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Ozzy Osbourne, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Jim Morrison and Joe Strummer onstage
The greatest gig I've ever seen: 24 writers pick the most memorable live show of their lives

By Classic Rock Magazine Published

24 life-changing live shows from 60 years of gigs

Concerts & Shows
Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore holding a guitar and Ian Gillan singing onstage
Ritchie Blackmore once asked former Deep Purple bandmate Ian Gillan to join Rainbow

By Classic Rock Published

Gillan responded by asking Blackmore to join his solo band

Bands & Artists
Graham Bonnet and Ozzy Osbourne in 1982 (composite image)
Former Rainbow singer Graham Bonnet has just told the most disappointing Ozzy Osbourne story ever

By Fraser Lewry Published

Rock, and indeed, roll

Bands & Artists
The Led Zeppelins - AI generated image
Listen to a version of Led Zeppelin II that sounds like it was made in the 1950s

By Fraser Lewry Published

And we still don't have personal jetpacks

Music
Ritchie Blackmore studio portrait, June 1975
The Ritchie Blackmore albums you should definitely listen to - but none of them are by Deep Purple

By Paul Elliott Published

Buying guide A guitarist who helped define the sound of a genre, both pre- and post- Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore has a formidable back catalogue of classics

Buying guide
Ronnie James Dio studio portrait
"I insist upon being great": The A-Z of Ronnie James Dio

By Jerry Ewing Published

In his decades fronting Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and more, the little man with the huge voice made a great many friends – and more than a few enemies

Interviews
Cozy Powell iin 1989
The epic life and tragic death of Cozy Powell

By Dave Ling Published

Drum legend Cozy Powell passed away on April 5 1998 at the age of 50. This is his story, by the people who knew him best

Bands & Artists
Robert Plant covered in "pie"
Watch Robert Plant receive a foam pie to the face in 13 minutes of anarchic kids' TV with Cozy Powell

By Fraser Lewry Published

TV really isn't what it used to be

Interviews
Ritchie Blackmore and Graham Bonnet onstage in Rotterdam, February 1980
In 1979, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow began making their fourth album, Down To Earth. Cue pranks, tantrums, line-up changes, bad vibes and really bad hair days

By Paul Rees Published

"I didn’t look like them and I wasn't into their music" - Graham Bonnet on being offered the job of Rainbow singer

Albums
Ronnie James Dio and Rainbow album Long Live Rock N' Roll
"It was the most scary thing any of us had ever been through." Ronnie James Dio on the "evil spirit" that apparently sabotaged Rainbow and ended up pushing his wife down the stairs

By Liz Scarlett Published

While recording in a haunted château, Ronnie James Dio believed he'd accidentally summoned a "really evil spirit" that caused chaos during their sessions

Albums
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