A Farewell to Kings - Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson look back on 50 years of Rush
We sat down with Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson at the end of 2024 to speak about their 50-year journey from there to here - and what might happen next
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“We were whisked off in a limo and I joined them on their Learjet. I overslept in Jon’s hotel suite because they’d been very generous with spliffs”: My 39 days as a cosmic brother of Yes, by Gryphon’s Brian Gulland
He once gatecrashed Chris Squire’s dressing room because he knew nothing about concerts. Later, when his own band were at their proggiest, he took everything he could out of opening on Yes’ Relayer tour of 1974
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The death of talismanic frontman Jim Morrison in 1971 looked like it marked the end of the road for The Doors. But his bandmates had other ideas
An interview with the New York Dolls' David Johansen
Our 2011 interview with the late David Johansen finds him talking about Arthur Kane, Johnny Thunders and dancing backwards in high heels
The chaotic story of Rush’s early years and their journey from high school stoners to prog icons
Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson look back their journey from high school stoners to prog icons-in-waiting
How Kate Bush smashed the barriers and became a star like no other
In 1978, Kate Bush had just released her debut single Wuthering Heights – and one journalist was there to watch it all take off
How Judas Priest reunited with Rob Halford to regain the metal throne with Angel Of Retribution
In late 2004, Classic Rock joined the reunited Judas Priest on the road in Spain
The twisted story of Alice Cooper’s shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare
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The Smashing Pumpkins album that Billy Corgan says has always had a “weird cloud” around it
Things were never straightforward for Corgan & co. throughout the 90s and the tale of what was meant to be their final record pretty much sums it up
Andy Fairweather Low’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Roger Waters and Tom Jones
From Hendrix’s backing vocalist to George Harrison and Roger Waters’ right hand man, Andy Fairweather Low is one of rock’s secret MVPs
The albums by Nazareth you should listen to... and one to avoid
Although never rock A-listers, enduring Scots Nazareth have a recorded catalogue peppered with timeless bluesy rock gems. These are their best albums
Flag-burning prog innovators The Nice found trouble on stage and off it
Keith Emerson, Davy O’List and Lee Jackson created enough controversy to last for decades in their original three-year run
How a band of Dutch retro-rockers ended up recording at two legendary recording studios
The Queen Of Soul, the birth of the Allman Brothers Band, and the new album from retro-rock flag bearers DeWolff all have something in common
Marillion look back on the making of the album that tore the band apart
Fish, Steve Rothery and Mark Kelly look back at the making of Marillion's best-known and most successful record, Misplaced Childhood
“ELO, Judas Priest, my dad’s piano playing – that’s prog!” Pat Cash’s record collection
Travelling the world with his Walkman, the young Australian moved on from his family’s opera and folk to Rush, Steven Wilson, Brian Eno, Francis Dunnery and Anathema, and adopted his chequered headband in honour of Cheap Trick
The story of how Metallica got themselves an orchestra – and the album that followed
With Metallica’s S&M reaching the grand old age of 25, we look back at how, and why, the world’s leading metal band teamed up with – shock, horror – the San Francisco Symphony
“Yes told me never to come back”: How Oliver Wakeman joined and left his dad’s former band
If Rick Wakeman’s son had taken an angrier attitude to being fired in 2011, their 2019 mini-album From A Page might never have been rescued from the demo stacks
