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So what's the deal with both Joe Bonamassa and Queen celebrating anniversaries this weekend? Well we're indebted to Wrinkly The Silver (who by the way took in JB with surprisel guest Bernie Marsden at Brighton last night) for pointing out that this weekend marks the 40th Anniversary of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. With over 6.5 million copies sold worldwide to date, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is one of the world’s most well known songs and so deservedly is our Track of The Day. And as for Joe - well the guitar legend fulfils a promise that he made 10 years ago and performs a special concert tonight at Mr. Kyps in Poole, Dorset - the same venue where he played his first ever UK concert back in 2005! And if you're lucky enough to be going tonight then please give us a shout!

The Short and Curlies Band are a four piece mainly covers band playing pubs, clubs and functions around South London and North Kent. Originally a duo - Colin on guitar/vocals (Short) and Paul on guitar/harmonica (Curly) - joined up last year with former members of '3AM' - Nathan (bass/vocals) and Mike (drums) to create both a bigger sound and a wider repertoire of songs - resulting in an upbeat style and a wide variety of material from 50's rock and roll right up to current hits plus original material. Not just a tribute band, nor just a covers band - but a group of dedicated musicians offering their own treatment of a wide range of music plus the songwriting of John and Colin!

The Wildhearts are set to tour later this month, including the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London, on Friday 25th September playing the classic 'P.H.U.Q.' album in its entirety! ‘P.H.U.Q.’ was released in May 1995 and crashed into the UK Top Ten Album Chart at number 6. The album spawned two Top 40 hit singles, 'I Wanna Go Where The People Go' (today's Vid Of The Day) and' Just In Lust', which reached numbers 16 and 28 respectively! Support will be from the recently reformed Baby Chaos plus Ginger’s brilliant new band and side-project (pictured) Hey!Hello!

The Blues Club Podcast is back as our Track Of The Day with another two hours of non-stop Best in Blues with More Music and Less Chat with new and pre-releases, UK Independent Blues Broadcasters Association(UK IBBA) Presenters Picks for August 2015, Blues, Rock, Soul, Funk and some classic Rock oldies from the loft! Tracks this week include Albert Cummings, Rory Gallagher, Dan Burnett, Samantha Fish, Vintage Trouble (pictured), Albany Down, Thorbjørn Risager, Clarence 'The Blues Man' Turner, Lara and The Bluz Dawgz, D'mar & Gill, Jesse Davey, Jay Stollman, Wily Bo Walker, Richard Townend & The Mighty Boss Cats, Mick Kolassa, Billy Walton Band, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, Buddy Guy, Trevor Sewell, Rusty Wright Band, Sonny Landreth, Blues Engine, Ronnie Earl, Bob Malone, Rebecca Downes, D.L. Duncan, B. B. & The Blues Shacks and more!

Well Ramblin' Man has finally arrived and after all the rain we had yesterday we hope that our WRC advance party do not get too muddy today! Anyway watch out for tweets from our intrepid WRC reporters Wrinkly The Silver and Mr. Rockrpix John Bull during the day which should hopefully nclude coverage of Blue Oyster Cult, Saxon, Dream Theater, Scorpions (still our Track Of The Day), Pendragon, Haken, Anathema and Camel! In the meantime we continue our Sunday countdown with the Classic Rock Stage at 6.55pm and Seasick Steve our Vid Of The Day!

As promised yesterday, The Marshman certainly delivered on his Blues On The Radio show last night. So prepare to be lambasted with today's Track Of The Day with tunes from Celluloid, Charles Sayles and The Blue Disciples, Diane Durrett, Jared James Nichols(pictured), Jesse Davey and Friends, Kern Pratt, Michael Falzarano, Mick Pini, Mighty Sam McClain, Mike Vernon, Mississippi Fever, O'Donel Levy, Pinetop Perkins, Storm Warning, The Juke Hounds, Johnnie Johnson, Universal Blues Band, Wink Burcham, Zkye Blue and another brand new track from The Mighty Mojos!

For the second year running the WRC are delighted to welcome Strongbow Extra Cold as our BluesRockfest stage sponsors. So make sure you support them by ordering a Strongbow Extra Cold on the big day. In the meantime our Track of The Day is another chance to hear our BluesRockfest Wrinklycast preview - not as tasty as Strongbow Extra Cold - but well worth a listen. For ticket information on all the bands that are playing at this year's BluesRockfest simply go here and remember if you are a WRC member just go here where you can get a £3 discount on your ticket!

Exactly one month to go now until ZZ Top and special guests Thunder (see our 2011 High Voltage Vid Of The Day) play Wembley Arena. And the WRC are hoping to meet up for a beer before the gig with our friends from 'The North' including Route 66 presenter Rory Auskerry. Needless to say we tweeted Rory to request a ZZ track on his show tonight and he tweeted back "Just try and stop me!" So make sure you listen to Pure Radio 107.8FM here between 6pm and 8pm! And if you're also going to the gig then drop us a message below!

If a picture can paint a thousand words then today's Vid Of The Day must take us into the stratosphere. RIP B.B.

For those of you new to Leogun - they were pulling up trees at festivals all summer in 2013 from Danson Park to Hyde Park and after 38 years of gigging there wasn't a lot that got the WRC juices flowing making us sit up and go wow! This talented 3-piece band from South-East London - including guitarist/vocalist Tommy Smith, a Robert Plant lookalike/soundalike and drummer Michael Lloyd with his Bonhamish hat - fired off Zeppelin trait repetitive riffs linked to a modern feel that added to the freshness of their sound. Anyway, the band rounded 2013 off with a storming Underworld, Camden, gig (see Wrinkly pictured with bass guitarist Matt Johnson) but we missed their tour with Extreme last year so were delighted to see that they were supporting the mighty Skynyrd at the Hammersmith Apollo this Thursday - hence they are our Video Of The Day!

Our Lynyrd Skynyrd review is on its way but in the meantime have a look at our cracking photo gallery here from Thursday night. We've also upated our 'Video Of The Day' with support band Leogun and their amazing anthem 'Everyday'. Enjoy.

Yes it's Canadian Music Week and you can watch here tonight at 1am (UK time) live streaming of Canadian singer/songwriter Sam Olson's performance at Toronto's 'Johnny Jackson' venue. Lasting forty minutes, Sam will be covering a number of genres including Rock so we hope to see you on the viewers list!