one rehearsal. 5 Francis claims he didn’t visit a hairdresser for almost 10 years after 1970,…

“I LOVED playing in Humble Pie, but by 1971 the band were leaning towards heavier material. After recording our live album [Performance Rockin’ The Fillmore] I didn’t feel like there was going to be enough creative room anymore for the kind of songs I wanted to write. I wanted to experiment more. Taking charge of my own band was exciting. My third solo album, Somethin’s Happening, didn’t sell as well as the first two, and so I was getting a little worried, but with the Frampton album everything came together. PEOPLE GO NUTS EVERY TIME THEY HEAR THE TALK BOX. I started writing Show Me The Way in Nassau, in the Bahamas. [Humble Pie frontman] Steve Marriott had a cottage on the beach there, and I moved in for three…

This month: PR reader Jazmin L’Amy on AC/DC’s The Razors Edge. I first discovered AC/DC when I was around eight. I used to go to afterschool clubs, as my parents worked late, and at one of these clubs [2003 comedy] School Of Rock was playing on the TV. I was hooked watching that film every day! I bought The Razors Edge when I was 11, in HMV in Jersey, before it shut down. Hearing Thunderstruck got me intrigued: the build-up of the track, with Angus Young’s tapping, blew my 11-year-old mind. It had a little more danger and a harder edge than any other songs AC/DC had done up to that point, to my 11-yearo-ld’s knowledge. My second favourite song at the time was Got You By The Balls. I’ve…

Name is destiny People always ask me, “What’s your real name?” I’m like, (firmly) “Suzi Quatro”. It sounds like a stage name, but it isn’t. Between that and growing up in a city as rock’n’roll as Detroit, I feel like I’m pretty well-equipped. Even as a child I was always gritty and tomboy-ish. My mom told me that’s who I was and don’t be afraid of it. Pay your dues Playing with my sisters in The Pleasure Seekers and Cradle before I was famous meant I was ready when my chance came. The Pleasure Seekers did five sets a night playing all kinds of material and dancing. I had to learn how to entertain that one drunk at the bar who didn’t want to see us. In Cradle, I took…

1 LIVE WIRE (on Too Fast For Love, 1981) The opening track of the band’s debut album is a fierce, feral statement of hooligan intent, with its serrated, punky riff and Vince Neil spitting Sixx’s “I’m hot, young, running free…” lyric. Bonus points for the moody Van Halen-esque middle eight and for Tommy Lee’s sterling cowbell work. 2 SHOUT AT THE DEVIL (on Shout At The Devil, 1983) Cussing out parents, teachers and cops might be a heavy metal trope, but Mötley upped their rebellious ‘bad boy’ image here by actually spitting in the face of The One With Horns on arguably their best-known song. “He’ll be the love in your eyes/He’ll be the blood between your thighs,” promised the ever-poetic Sixx. 3 TOO YOUNG TO FALL IN LOVE (on Shout…

ONE MIGHT IMAGINE that launching a ‘supergroup’ is a complicated business. Not so, according to Steve Stevens, best known as Billy Idol’s iconic guitarist, and now one-quarter of Deadland Ritual, a new Los Angeles-based rock band featuring Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, ex-Guns N’Roses drummer Matt Sorum and former Slash/Scars On Broadway man Franky Perez. “Matt Sorum was the first musician I hung out with when I moved from New York to Los Angeles 25 years ago,” he explains. “We always said, We’ve got to do something together. So when he called me up and said, ‘What would you think about getting together with Geezer?’ I said, When do we start? Now we’ve opened up Pandora’s Box!” Here are eight songs that helped fuel the guitarist’s teenage rock’n’roll dreams. JAMES…

1 BY-TOR AND THE SNOW DOG (on Fly By Night, 1975) “Tobes of Hades lit by flickering torchlight…” So begins Rush’s first ever fantasy epic, a wonderfully preposterous account of a battle between By-Tor (Lee) and Snow Dog (Lifeson). The crazy timesignature changes; the Olympian drum-fills; the growling, treated voices; and chimes that bring things to a close after eight minutes, 37 seconds – what’s not to like? 2 LAKESIDE PARK (on Caress Of Steel, 1975) Neil Peart’s sketch of childhood innocence at a park in the Port Dalhousie suburb of St Catharine’s, Ontario was one that Lee and Lifeson could easily identify with; Peart spent time there as a fairground worker in the summer of 1966. A wistful, tautly arranged song with a magical Lifeson solo. 3 LESSONS (on…

GARY MOORE Corridors Of Power VIRGIN, 1982 SUMMER 1982. What a time to be alive! The Falklands War, Greenham Common, my first attempt at gainful employ ment… Thank God, then, for Gary Moore’s Corridors Of Power I’d just turned 17 and had done a stupid thing, quitting full time education for a menial starter job in the civil service. My parents hoped it was a temporary setback “until you decide what you really want to do”. Alas, my social life was very social, and the job meant more money for records, gig tickets and underage drinking. In the words of mediocre Canadian power trio Triumph (aka the budget-supermarket Rush), “I lived for the weekend.” That still left five days to fill. Days spent in a grim, Kafka-esque office block, locating…

WHITE DENIM FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019 The Roundhouse, London THEY WALK onto the stage to an incongruous blast of Darude’s Sandstorm, a fart of pre-millennial Topshop-techno that is so out of step with the White Denim aesthetic that this must be a particularly arch joke on their part. The Austin, Texas quartet’s true character is much better reflected by the tunes that play over the PA before their headline set, a band-curated playlist of impeccable taste and unforced eclecticism. Tonight it spans the pop brilliance of Robert Palmer’s Johnny And Mary, the deranged proto-punk stomp of The Monks’ Complication and the motorik heavy-rock bristle of Hard Stuff’s Jay Time – tunes that you can now find listed on Spotify under “White Denim House Music”. Following the viral success enjoyed by…

Live without your sunlight, love without your heartbeat… The miners’ strike. Inner city riots. The ‘Milk Snatcher’. Britain in the 1980s could be a cold, dark place. Not, however, for this fabulously glam posse, who were clearly hell-bent on injecting a little razzle-dazzzle into the world of denim and leather. Do these pretty faces look familiar to you? Or better still, did you raid your mum’s make-up bag in order to make like a preening peacock in this collective? Answers to mail@planetrock.com; see page 26 for last issue’s correct answer.…