Phillip Wilding

Articles by: Phillip Wilding

Living Colour posing for a photograph in the early 1990s

“Our manager said Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck were in the crowd. I had to put it out of my mind and play”: The epic story of Living Colour, the band that revolutionised 80s hard rock

By Phillip Wilding published

Living Colour are the black rock band who blazed a trail through the 80s and 90s music scene

Dogs D’Amour posing for a photograph in 1989

“Any drug coming along, I’d take. It wasn’t a self-destruct thing. It either closed the door on my mind or opened one up”: The wild life and drunken times of cult rock’n’roll pirate king Tyla J Pallas

By Phillip Wilding published

Musician, artist, poet – Tyla J Pallas is rock’n’roll’s answer to Charles Bukowski

Coheed & Cambria: The Father Of Make Believe album cover

“Although it continues the ongoing Amory Wars saga, this is a starker, slicker, highly polished gem of a record”: Coheed And Cambria mix the personal and the cosmic on new album The Father Of Make Believe

By Phillip Wilding published

Coheed And Cambria retain their sci-fi prog metal crown on The Father Of Make Believe

Manic Street Preachers posing for a photograph in 2025

“We’ve done a lot of our growing up in public, made our mistakes too. We’ve suffered at times with that. Our extremes are extreme”: How the Manic Street Preachers shook things up to make new album Critical Thinking

By Phillip Wilding published

Even after all this time, the Manic Street Preachers still bow to no one

The Wildhearts: Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts

“An ode to the litany of wankers we all have to deal with every day”: The Wildhearts prove once again they’re one of the UK’s greatest bands with The Satanic Rites Of…

By Phillip Wilding published

Cult UK rock heroes The Wildhearts deliver another masterpiece with their 11th album

Rush posing for a photo in 2007

“If you’re going to stay friends, you have to say something if someone’s out of line. We’ve kept egos in check all the way because of that.” How Rush’s Clockwork Angels became the prog icons’ perfect swansong

By Phillip Wilding published

In 2012, Rush released their nineteenth and final studio album Clockwork Angels – and last words don’t come any better

Rush’s Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee performing onstage in 1976

“I don’t think we knew what the hell was going on. We were just happy that we were still around after 2112”: The history of Rush’s live albums, by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson

By Phillip Wilding published

From All The World’s A Stage to Rush In Rio, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson look back over Rush’s journey as a live band

Glenn Hughes and Tony Iommi posing for a photograph in 2006

“We were in LA getting ready for a gig and I said, ‘Where’s Glenn?’ He’d gone to Atlanta. He was a loon, just through doing so much coke and drinking”: How Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes rekindled their turbulent friendship to make Fused

By Phillip Wilding published

Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi and ex-Deep Purple man Glenn Hughes reunited in 2005 to make the Fused album

Rush posing for a photo in 2007

“Neil had a look on his face like he was going to explode. He was a little pissed off”: How the rejuvenated Rush hit full stride during their final chapter with Snakes & Arrows

By Phillip Wilding published

Rush’s 2007 album Snakes & Arrows found the prog icons back from their late 90s hiatus with a vengeance

Duff McKagan flipping the bird at the camera

“Slash and I could drink anyone under the table, but Arnold Schwarzenegger was a challenge. He was smoking and swearing all the time”: Duff McKagan’s wild tales of Iggy Pop, Aerosmith, Johnny Thunders and The Terminator

By Phillip Wilding published

Boozing with Arnie, jamming with Iggy, ignoring Aerosmith’s phone calls – Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has done it all and more

Stone Sour posing for a photograph in 2010

“I’m not saying my doing something else saved Slipknot, but it certainly saved me”: How Stone Sour made the leap from Corey Taylor’s ‘other band’ with Audio Secrecy

By Phillip Wilding published

In 2010, Stone Sour released their third album Audio Secrecy – and finally shook off the ‘side project’ tag

Rick Wakeman in front of his collection of keyboards

“There was a crunching noise, as the plane hit the tarmac, and the propellers and engines flew off, along with the odd bit of wing”: the epic life and mad musical journey of Rick Wakeman, keyboard wizard and Knight Templar

By Phillip Wilding published

The epic life and mad musical journey of Rick Wakeman, keyboard wizard and Knight Templar