Nikki Sixx offers his own take on the Mötley Crüe drama

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Working-class struggle is not capital’s remainder, but its impetus.

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When Black Sabbath regularly covered Smoke on the Water – and unwittingly inspired Spinal Tap's Stonehenge

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