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Watch Rush debut new live line-up with powerful rendition of Finding My Way at the Junos
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Toyah and Robert Fripp return with their most disturbing Sunday Lunch video yet
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Guns N' Roses keyboardist Melissa Reese bows out of World Tour due to "personal reasons"
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America's 250th birthday will be celebrated at a concert headlined by a hologram of Charlie Daniels
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Latest Classic Rock News

Watch Rush debut new live line-up with powerful rendition of Finding My Way at the Junos
By Jerry Ewing published
"It's the only song we know how to play," quos Alex Lifeson as Rush open this year's Juno Awards in Canada with Finding My Way, the first song from their self-titled debut album

Toyah and Robert Fripp return with their most disturbing Sunday Lunch video yet
By Fraser Lewry published
Quick! Somebody fetch the bug spray!

Guns N' Roses keyboardist Melissa Reese bows out of World Tour due to "personal reasons"
By Fraser Lewry published
Melissa Reese became the first female member of Guns N' Roses when she joined the band a decade ago

America's 250th birthday will be celebrated at a concert headlined by a hologram of Charlie Daniels
By Fraser Lewry published
The show will take place at the home of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)

Jimmy Page releases previously unheard home demo version of Led Zeppelin's Ten Years Gone
By Fraser Lewry published
More light has been shed on the origins of Led Zeppelin's most melancholy song

Watch Zakk Wylde in emotional video for Black Label Society's Ozzy Osbourne tribute
By Stef Lach published
Zakk Wylde and Black Label Society release video for Ozzy's Song – their touching tribute to the late Prince of Darkness

No plans for new Pantera music, but Charlie Benante wants live album
By Stef Lach published
Pantera reunion drummer Charlie Benante hopes a live album will be released to document the controversial comeback
Latest Classic Rock Features

Just two examples of when Rush took being Rush too far
By Philip Wilding published
One track from Moving Pictures and one from Vapor Trails illustrates the trio’s habit of getting too clever in the studio, then suffering for it later

King Crimson’s rock star moments: A unique marriage proposal, a food fight and an adult movie soundtrack
By Sid Smith published
John Wetton recalled a unique proposal in Italy as he argued that the band had plenty of edgy adventures – they just didn’t get caught

How early 90s mega-tour Clash Of The Titans put thrash metal in arenas – and invented ‘The Big 4’
By Rich Hobson published
Starring Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, Clash Of The Titans was one of the most important tours in metal history

How Cinderella made one of the most epic ballads of the hair metal era – with help from the Rolling Stones’ producer
By Dave Ling published
Cinderella hit big with one of the greatest weepies of the glam metal era

The rise, fall and resurrection of Bauhaus, the goth godfathers who hated being called a goth band
By Chris Roberts published
Bauhaus can lay claim to being the founding fathers of goth

Twelve months of chaos, carnage and controversy that turned Guns N’ Roses into rock’s biggest band – and nearly killed them
By Jon Wierderhorn published
In 1989, GN’R released a hit EP, supported the Stones and almost split up
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show
By Matt Mills published
Supported by Nails, Exodus and Carcass, the German thrash metal luminaries reach a new level of pageantry

Todd Rundgren delights some and confounds others on A Wizard, A True Star
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Aided by magic mushrooms and a newly built studio, Todd Rundgren sets out to chart "the chaotic musical element” in his head

Suzi Quatro refuses to dim the lights on 18th album Freedom
By Everett True published
Freedom is Suzi Quatro's third album in collaboration with son LR Tuckey

The Expanded Edition of Van Halen's 5150 is bigger but not necessarily better
By Hugh Fielder published
Exit Dave, enter Sammy, and Van Halen's first No.1 album

Opeth's Blackwater Park: A mesmerisingly brilliant prog-metal album’s quarter-century celebration
By Dan Peeke published
In which Steven Wilson helps Opeth emerge from the musky cocoon of their darker 90s albums with a wider and brighter sound

Melissa Auf der Maur's 90s rock memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a frank, fearless and fabulously revelatory read
By Paul Brannigan published
You won't read a better '90s music biography than former Hole / Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur's new memoir






