Classic Rock

The ex-White Stripes man and guitar magus on the essential ingredients he thinks it takes to become a six-string master

Metal’s all-time greatest concept album? Operation: Mindcrime could be it

With close harmonies and a full orchestral suite on Human. :||: Nature. the band proved it was capable of endless expansion. But the experience of being mobbed and drowned out in South America offered pause for thought

Andrew Eldritch on the meaning of life, jazz-funk and beetroot

From rock icons like Guns N' Roses and Queens Of The Stone Age to metal behemoths Gojira, it's safe to say Myles Kennedy knows his way around a riff

Frank Skinner on the "inspirational" Judas Priest, playing in a cult Birmingham band and the heavy metal sitcom that never was

Every song on Frank Stallone's self-titled debut album is an AOR throatpunch with a credit roll

Eric Clapton's best albums, the cream of his decades-stradling crop

Hanoi Rocks frontman turned solo star Michael Monroe on living with Stiv Bators and Johnny Thunders, and the possibility that he might never die

Late guitar innovator Jeff Beck lived rock'n'roll history - but was much more interested in the future

Keyboard icon looks back on his classical albums, recently assembled in a box set, recalls being knocked off the No. 1 spot by gardener Alan Titchmarsh – and remembers offering Peter Gabriel a new gig