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Police - When the Police reunited in 2003, Copeland: "It was sad" – Video

The drummer looked back on the 2003 reunion on the occasion of the English band's induction into the Hall of Fame

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Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd: the album most hated by Waters and Gilmour

The story of the English band's most controversial album. Or: how a masterpiece can be despised by its own creators...

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Lucio Battisti - Battisti and Mina, the magic couple of Italian song – Video

History, songs and TV appearances of the magic couple of Italian music

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Beatles - Who's still alive among the characters on the "Sgt. Pepper's" cover?

The story behind the Fab Four's iconic ensemble cover art, and a "tally" of the survivors, sixty years on

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Cure - Robert Smith on the BBC: "The new album is already done. And the third one will be pop and bright"

On BBC 6 Music, the frontman revealed the English band's future plans following their comeback with "Songs Of A Lost World" in 2024

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Lucio Dalla - When someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Dalla on stage: "It's the fault of whoever put it into singers' heads that they're Che Guevara"

At the height of the political tension of the '70s, the Bolognese singer-songwriter too found himself in danger on stage, during a concert in Milan

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Pink Floyd - The disastrous tour that gave birth to a masterpiece by Waters and co.

Kicking off on 23 January 1977 at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, the "In The Flesh Tour" stood as one of the most important, and at the same time most troubled, chapters in Pink Floyd's history

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Radiohead - Thom Yorke remembers when he first heard Nirvana

Thom Yorke recalled how he felt the first time he heard Nirvana's "Nevermind"

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On the side of the natives - When De André advised Dylan not to sing in Genoa

The story of when Faber gave up appearing at an event with the bard of Duluth, in order to stand by his support for Native Americans

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Live on the Train - When The Cure Played on the Orient Express – Video

On tour, bound for Italy, Robert Smith and co. found themselves caught up in a truly special "live" show

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Pop at risk of being banned - When "Blasphemous Rumours" defied the BBC's censors

In the midst of a sonic evolution and determined to face down the outrage of the prudish, Gore and co. even took on state television

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The frontman's peak - Led Zeppelin, the song Robert Plant called his finest performance ever

Led Zeppelin's former frontman has named what he considers his own unmatchable performance

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His free song - When Lucio Battisti was censored by the Caudillo

Long (and wrongly) branded in Italy as a right-wing artist, the singer-songwriter from Lazio faced his harshest censorship under Franco's regime in Spain

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The Nirvana-R.E.M. connection - When Kurt Cobain met Michael Stipe: the story of a special friendship

An intense relationship, built on artistic kinship and sincere friendship, bound together the frontmen of R.E.M. and Nirvana. Until that tragic day of April 8, 1994

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The crucial influence - When Nick Cave discovered King Crimson's "violent eruptions"

The Australian singer-songwriter explains why Fripp and co. were decisive for his style

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The ex-Beatle's crowning achievement - The album McCartney called the "The Dark Side Of The Moon" of the 21st century

Long fascinated by Floydian psychedelia, in 2014 the ex-Beatle spotted an unlikely heir

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Berlin's Dirty Trick - When David Bowie Stole Frank Zappa's Guitarist

One of the most legendary musician "heists" in rock history, played out on a Berlin night in 1978

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U2 in the '90s - The Depeche Mode song Bono wished he'd written

In the period when the Dublin band edged toward the '90s electronic rock of Gahan and co., one track bewitched the frontman

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Chaos in Vienna - When a Rolling Stones Concert Ended in 154 Arrests – Video

An episode that captures the more turbulent side of the '60s, when concerts became a battleground of tension with the crowd

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In Memory of Syd Barrett - The lost Pink Floyd song that was released by Marianne Faithfull

A song too intimate and personal to be released. Until it found its voice in the singer of "Sister Morphine"

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Elective Affinities - When Genesis won over John Lennon with their "most psychedelic record"

The story of the hidden ties between the Beatles and one of English progressive rock's great institutions

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The Ghost In You - When Siouxsie dedicated a song to the youths of Tiananmen Square

The story of the only "political" song of the Banshees era: a poignant ballad in memory of the victims of Tiananmen Square

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The decisive journey - When U2 found their way out in the desert

The story of the desert journey that would change the course of the Dublin band's history forever

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A memorable set - When CCCP landed on Rai2 for a historic live performance – Video

It was 1988 when a very different Rai from today's opened its doors to a subversive performance by the Emilian band