Paul Elliott

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

Eddie Money was a singer who was never as well known as he should have been, but the ‘patron saint of uncool’ made some cool records

Black Sabbath might have lost Ozzy, but they recruited Dio and make one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time

In 2017, Classic Rock spoke to Neil Peart and found out there was much more to the Rush Drumming legend than just paradiddles, polyrhythms and labyrinthine lyrics

Remember the 80s? Amazingly, touring partners Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx and Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott do – and Classic Rock got them to compare notes

Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion I and II albums were epic, sprawling and deranged. We've boiled them down to the 10 essential songs from both

Recorded in a rush and inspired by horror films, Sabbath’s debut was panned by critics. Idiots. Here, guitarist Tony Iommi looks back on the album's legacy

Heavy metal doesn’t come more gloriously over-the-top than the self-proclaimed kings and defenders of ‘True Metal’ – here we round-up the albums essential to any record collection

How Guns N’ Roses made Welcome To The Jungle – the song that lit the fuse on the explosion that followed

The Brian Johnson era may have kicked off with the unsurpassable Back In Black, but there's plenty of other fodder in his canon

After the kind of success most can only dream about, former Journey singer Steve Perry said it was all over. Then he started believin’ again…

Rehashing a psychedelic tune from the days of Alice Cooper (the band), the man himself fashioned an OTT accompaniment to the 1972 presidential election

The world domination of Guns N’ Roses began not in LA, but with three chaotic weeks in London in June 1987. They came, they drank, they fought, they conquered

"Just out of this world" – that’s how his life in Queen is summed up by Brian May – or rather, Doctor Brian May, CBE, for whom 2017 has been another memorable year in a career of many

Saxon were cruising the New Wave of British Heavy Metal... and their signature tune celebrated it