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David Bowie successfully charts a path into his later years with the help of a returning friend
David Bowie transforms once again, this time into himself
AC/DC are captured in their hungry prime on If You Want Blood You've Got It
Recorded in front of a rabid Glasgow audience, If You Want Blood is AC/DC and Bon Scott at their live peak
Japan's Flower Travellin' Band aren't for the faint-hearted on proto-prog-guitar-wigout Satori
Bored with covering Western blues bands, the Flower Travellin' Band set out on their own sonic adventure
Faster Pussycat's debut is a middle-finger-in-the-air collection of songs about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll
Faster Pussycat capture all the sleaze of Sunset Strip on rowdy self-titled debut
Scorpions mix hard rock, pop and metal on the pre-stardom classic Taken By Force
The Scorpions' last album with Uli Jon Roth and first with Herman Rarebell sums them up in the year that punk broke
The Alan Parsons Project's Eye In The Sky sounds like punk and new wave pop rock never happened
Alan Parsons' most commercially successful album bore fruit with the sports anthem Sirius and the hits Eye In The Sky and Old And Wise
Sweet rock hard and conjure up a cult classic on Give Us A Wink
Could Sweet still produce after dumping Chinn and Chapman? You bet!
Decades on, The Beatles' White Album is still igniting pub arguments
The one where the cracks in the Beatles' armour began to appear and quality control took a back seat
Chris Rea finds friends among fans of Mark Knopfler, J.J. Cale and Robbie Robertson on The Road To Hell
The Road To Hell fuses Chris Rea's weather-beaten blues instincts with serious songwriting smarts and a sharp-eyed sense of social unease
Steven Wilson seeks the sweet spot between pop and progression on Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Inspired by a tragic modern story, Steven Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase. is often hailed as his masterpiece. But is it?
The 31 best rock reissues and deluxe editions of 2025
With major A-list anniversaries, overlooked landmark works and everything in between, the past 12 months haven’t been lacking in quality nostalgia and deluxe editions
In Memoriam: A tribute to the musicians we lost in 2025
Musicians who travelled up to the great gig in the sky in 2025 include Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, Ace Frehley, Sly Stone, Marianne Faithfull and many more
The Best 50 Rock Songs of 2025
Twelve amazing months of prog rock, pop rock, blues rock, country rock, art rock, glam rock, alt-rock, southern rock, Christian rock, proto-rock, Britrock, hard rock, vampire rock, garage rock and moon rock
Judas Priest revive themselves on Painkiller before Rob Halford's decade-long hiatus
Judas Priest follow up the lukewarm Turbo and the tepid Ram It Down with the red-hot Painkiller
Prince aims for superstardom and succeeds with Purple Rain - just steer clear of the movie
The Purple Rain movie may have been a polished turd of soapy melodrama, but it – and the brilliant soundtrack – transformed Prince into a towering icon of the video age
The 50 Best Rock Albums of 2025
Twelve months of life-enriching, extraordinary new music
Jimmy Barnes strives for solo success on second album For The Working Class Man
Freed from Cold Chisel, Australian national treasure Jimmy Barnes called in the big guns for his attempted US breakthrough
Dave Mustaine reaches thrash metal nirvana on Megadeth's Rust In Peace
No filler or flab on one of the most obscenely thrilling moments in all of recorded metal history
Foreigner arrive fully-formed and formidable on debut album
While punk rock was big news in 1977, the radio-friendly rock of Foreigner was still perfectly timed
Praying Mantis fail to surf the NWOBHM wave on Time Tells No Lies
Life at the melodic end of the hard rock spectrum was not always kind
Four decades down the line, Fastway's debut album falls short of classic status
Combining Eddie Clark’s in-your-face guitar, Dave King’s high-register vocals and Jerry Shirley’s gut-rumbling drumming, Fastway peaked early
Wolfgang Van Halen finds his voice and sets a high bar on third Mammoth album
The third Mammoth album feels like the work of a musician settling comfortably into his own space and comfortable with all that attention
Review: Ace Frehley annoys Gene and Paul by releasing the most successful of the Kiss solos
Kiss famously released four solo albums on the same day. Just as famously, only one of them was truly worthy of the Kiss name - Ace Frehley's
