Robbie asked the group to join his stadium tour, after he discovered their music on BBC Radio 2.

‘When ‘Load’ and ‘Reload’ came out, there was a lot of backlash. But nowadays I run into fans and they love that era.’

Before Patti Smith revived rock ‘n’ roll with Horses she was a poet finding her way in New York City and took up a disastrous job in journalism.

Kirk Hammett has said he has 767 new riffs for the next Metallica album, and thinks the record might see them “go back to the ‘90s again”.

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, the guitar hero who had me hacking away at tablature books in my basement for hours as a middle schooler trying to replicate every finger tap, string bend, and hammer-on, has a bunch of new projects in the queue. Hammett has a new 400-page coffee table book called The Collection: Kirk Hammett showcasing his collection of guitars, which occasioned a visit to the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. During the pod, he gave an update on two new albums that should be of interest to Metallica fans.