Latest articles by Classic Rock Magazine
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
School's Out: How Alice Cooper created a song about the greatest three minutes of everyone's life
School's Out: The delinquent sound of youth gone wild
How ZZ Top mixed Depeche Mode and southern rock to deliver one of the biggest songs of 1983
The story of Sharp Dressed Man, the second of the Eliminator video trilogy that catapulted ZZ Top into pop culture superstardom
How Jimi Hendrix recorded the song that established his otherworldly abilities
A month after arriving in London, Jimi Hendrix recorded a song that transformed ancient blues into modern hard rock
Avalon: The album that consolidated Roxy Music's shift from art-rock to gossamer smooth adult pop
Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera and Andy MacKay reach peak maturity
The story of the Neil Young classic written on a piece of newspaper in the back of a car
Written while Neil Young was high and unable to sing, Like A Hurricane has gone on to become one of his most durable creations
The story of Ritchie Blackmore's most epic Rainbow song, Stargazer
Inspired by a cello riff and launched by one of rock's great drum intros, Stargazer found Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio at their absolute peak
How Pete Townshend's disgust with the hippies inspired The Who's most epic song
Warning: Contain's rock's most epic scream
Type O Negative do both doom and gloom on October Rust
October Rust: the culmination of Type O Negative’s progress from ugly ducklings to uglier swans
The story of Stairway To Heaven, the Led Zeppelin classic that became the Mount Everest of rock
Once voted the second-best song of all-time by the readers of Classic Rock, Stairway To Heaven is the Mount Everest of Rock
How Deep Purple created an all-time hard rock classic with a song that "didn't go anywhere"
Built from a riff that came from nowhere, Smoke On The Water has been covered by everyone from ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic to Black Sabbath
How David Coverdale used glamour and bombast to turn Whitesnake into international superstars
Between 1984 and 1987, Whitesnake underwent a transformation like no other – and it paid off
How Freddie Mercury's "fevered brain" conjured up Queen's biggest song
Queen's record company didn't want to release Bohemian Rhapsody as a single, but history has proved them wrong several times
Album Of The Week Club review: Deep Purple climb an early pinnacle on Machine Head
Machine Head was the album that set the template for Deep Purple’s entire future direction
Van Morrison perfects his blues/rock/Celtic soul thing on Saint Dominic's Preview
In which Van the Man accidentally invents Montrose
Album Of The Week Club: The Sex Pistols burn the apple cart to the ground on Never Mind The Bollocks
A work of spittle-flecked, petulant genius
Supergroup Wild Horses pull up short on lacklustre debut studio album
Rainbow's Jimmy Bain + Thin Lizzy's Brian Robertson = Mild Horses
Aerosmith reclaim their glam crown on the none-more-eighties classic Pump
Done With Mirrors and Permanent Vacation had put Aerosmith on the comeback trail, but Pump was Aerosmith's ultimate destination
A grieving Gregg Allman slows things down on the gospel-country-blues of Laid Back
Gregg Allman takes a break from the Brothers to mourn his brother
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young, and the truth about rock's most misreported beef
The story of three songs that started fifty years of fake news
Supergroup Bad English's debut album is a perfect time capsule of late-80s AOR
The million-dollar lineup of John Waite, Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, Ricky Phillips and Deen Castronovo piles on the gloss
