Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson has said that "Punk was rubbish".
The singer made the comments to The Guardian in an interview conducted by fellow Sonisphere line-up addition Frank Turner, saying that the closest the "art establishment" ever came to embracing metal was through punk. "The reason they embraced punk was because it was rubbish and the reason they embraced rubbish was because they could control it," said Dickinson.
When Graeme Thomson sent us his interview with Eric Clapton, it was not, to be honest, quite what we expected. We anticipated a poignant chat about Clapton’s old friend JJ Cale, to tie in with the forthcoming tribute album, “The Breeze”. As it transpired, though, the album was just a jumping-off point for one of the most unexpected and revealing Clapton pieces most of us can remember.
Cliff Richard reportedly told his audience that Morrissey is ill and in hospital during a free headline show in New York on Saturday night (June 21).
Sir Cliff played at The Gramercy Theatre after his Morrissey support show was cancelled. Ticket holders for the original show at Brooklyn's Barclays Centre were let in as a priority at what was the singer's first US date since 1981.
Eric Clapton, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Bob Dylan and Shane MacGowan all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated August 2014 (Take 207) and out today (June 24).
Robert Plant has confirmed details of his new album, lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar.
The album — which has been recorded with The Sensational Space Shifters — will be released on September 9 on Nonesuch / Warner Bros. Records.
