Latest articles by Carol Clerk
Wild times on the road on Rory Gallagher's most iconic tour
Known for his musical integrity and down-to-earth approach, Rory Gallagher was the workingman's guitarist, and Irish Tour '74 his defining statement
The growing pains and artistic rebirth of Billy Idol
Twenty years on from Rebel Yell and 10 years after overdosing on crack, Billy came back in 2005 with a trademark sneer and an album that did what he does best
The Gospel according to Alice Cooper: Snakes, guns, alcohol and Bible study
After decades in the business of rock'n'roll, this is the Gospel according to Alice Cooper
The psychedelic early days of acid overlords and space travellers Hawkwind
Leading lights of the UK's psychedelic revolution, Hawkwind's early days were a fug of good trips, bad trips, free-form chaos and dancing gazelles
How the Rolling Stones married sex, blues and rock’n’roll and launched themselves to notoriety
The story of the exhilarating early ’60s birth of the Rolling Stones
"I went out expecting to see Kiss at Hammersmith Odeon and instead spent the evening in a pub with Bon Scott and Angus Young": An AC/DC story
When AC/DC headed off on their Lock Up Your Daughters Tour in the summer of 1976, a future Classic Rock writer was there every step of the way
"She was a much more joyful, humorous, entertaining, alert kind of person than is generally described": The epic story of the real Janis Joplin
A look back at the career of the First Lady of rock, a short career marked by extraordinary music, terminal insecurity and the search for happiness
How Billy Idol turned a song of crazed vengeance into the hit that made him a star
From going nowhere in London with Generation X, to pop star and transatlantic hits, all it took Billy Idol was 15 minutes in a studio, and his sister getting pregnant
The story behind Eloise by The Damned
A premonition? A hunch? Destiny? In The Damned’s first ever interview, they said they wanted to cover the highly unlikely Eloise. Ten years later it gave them their biggest ever hit
The story behind the song: Dear Prudence by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Originally a Beatles song on the White Album, the Banshees’ version passed that important cover acid-test: "Quite a lot of people thought Dear Prudence was our original,” says Siouxsie
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand review
In which Robert Plant finds direction with a startling collaboration with Union Station singer Alison Krauss
The Who: from purple hearts to power chords
How The Who threw away their mod trappings and became the voice of a whole new rock g-g-generation
Uriah Heep, Splodgenessabounds, and the most ridiculous prank in festival history
While Jim was fixing it for Uriah Heep fan Martin, it was actually Max Splodge who was really fixing it for Heep. Confused? Read on...
