Welsh rock band The Alarm followed in the footsteps of their friends U2, rising out of the fertile late 70s UK post punk ...

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Written in 1972 for Floyd’s then in-development eighth studio album, the music that became The Great Gig in the Sky started its life as a sombre organ-based chord sequence, devised by the band’s ...

The band certainly thought so ... the album herself months later when seeing it for sale at her local record store. As the years have passed, so too has the track’s stature in the collective ...

The general store, the post office and the recreation ... He was playing clawhammer banjo in a ragtag band and folks were dancing wildly, swinging each other in circles. A 49-year-old glaciologist ...

I had to put it out of my mind and play”: The epic story of Living Colour, the band that revolutionised 80s hard rock ... I went to an army surplus store and kitted my self out in green fatigues.” He ...

There’s a queue through the store and out the other side of Rough Trade; sauntering to the front for what I think is the beginning of the band in question ... Hancock is work hard-play hard, with huge ...

Over the years, rock bands have their fair share of unexpected products. Revisit four of the oddest bit of rock merch, below.