Heavy Metal
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Stairway to Heaven There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is goldAnd she’s buying a stairway to heavenWhen she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closedWith a word she can get what she came forOoh, ooh, and she’s buying a stairway to heavenThere’s a sign on the wall, but she wants…
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It is not often that all versions of a song are great. However, Whitesnake’s -Here I go again certainly has 3 great versions of the song. “Hang on” I here you say” Are there not only 2 versions of that song> The 1987 album version and the radio edit version?” No, the original version was…
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Say what you want about Ozzy Osbourne, but he did perform and sing some truly classic Rock songs. He was still a teenager when he joined Black Sabbath and was only 22 when they recorded ‘Paranoid’. As the title suggests, this song is about a man who is paranoid. The driving guitar and bass create…
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I know I am a bit early, it is only early October so why talk about November Rain. I am of course talking about the epic song by Guns N Roses with the title “November Rain” Slash states in his autobiography that an 18-minute version of “November Rain” was recorded at a session with guitarist…
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When you hear “Love is all” you are probably more reminded of something the Beatles may have done rather then a bunch of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal artists. Yet that is exactly who were involved in the creation of this beautiful, colourful even fairytale like tale and melody. The song was released in 1974…
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In today’s edition of ROCKTOBER you get two for the price of ‘One'(see what I did there?) Starting of with Metallica’s epic song “One” Metallica thrashed into the MTV mainstream with this nightmarish tale of a World War I soldier who steps on a landmine and wakes up to find he’s lost his arms, legs,…
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As you can see I renamed October to ROCKTOBER- Throughout the month I shall be posting classic Rock songs and the stories behind them. Starting with Deep Purple’s “Child in Time” It is the 3rd track on the a side of Deep Purple’s classic 1970 album “Deep Purple in Rock” Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan has…
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If Elvis is the King of Rock and Roll, and if Michael Jackson is the King of Pop, then surely Ronnie James Dio must be the King of Heavy Metal. Not only was he the front man in bands like Rainbow, Black Sabbath,Dio and Heaven & Hell, he is also the one who popularized the…
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Growing up in the Netherlands there was a tradition on Good Friday. Every year on Good Friday the Dutch radio would play the ‘Top 100 of all time’, basically the greatest songs ever recorded. The majority would be rock songs. The top 4 would always be ‘Child in Time’ by Deep Purple; ‘Stairway to Heaven’…
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We all know Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, or as the Sith lord Count Dooku. Some of you may even know him as the evil wizard Saruman from the Lord of the Rings. Others may know him as the dentist father of Willie Wonka. Few will know of his real life heroic exploits during World…
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