Paul Elliott

It looked like it was all over for AC/DC after their last tour. But the best hard rock’n’roll band in the world don’t quit that easily. And back they came, with Classic Rock's best album of 2020: Power Up

With the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and solo, Steve Winwood has shown himself to be a truly singular talent. These are his best albums

FM singer Steve Overland reveals how positivity and lack of pressure has done the British melodic veterans good

Proving there's much more to life than Love In An Elevator

A dozen unsung classic tracks that show there's much more to Jimmy Page than Stairway To Heaven. Much, much more

When Dave Lee Roth walked away from Van Halen it caused a war, but new frontman Sammy Hagar ensured there would only be one winner

They’d lost Malcolm. Brian was out. Axl was in. Phil was in trouble with the law. Then Cliff retired. it looked like AC/DC‘s high voltage had been unplugged for good... but then something sparked

From Free to Bad Company and beyond, Paul Rodgers' back catalogue is a gold mine. Here's how to buy his best albums

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

What Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury was really like, by Peter Hince – a roadie for Queen for 12 years

We salute Nickelback's much-maligned frontman, Chad Kroeger

Rush frontman Geddy Lee picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals his least favourite Rush album

Saxon frontman Biff Byford on the special records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

Supernatural screamer King Diamond he has some great songs – here are 10 of the best

When Phil Carson signed AC/DC to Atlantic Records, he might well have made the deal of the century. Here, he talks about their rise to fame and how they rebuilt themselves with Back In Black

The death of AC/DC’s frontman Bon Scott looked like it might deal a fatal blow to the band as well. But they got a new singer and made a career-rejuvenating record that became the biggest-selling rock album of all time: Back In Black

Since the early 1970s, Eagles and associated solo projects have produced some of rock’s most timeless and enduring music

Mötley Crüe left behind them a trail of destruction and 10 albums – here ranked from worst to best...

Ronnie James Dio's albums with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio helped define what a hard rock singer can be

As Kiss as they broke out of the clubs of New York City in 1974, it would be a long, hard slog before the rest of America paid attention

After the world-beating one-two of Toys In The Attic and Rocks, Aerosmith were soaring. But as they started work on the budget-busting Draw The Line, drugs and dysfunction would send them into a tailspin that would take a decade to pull out of

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson might have become an average blues guitarist. Instead he became the best one-legged flute player in the world, and for more than 50 years led his band to critical acclaim and huge commercial success