Classic Rock Magazine

Amused To Death is Roger Waters’ proudest solo moment and a damning reflection on social disintegration.

Containing her biggest hit and her most controversial song, the Patti Smith Group's third album Easter is a fascinating whole

Having discovered they could harmonise, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead released what many consider to be their most user-friendly album

Recorded in Nigeria as his bandmates deserted him, Band On The Run might just be the best post-Beatles work by any Beatle

In which four Germans and a Brit hook up and invent prog-jazz-rock showtunes

Dismissed initially as Radiohead copyists, Muse were blasted into the stadium-slaying stratosphere by Absolution

The sound of Rush finding their way

Released in 1965, Live At The Regal is the blues equivalent of The Who’s Live At Leeds – an exhilarating, honest account of an artist at the top of their game

Poison were a cheap date, but by the end of the night you knew you'd had a lot of fun

Hailed as a proto-metal classic, Sir Lord Baltimore's debut album is perhaps more 60s than 70s

After turning heads with Pressure & Time in 2011, Rival Sons returned to the studio with a new bassist and a fistful of big ideas

The Grand Illusion was the first of four consecutive triple-platinum albums for Styx, establishing them as one of America’s biggest rock acts

From the ashes of post-hardcore punks At The Drive-In something stirred, and it was proggy

Legend tells us that Captain Beyond were pioneers of stoner rock, a supergroup who should have been super-massive

Sammy Hagar's puffed-up personality oozes from every pore during a short, sharp, scintillating set

Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. is big and bombastic, but you can’t argue with stadium-tooled juggernauts

In which the midwestern rockers rock a little harder than normal, but not everyone is convinced

How could Marillion ever replace Fish, their charismatic and beloved frontman? With relative ease, it transpired

A more serious proposition than many of the Sunset Strip generation, Winger's debut combined melodic hooks with no small amount of technical skill

What happened when Tony Iommi brought two familiar faces back on board for Forbidden, an album produced by an extremely unexpected choice

America's first platinum album was a cultural phenomenon, albeit almost accidentally

Did Velvet Revolver produce an album to do the legacy of Guns N' Roses proud? Or was it just another under-achieving and short-lived side-project?

What do you get if you mix men from Vanilla Fudge, Amboy Dukes and Mitch Ryder’s Detroit Wheels? The first album from Cactus