Kevin Murphy

Loosely based on Judas Priest, Rock Star saw Hollywood trying to make a metal movie – but does it deserve the hate it gets?

In 2007, Classic Rock challenged the legendary David Crosby to an epic game of word association. Cue tales of women, drugs, prison, liver transplants and ex-bandmates

One guitar legend plays tribute to another

Foo Fighters mainman Dave Grohl and drummer Taylor Hawkins revisit the band’s first five albums

“It’s a mish-mash, an amalgam of lunatic ideas” - Sir Alan Parker, director of the movie version of Floyd’s masterpiece The Wall

Pamela Des Barres on encounters with Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Keith Moon, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix and more

From Mafia finales to Arnold Schwarzenegger: the brilliant and often bizarre and afterlife of Journey’s Don't Stop Believin'

Stephen Stills recalls his encounters with Mick Jagger, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Spike Lee and more

When he wasn’t manning the punk barricades, Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones liked to kick back with… soft rock?!

Picking up where their heroes The Doors left off, roots-punk firebrands X documented California’s dark underbelly in the late 70s

For 50 years Rodney Bingenheimer has been a DJ and one of LA’s scenesters. He knew Elvis and helped countless musical careers, but is first and foremost a fan

Keyboard player and filmmaker Ray Manzarek was the beating heart of The Doors long after they split

In the early 80s, LA’s rock scene was split – on one side were the punks, and on the other the metalheads. We look back on the prejudice and aggression that fuelled the battle of Los Angeles

The original Hollywood Vampires were the ultimate 70s hellraisers. Four decades on, Vampire-in-chief Alice Cooper has resurrected them with help from Joe Perry and Johnny Depp.

The life and times of Kim Fowley: producer, writer, singer, Svengali, and musician

With new DVD Feast Of Friends on the horizon, in a CR exclusive we bring together the two surviving members of The Doors – for the first time in a decade.

In 2013, the Foo Fighter man made a film doc about Sound City Studios- where Nirvana recorded Nevermind. He explained to Classic Rock what motivated him

He turned down Velvet Revolver, nearly joined Led Zeppelin, saw his future play out onscreen in the movie Rock Star. His name is Myles Kennedy, and his story’s only just begun...

In 2005, Classic Rock met Kim Fowley, the singer, songwriter, producer, party animal, svengali and self-styled "piece of shit"...

In 2005, Classic Rock got to grips with Audioslave's attempts to get out of the shadows of their members' former bands