Latest Features on Classic Rock
The Beatles' albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
The Beatles have been gone for more than half a century, but their shadow still looms large over rock music and rock musicians - and these are their best albums
Tobias Forge on spirituality, isolation and the positive joys of fandom
Tobias Forge, aka Papa V Perpetua, talks dark matters and working towards a "newer, better, bigger" Ghost
How Andy Summers and Robert Fripp collaborated with remarkable ease in the 80s
When the Police and King Crimson men got together, the result was two well-received albums and a stack of forgotten material – finally released – that they can’t believe wasn’t used in the 80s
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
Featuring the Rolling Stones, His Lordship, Ashley McBryde and five other good old-fashioned lover boys and girls
How Metallica’s Black Album killed thrash metal
The band that helped create thrash pretty much killed it
Jimmy Page or Tony Iommi? A heated debate over who is the best guitarist
Two Classic Rock writers go toe-to-toe over the Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath guitar legends
The incredible story of King’s X, the greatest band the world doesn’t know about
Jesus, grunge and near death experiences – the story of cult Texan rockers King’s x has it all
Here’s the line-up of every major festival in 1995… it really isn’t too different to how they’ve shaped up 30 years later
Britpop was thriving, Pumpkins were Pumpkinsing, and Skunk Anansie tried to get on every bill going…
The night Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris joined Def Leppard to cover Creedence Clearwater Revival
This one-off union of two British rock superstars actually happened
This is what Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore really thought about Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham
Friendship or rivalry? A little bit of both
The epic story of Born In The USA and Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s
The Boss owned the 1980s thanks to landmark albums The River, Nebraska and Born In The USA
How Boston were almost pulled apart by turmoil and tragedy
Boston, created by reclusive genius Tom Scholz, flew high but fell so far
Kirk Hammett on his new book, a new solo album and why Metallica will never retire
Metallica's six-string king has his sights firmly set on the future
Johnny Van Zant on Lynyrd Skynyrd's new live album, life without Gary Rossington and new music
Iconic southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd play four UK shows in July. Will they play Free Bird? Good chance
The 50 best Led Zeppelin songs
Led Zeppelin may have shunned singles, but they wrote some of rock's most iconic songs – and here are 50 of the very best
This is the soundtrack of Robin Trower's life
Blues lifer Robin Trower picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names his favourite Robin Trower album (Hint: It's not Bridge Of Sighs)
It's been 18 years since the last King Diamond album and he's getting impatient
Danish shrieker King Diamond has returned to the road with "a horror show set to music"
