Latest articles by Classic Rock Magazine
How a sleazy record company man inspired Heart's classic feminist anthem Barracuda
Prompted by a suggestive advert and a "sleazeball with a satin jacket", the furious Barracuda still resonates
How Eddie Vedder plumbed the murkiest of emotional depths to complete a Pearl Jam classic
Pearl Jam's debut single was an act of catharsis for Eddie Vedder, but the band's audience took it in an unexpected direction
Stuart Adamson's guitar work elevates Skids' Scared to Dance above the ordinary
The sound of a bunch of scrappy youths from Scotland's industrial heartland
How Jethro Tull took a difficult subject and created one of the all-time great prog anthems
"It's about our reaction of guilt, distaste, awkwardness and confusion, all these things that we feel when we’re confronted with the reality of the homeless"
Pete Townshend finds stable ground away from The Who on Empty Glass
Empty Glass was Pete Townshend’s response to the death of Keith Moon and the arrival of punk
The defiant story of Creedence Clearwater Revival's most understood song, Fortunate Son
Fortunate Son was a burning commentary on class and elitism, delivered against the sulphurous backdrop of the Vietnam War
The story of the Marc Bolan classic that inspired Prince twice
T.Rex's Get It On was the band's only US hit, but Prince was certainly listening
Smashing Pumpkins release their grand artistic statement on Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Billy Corgan’s ambitions reached their zenith on Smashing Pumpkins' swollen 1995 double album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
The story of the song that saw Bob Dylan pivot from folk to rock
Using three chords nicked from La Bamba, Bob Dylan wrote the song that transformed his career – despite his record label's initial reluctance to release it
The story of Money, the song that turned Pink Floyd into rock heavyweights
Money: A song so good it's been recorded three times – once by Pink Floyd, once by David Gilmour, and once by Roger Waters
Keep Rob Halford up at night and you end up with a Judas Priest classic
Living After Midnight was pivotal in breaking Judas Priest in the US – and it all came about because Rob Halford couldn't sleep
Don Henley closes out the 1980s on the all-star The End Of The Innocence
The End Of The Innocence was a poignant reflection on Reagan-era America from Eagles drummer Don Henley
The story of the Hendrix-inspired Cream classic their label boss thought was "psychedelic hogwash"
Cream's Sunshine Of Your Love was a slow-burning success, but it inspired a generation of future rockers
The Kinks trade music-hall whimsy for slabs of arena rock on Give The People What They Want
The Kinks' 19th studio album explored the band's harder edges and saw the reintroduction of an old friend
The story of The Doors' L.A. Woman – the last song they ever recorded
Ray Manzarek calls L.A. Woman "the quintessential Doors song" - but they only ever played it live twice
The story of the Kiss classic inspired by the tragic death of a fan
Producer Bob Ezrin sang the guitar solo to Ace Frehley so he could learn it – and Detroit Rock City went on to become Kiss's second-most-played song
Rock's 20 greatest one-album wonders: The bands that made one album then vanished
They came, they saw, they disappeared – these are the bands who made one perfect album then split up
The Stooges mark the post-Altamont death throes of the hippy zeitgeist on Fun House
The Stooges' second album Fun House is a beautiful seven-track study in the feral and unhinged
How Jimi Hendrix recorded Purple Haze – on a guitar he'd never played before
The story behind the song that established Jimi Hendrix's psychedelic credentials
The story of the Van Halen classic written to mock punk and embraced by the punk rockers
Producer Ted Templeman says Van Halen's Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love is his favourite song from all those he's worked on
All Day And All Of The Night: The fractious story of the Kinks classic they're still arguing about
For a song at Hard Rock Ground Zero, there sure is a lot of disagreement about You Really Got Me
Electric Warrior – T.Rex's collection of sun-dappled narco-rockers – is more than the two hits
Marc Bolan sheds his hippy skin and reinvents himself as a golden god with a gleaming, screaming electric guitar
The story of Brown Sugar, the controversial Rolling Stones song they won't play live any more
With origins in the Australian outback and a rare riff from Mick Jagger, Brown Sugar's lyrics are still a source of controversy
