Henry Yates

Mick Fleetwood arrived in Swinging Sixties London as a dyslexic school leaver and aspirant drummer – and discovered a world of blues, booze, women and global success

Think your plans were disrupted? Ego Kill Talent should have spent last year on the road with Metallica, System Of A Down, Foo Fighters and Faith No More

With Brian Johnson forced to take a step back from AC/DC or face total hearing loss, we ask the experts about the risks for rock fans. Listen up – while you still can…

To those in the know, Happy Chichester is one of the most underrated songwriters of his generation, and he almost joined the Foo Fighters. We tracked down the cult hero from Columbus, Ohio

Now bolstered by the songs and shriek of new frontman Glenn Hughes, The Dead Daisies are a supergroup to take seriously

In 1987, the ‘real’ GN’R bottled the mayhem of the Sunset Strip on their classic debut album Appetite For Destruction. Ousted drummer Steven Adler tells all

Alice Cooper picks the ten songs that provided the soundtrack to his life

How Billie Joe Armstrong wrote Green Day's game-changing three-minute classic Basket Case in a basement surrounded by pizza boxes

By tapping into the worries and hopes of ordinary people, The Moody Blues became a phenomenon. But a vital part of the band’s inspiration came from tapping into some mind-expanding chemicals

How Owner Of A Lonely Heart saved “old farts” Yes from the scrap heap turned them into unlikely MTV darlings

Former Motorhead man Phil Campbell on his family band, the tyranny of politicians, and what Lemmy would have made of the pandemic

Foghat are in that select group of Brit bands with US hits who never had any success at home. Their defining moment came with this mid-70s single about rock'n'roll mainstay S-E-X.

From the archive: Leslie West talks about dropping acid at the Fillmore, kicking methadone with Johnny Winter and missing Jack Bruce

Many were longlisted, but this is the final selection – the best rock songs of the 21st century thus far, as voted for by you

With Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH joining the likes of Metallica, My Chemical Romance and Limp Bizkit in California, Aftershock 2021 is officially next year’s most mouthwatering US rock festival

With themes of war, madness and nuclear holocaust, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid remains the ultimate difficult second album. Fifty years on, we remember how it razed the rock’n’roll landscape

From interactive fan-only concerts to hook-ups with your favourite artists, the redesigned Show4me music interaction network is breaking down the barriers

Session ace Michael Landau on punk-jazz, pubbing with Rod Stewart, and pranks with “foul-mouthed” Steve Lukather

For some, it never gets better than the beginning: here's 10 bands who never improved on their debut albums

Late Chicago powerhouse Howlin' Wolf was equal parts transcendent and terrifying. These are the releases that will blow down your house

From Mississippi roots to wilderness years and redemption, John Lee Hooker always played the blues his way. Here are the albums that go boom boom