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Ozzy Osbourne trashed room with dead shark
Monday 07 November 2011
Ozzy Osbourne once soaked a room in shark's blood while on tour with Black Sabbath.
Slash starts second solo album
Wednesday 03 August 2011
Slash has started work on his second solo album.
Mogwai, Roundhouse, London
Monday 01 August 2011
If ever a night was suited to the cathartic strains of Glasgow's premier instrumental rockers, it was this one.
Kelly Osbourne praises parents' love
Tuesday 05 July 2011
Kelly Osbourne thinks her parents are the "definition of true love".
Ozzy Osbourne in tribute to 'dedicated' NHS
Tuesday 05 July 2011
Legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne has paid tribute to the NHS 63 years after it was founded in the year of his birth.
Post Everything: Outsider rock and roll, By Luke Haines
Monday 04 July 2011
Memoir of a not-so-hot property
For those about to rock, we salute you
Sunday 12 June 2011
As 40 years of heavy metal are celebrated in Birmingham, the genre's spiritual birthplace, James McMahon picks out its top players
Andy Murray completes fightback to advance at French Open
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Andy Murray reflected on one of the most emotional victories of his career after defying an ankle injury and the best efforts of Viktor Troicki to book a place in the quarter-finals of the French Open.
Praise the Sabbath: now Birmingham shows its metal
Friday 06 May 2011
Britain's second city gave the world its heaviest sounds. A series of exhibitions celebrates a deafening history
Album: Midlake, Late Night Tales (Late Night Tales)
Friday 01 April 2011
The low-key, chill-out format of the Late Night Tales series of band-curated "mixtape" compilations lends itself well to Midlake, whose selection tracks the fringes where disparate strains of art-rock, folk and folk-rock rub up against each other.
Mike Starr: Bassist and self-destructive founder-member of the Seattle band Alice in Chains
Saturday 12 March 2011
When the grunge band Alice In Chains named their 1990 debut EP We Die Young after the eponymous composition by their guitarist and primary songwriter Jerry Cantrell, it proved sadly prophetic.
London Symphony Orchestra/ Rattle, Barbican Hall
Tuesday 08 March 2011
Another ingeniously apposite piece of programming from Simon Rattle – but this time the Berlin Philharmonic had stayed in Berlin and a long awaited re-match with the London Symphony Orchestra presented two mighty instrumental canvasses as startling in sonic contrast as they were bonded in spirit.
Ozzy Osbourne still has drug 'wobblers'
Friday 18 February 2011
Ozzy Osbourne is still feeling the effects of his drug abuse.
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