Classic Rock Magazine

Of all their records, Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, released in late 1971, remains their most admired work

Timeless Flight: The Steve Harley album that followed the one with the big hit on it

Mr. Mister released four slickly produced albums. Three bombed. Welcome To The Real World certainly didn't

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young may have harmonised beautifully on Déjà Vu, but they avoided each other while recording it

In which Marc Bolan adds some R&B to T. Rex's glam template and opinions have been divided ever since

Robert Cray's 1986 album Strong Persuader album took blues to the masses and sold more than two million copies in the US

Buoyed by the success of breakthrough album Don’t Say No, Billy Squier teamed up once again with Queen producer Reinhold Mack to create 10 tracks of state of the art, radio-friendly pop rock

The NWOBHM was a broad church, and Demon's second album The Unexpected Guest was more melodic than most

Discovered by Gene Simmons and sold as a more wholesome alternative to Kiss, Angel's stage show was equally theatrical, but their music was a mix of pomp and prog

Released at the height of hair metal, Kingdom Come's debut album made waves for its startling resemblance to Led Zeppelin

Goodnight L.A. was meant to be Magnum’s big chance to break America, but eventually wasn't released there at all

Featuring stellar duets with Tom Petty and Don Henley, Bella Donna established Stevie Nicks as a star in her own right, away from the Fleetwood Mac soap opera

Grace Slick and Marty Balin were gone but Jefferson Airplane had Jane, an AOR landmark, and riffs from Craig Chaquico that would guide the band into the gleaming 80s

The double-platinum Flirtin' With Disaster was the second album from the triple-guitar southern rock band from Jacksonville who weren't Lynyrd Skynyrd

Harder... Faster was the eighth studio album by Canuck rockers April Wine, and spent the best part of a year on the US album chart

Van der Graaf Generator's fourth album Pawn Hearts sums up all that is glorious and bewildering about the band: unconventional vocals, confrontational music, and the unruly spectre of jazz

An object of both affection and derision, Canada's Anvil made the NWOBHM-friendly Metal On Metal in 1982: It gave them an international audience and their most iconic song

Released in 1970, Elton John's Tumbleweed Connection was a concept album themed on Wild West Americana with flavours of country and blues

One thing we can all agree on, surely: that inner gatefold is one of the great photographs in rock'n'roll