Articles by Dave Everley

Dave Everley has been writing about and occasionally humming along to music since the early 90s. During that time, he has been Deputy Editor on Kerrang! and Classic Rock, Associate Editor on Q magazine and staff writer/tea boy on Raw, not necessarily in that order. He has written for Metal Hammer, Louder, Prog, the Observer, Select, Mojo, the Evening Standard and the totally legendary Ultrakill. He is still waiting for Billy Gibbons to send him a bottle of hot sauce he was promised several years ago.

Articles by: Dave Everley

A portrait of Brian May and Jimi Hendrix playing onstage

"I have never heard a sound like that, before or since": In 1967, Queen’s Brian May was an unknown student. Then he booked Jimi Hendrix to play his college for £1000 and his life changed forever

By Dave Everley last updated 10 July 24

A pre-fame Brian May got to watch Jimi Hendrix play a student ball from 10 feet away

Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott and AC/DC’s Brian Johnson and Angus Young

“We used to cover Problem Child in the early days. We did it two or three times in front of an audience”: we got Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott to pick his ultimate AC/DC setlist

By Dave Everley published 6 July 24

From big hitters to deep cuts, this the perfect AC/DC setlist according to Def Leppard singer and AC/DC megafan Joe Elliott

"Lars smiled: 'What do you think?' 'You need more guitar solos, that’s for sure.'" How Metallica kickstarted thrash metal and changed the game forever with a "sloppy" little demo track called Hit The Lights

By Dave Everley published 3 July 24

With Hit The Lights, Metallica found their first signature song and a track that'd have a profound effect on heavy metal's evolution

Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark Live

“The jollity can’t undercut the impact of the music”: Marillion’s An Hour Before It‘s Dark: Live In Port Zelande

By Dave Everley published 23 June 24

Pandemic-era masterpiece brought vividly to life with additional material.

Sebastian Bach in a convertable car in the desert

"The more I listened to 18 And Life and Youth Gone Wild, the more I knew that these songs were meant for me to sing": Sebastian Bach looks back on his extraordinary life

By Dave Everley published 14 June 24

He played clubs and guzzled beer at 14; fronted Skid Row and got hit records, star friends, a taste for coke and the sack; then things got really interesting

Papa Roach with Jacoby Shaddix holding a Molotov cocktail

“I was in a bad place. The booze, my lifestyle, this woman I’d been with since I was 16. I’ve never been that broken”: how Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix pulled himself back from the abyss

By Dave Everley published 9 June 24

Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix nearly didn’t make it through the recording of his band’s 2012 album The Connection. But it was the wake-up call he needed

Lemmy of Motorhead backstage at the 2013 Golden God awards

“I’m surprised I made it this far. People were giving me 10 minutes to live when I was 30”: two years before he died, Lemmy was still one of rock’s great warriors

By Dave Everley published 8 June 24

In 2013, two years before his death, legendary Motörhead frontman Lemmy looked back on a life on rock’s frontline

"It was very British, but it shot round the world. It changed music": How the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was born, by those who were there

By Dave Everley published 6 June 24

In the late 70s, rock music was given a steel-booted kick up the backside by a new breed of band. The NWOBHM would go on to rule Britannia – and the world

"Humanity is just a failure. Humanity is just waiting to end humanity": Kerry King has a new solo album - he also has things to say

By Dave Everley published 5 June 24

Slayer guitarist Kerry King on his old band, his new band, his new solo album, humanity’s failure, and the pressure of going solo

Duff McKagan: Tenderness Live In Los Angeles cover art

"As unvarnished and unshowy as a multi-millionaire rock star can get": Duff McKagan keeps it intimate on Tenderness Live In Los Angeles

By Dave Everley published 2 June 24

GN’R bassist Duff McKagan scales things down on solo live double album

"Not quite rock, not quite prog, not quite metal, but simultaneously a little and none of each": The Anathema albums you should definitely listen to

By Dave Everley published 29 May 24

Hailed as heirs to classic Pink Floyd before their hiatus, much-missed Liverpudlian rockers Anathema had a unique, commanding catalogue

“Nothing sounded like it at the time. Nothing sounds like it now. It’s a beast!”: meet the doom metal legend who obsessively collects vinyl versions of Black Sabbath‘s debut album

By Dave Everley published 25 May 24

Candlemass bassist Leif Edling owns way more copies of Black Sabbath’s debut album than you

"It was unbelievable. Every second was an inspiration": How a single show rejuvenated the Scorpions and sent them on the path to superstardom

By Dave Everley published 21 May 24

With two members “smashed after touring”, the Scorpions‘ career was wobbling. Then the Love At First Sting album turned them into global icons

“It was an intense process being in this band. By the end, everyone was, like, ‘I don’t need to see you again, ever’”: the rise, fall and spectacular resurrection of Faith No More

By Dave Everley published 19 May 24

How Faith No More’s brilliant 2015 album Sol Invictus completed the most unlikely comeback of the 21st century

AC/DC’s Angus Young performing onstage at the Veltsin Arena in Gelsnekirchen, Germany

“The comeback few expected but everyone wanted”: AC/DC’s Power Up tour – the first review

By Dave Everley published 18 May 24

AC/DC kicked off their first tour in eight years with a show in Germany. We were there

“Life is to be lived, and lived well… there’s a feeling of carpe diem across the whole album”: Big Big Train loaded Grand Tour with intergalactic ambitions

By Dave Everley published 17 May 24

Inspired by journeys across 250 million years, Gregory Spawton and the late David Longdon intended the band’s 12th album to be bigger in scale than anything they’d done before

Kerry King's From Hell I Rise: The best Slayer album Slayer never made

By Dave Everley published 17 May 24

On solo album From Hell I Rise Kerry King sounds like he's having more fun than he had in years with his old band

A montage of Freddie Mercury, Kurt Cobain, David Bowie and Jim Morrison

The first and last lyrics sung on record by 20 legendary bands

By Dave Everley published 10 May 24

From The Beatles and Bowie to Freddie Mercury and Kurt Cobain and, these are the first and last lines sung on record by rock’s biggest bands

"We were like, ‘These guys are just like us, this is crazy! We want to hack things up with machetes with them!’” Members of Metallica, Megadeth, Ghost and more talk the years that made Slayer into the ultimate thrash icons

By Dave Everley published 10 May 24

Slayer might not have been the first band in thrash metal, but they became the genre's ultimate champions

“I’ve been writing these pieces over the years… I thought, ‘They sound pretty good.’ Then you end up rewriting half the stuff!” Oliver Wakeman’s Anam Cara began in 2002

By Dave Everley published 10 May 24

Celtic-themed album, featuring Hayley Griffiths and, Troy Donockley, is spiritual successor to his collaboration with Steve Howe

David Gilmour, Syd Barrett and Roger Waters

The Pink Floyd solo albums you should definitely own

By Dave Everley published 7 May 24

Freed from the rivalry and constraints within Pink Floyd, the band members held nothing back on their solo endeavours – and here are their best albums

"It's such a limiting genre": After three albums of blues-rock, the Kris Barras Band have ramped up the heaviness

By Dave Everley published 6 May 24

Kris Barras on the people in power, top advice from Billy Gibbons, and being a "Poundshop version" of Richie Kotzen

“Some of our peers thought, ‘Are they going to be corporate sell-outs?’ I don’t know if was jealousy or a feeling of betrayal”: the rise, fall and return of Soundgarden

By Dave Everley published 5 May 24

In 2014, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil sat down with Metal Hammer to look back over his band’s rollercoaster career

"I didn't do a thing in the music industry until I was twenty-nine": Billy Morrison is a success story 30 years in the making

By Dave Everley published 29 April 24

Taking time out from playing with big names, Billy Morrison has made an album of his own, with Ozzy and more guesting

"People used it to mourn to": In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, one song captured the mood of a nation and turned Live into unprepared superstars

By Dave Everley published 25 April 24

Live's heartfelt anthem became a beacon and spirited Throwing Copper to the top of the charts: Not bad for a small-town band from Pennsylvania

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