Today's Day in Rock Stories

Previously Unreleased David Bowie Album Streaming Online

The guitarist had recorded more than 250 riffs onto the handset before it went missing in 2014, but he'd never backed them up. And it meant he wasn't able to bring those ideas to the table as the band wrote Hardwired� To Self-Destruct, which will be released in November.

Hammett tells KISW 99.9: "It was devastating for me. I had to start at zero again while everyone else had material for songs. By the time I got a few ideas flowing and formed, most of the songs were already written."

He forced himself to look on the bright side: "I had to think, 'Okay, I have stuff - but it looks like it's going to make it onto the next album." Hammett recently said he refused to read any online comments about latest track Hardwired. But he did watch the video released this month featuring kids listening to Metallica for the first time.

The new album is the follow-up to their hit 2003 Grammy nominated studio effort "Mechanical Bull" and the new video was directed by Casey McGrath and produced by Josh Levine.

The Death Of A Bachelor Tour will include support from MisterWives and Saint Motel and is set to begin on February 24th at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT.

The guitarist can't discuss the issue in depth because the legal battle over classic track Stairway To Heaven is the subject of an appeal, and may return to court.

A number of Led Zeppelin songs have been subject to ownership claims over the years, and the writing credits on several have been changed as a result.

Page tells the Telegraph: "I do know there's a lot of music where Led Zeppelin has been leant on. We didn't do anything about it - and I wouldn't want to either."

A dozen UK arena dates will begin May 4 at Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena, with Shinedown opening all 16 shows of the spring 2017 trek. "As it's been so long since our last full UK arena tour, we really wanted to get to our fans in as many cities as possible," says bassist and founder Steve Harris. "We're really looking forward to it, especially visiting places we haven't been to for a very long time like Leeds where we haven't played since 2005 and Liverpool where we haven't played since 1990.

During the closer, Young grabbed Williams from the back of the stage and brought him to the front, ensuring that the whole room's attention was on the departing bassist.

Speaking with Yahoo Music, Vig recounted the long road between the first session he did with Nirvana (with Chad Channing on drums) at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, and what they recorded in L.A. some months later, after the band signed with Geffen Records on the strength of those initial sessions. And he stressed that the commerciality of the band's music was no fluke.

"Kurt wanted his band to be very successful," Vig explained. "He was very ambitious. If you've ever looked through any of his notebooks you'd see that he used to make drawings of the band playing these enormo-domes for 100,000 people. And he put together lists of what he was going to do when they were massively successful. He had a pretty intense work ethic when it came to songwriting and rehearsing. Nirvana may have come across as punk slackers, but that's definitely not who they were."

"Tour Of The Universe" is a musical passage through life, time and the world beyond, featuring many new songs as well as classic hits from his work with YES and his collaborations with Vangelis.

Recorded live at XM Radio Studios, Jon's inimitable performance has been crafted with dramatic animation and innovative visuals to create this pioneering concept DVD. Now for the very first time, much to the excitement of Jon's fans worldwide, the audio soundtrack to "Tour Of The Universe" is available digitally! Order it here.

The first time I heard Pantera was their [1994] album Far Beyond Driven. I always feel weird lumping Pantera into the speed metal genre. They were so qualitatively different from anyone else. They occupied their own niche.

The Great Southern Trendkill is so unrelentingly dark. The lyrics of War Nerve are the most unrelentingly evil lyrics you can imagine. They make church-burning Norwegian Satanists sound like Sunday school teachers. It's just that whole vituperative expression of anger and rage. Pantera even managed to be, dare I say it, kind of funky at times. One of the ways they were able to get such a huge guitar sound was because [Dimebag] Darrell double-tracked all his guitar parts.

I got to know Pantera a little too. I was in Dallas in 2002 and had a night off, so I can went to go see Tommy Lee perform. I'd known Tommy for a while, so we were just hanging out afterwards, when Darrell and Vinnie [Paul, drummer] came backstage with a bunch of Hell's Angels. We all started drinking, then went to the strip club which Pantera owned and we had this long, crazy, whiskey-fuelled night.

Richards, 72, is working with music documentary film-maker Julien Temple on the project which has seen him put together a line-up of films, cartoons, music clips and other footage.

Pete Wentz wrote about the video on YouTube sharing how some of the moments he learned most from happened to be experimental. "i remember there was a summer where guns n' roses, terminator 2 and slalom water skiing all met up in my head," he wrote. "it was relentless in the way i thought about them and the way they commingled with each other. i can remember that summer and still in some ways go back and live inside of it because of the way it was so experiential and transformative for me. there is a texture to it."

Initially Fall Out Boy and Hundred discussed how falling and failing makes a person stronger, but from there things kept expanding into the short film and production that became the music video for "Bloom." Wentz added, "sometimes you have to crack the pavement before you can BLOOM."

The trio of vocalist, bassist and keyboardist James Durand, drummer and pianist Steve Hales, along with guitarist Richie Cahill, join Voices From The Fuselage and former Touchstone vocalist Kim Seviour on John Mitchell and Chris Hillman's new label.

Hales says: "There was no discussion to have. We immediately knew that this was where we wanted to go. When I heard back from John and Chris and realised that they liked our songs that was it, we were on a mission.

The short-lived outfit's debut concert will launch on vinyl, CD and digital formats on September 30 under the title Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69.

It features Hendrix along with bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, performing at the first of four historic shows at New York's Fillmore East venue on New Year's Eve 1969 and New Year's Day 1970.

And looking back to when he saw the band at Baggy's rehearsal studios ahead of their first performance, Kramer says he knew the public were in for something special.

He says: "In 1969, Jimi was evolving from the tail end of the original Experience into this new era. I went down to Baggy's to hear the rehearsals and I thought, 'This is just incredible stuff.'

"To hear this new material, for me, was a revelation. Here was a rhythm section that was so solid. Having had the great privilege of recording Jimi's first three albums and have them emblazoned in my memory banks, to be confronted with this new direction was kind of shocking, but a natural progression.

I was a little pothead so I did a lot of bartering and trading albums for pot, but the first rock record I had was Kiss' Hotter Than Hell, but I didn't really pay for it!

The album cover drew me to the record. Looking at the cover on the front I thought it was hideous artwork until I turned it over and saw Gene Simmons sitting in the throne holding a topless girl with a star over her nipple. I thought, 'This is gonna be great!'

English death metal group Ingested, Irish doom trio Dread Sovereign and Portuguese avant-garde rock outfit Sinistro are joined by Hark, Venom Prison, Employed To Serve, Mithras and Infernal Sea as the last bands to be announced for the 12th edition of the festival, which takes place on November 5 at Leeds University Union.