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Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless. To celebrate their latest album, 
Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, TAPE revisits the history of a music group that became a global movement. 

Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless

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When international superstar Beyoncé wanted some new dance moves for her latest video, she chose little known Mozambique dance trio Tofo Tofo to create the choreography.

When international superstar Beyoncé wanted some new dance moves for her latest video, she chose little known Mozambique dance trio, Tofo Tofo to create the choreography.

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To accompany the release of their first album in 1967, the Doors send their biographies to the press. The bio of their singer Jim Morrison is worth a second look. Full name: Jim Douglas Morrison. Eye color: blue. Parents: dead. Hmm… Really?

The Doors

Why did Jim Morrison lie to the press about his parents being dead?

Rammstein, from their choice of name to their lyrics and dark videos, are out to shock and scare. Their spectacular live performances helped catapault them to the top of their industry. But underneath it all, are they really that different from other major music groups?

Rammstein, from their choice of name to their lyrics and dark videos, are out to shock and scare

Rammstein: Just Like the Beach Boys, Really

How did counter-culture icon Patti Smith get invited to the most hallowed hall of the French republic?

Patti Smith

Apple launched its streaming service in 2015, and to celebrate, the company made their customers an offer they couldn't refuse: three months free subscription. The problem: during these three months, the artists streamed will not receive a penny. But that was without reckoning for Taylor Swift, who published an open letter to the firm on her Tumblr detailing why refusing to pay artists for their work was unacceptable. Apple backtracked. 

Taylor Swift

In the track Godzilla, Eminem hits a record-breaking 7.46 words per second: listening to him is like being hit with a wall of words. But breaking and making records is just a part of Eminem's MO.

Breaking and making records is just a part of Eminem's MO

Eminem

In the 1990s Marilyn Manson got a kick out of upsetting American society. His videos and stage shows were designed to provoke and force the USA to face its cultural contradictions.

In the 1990s Marilyn Manson got a kick out of upsetting American society.

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Old and young, everyone seems to agree that Kate Bush is amazing. TAPE looks into the success of the most discrete and the most creative star in pop. 

Kate Bush

Old and young, everyone seems to agree that Kate Bush is amazing. TAPE looks into the success of the most discrete and the most creative star in pop.

TAPE looks at the relationship between the Red Hot Chili Peppers and on-again-off-again band member John Frusciante, a toxic love affair.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

At a party organized by GQ magazine, Noel Gallagher admitted it: the Oasis secret sauce for success is good old-fashioned plagiarism. How did the greatest rock band of all time manage to copy all the other greatest rock bands of all time - and get away with it?

At a party organized by GQ magazine, Noel Gallagher admitted it: the Oasis secret sauce for success is good old-fashioned plagiarism

Oasis

July 4, 2020. To pay tribute to the doctors on the frontlines of COVID-19, the Japanese consul in New York, Kanji Yamanouchi, performed a Jimi Hendrix-style rendition of the American national anthem. 50 years after his death, the artist has become the patron saint of all apprentice guitarists in the world.

Jimi Hendrix

What if guitar enthusiasts who love Jimi Hendrix have got the wrong end of the stick?

Allegations against R. Kelly have dogged the R’n’B star for decades. With alleged sexual abuse and child pornography, can we still listen to R. Kelly songs?

TAPE: R. Kelly

Death is a theme dear to the hearts of metallers. Some, however, have a more personal relationship with the grim reaper... like the lead singer of Korn for example. TAPE tells his story.

Korn

When Pussy Riot founder Nadezhda Tolokonnikova opened an OnlyFans account, did she betray her punk-feminist values?

Pussy Riot

Céline Dion married her agent. Was it him who made her career or was it the other way around?

Céline Dion

Dave Grohl is the co-author of only one Nirvana song: Scentless Apprentice, on the 1993 In Utero album. Frontman Kurt Cobain said, "I found it a bit stupid." But since the end of Nirvana, Grohl went on to release ten albums with the Foo Fights, wrote 76 songs and had 9 US hits. Not bad for a once-overlooked drummer.

Foo Fighters

Was Dave Grohl's talent ignored in Nirvana?

Since his birth, Keith Richards has been burning the candle at both ends, and yet he's still fighting fit. He's even survived 2016. Is the Rolling Stones guitarist too rocky for The Reaper? Quite possibly... 

Since his birth, Keith Richards has been burning the candle at both ends, and yet he's still fighting fit

Keith Richards

Satanist texts and bloody imagery are standard fare for Iron Maiden. But at the beginning of the 90s, the US government decided to use them in a road safety campaign. Road deaths fell significantly in the space of a year.

Iron Maiden

All his life, Lou Reed spat in the face of the establishment. Politicians, bigots, the self-righteous… All have drawn the ire of the Velvet Underground founder. But he reserved the worst of his contempt for journalists.

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