Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith says had Eddie Van Halen been around when he started playing, he just would have copied him. What would Maiden have sounded like with Eddie? How Tom Petty's "The Waiting" was inspired by Janis Joplin, and are we close to getting a 10th Foo Fighters album?

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Phil Collins' ex has been ordered to get out of his Miami mansion and to take her new husband with her, Chris Jericho talks about what was going on under the stage (in Winnipeg?) at one stop on Van Halen's 2004 reunion tour, and AC/DC teases another song from its upcoming album.

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Kirk and Robert think the writing process for the next Metallica album will be more collaborative than the last, Jimmy Page said that the disappointment we all felt that CDs didn't live up to their promise led to the 1990 Led Zeppelin box set, and David Lee Roth releases a new song in tribute to Eddie VH.

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Rush's album visual designer, Hugh Syme, says that the band's "Exit...Stage Left" live album (released 39 years ago today) was supposed to have an entirely different cover,,,but lawyers, Robert Plant tells the story of why he once proclaimed himself, "a golden god" (and takes the piss out of himself in the process), and Jimmy Page says that the 9th Led Zep album would have gone where none of the others had before.

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Keith Richards compares Mick Jagger to James Brown (who Mick has already outlived by 4 years, btw), Stevie Nicks says she almost died in the days following her 2019 induction and performance at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame gala, and Brian May feels luck to be alive after what he calls "a catalogue of disasters" with his health this year.

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