Classic Rock Magazine

Badfinger were besieged by Beatles comparisons and beset by bad business dealings, but perhaps No Dice's ultimate legacy is the hits it provided for others

Selling England By The Pound was strikingly complex yet often deceptively simple, and it heralded a different Genesis in so many ways

Made In Japan showcases Deep Purple at the height of their powers, straddling an indelicate line between intense and indulgent, monstrous and meandering

After the chart success of Real Wild Child, Iggy Pop changed tack and came back with Instinct , a chest-thumping pile of meat ’n’ potatoes metal

"They were one of the finest rock bands of their time" - David Bowie liked them, but what about the Album Of The Week Club?

Working with producer Brendan O’Brien for the first time, Pearl Jam's Vs. has a ferocity and bite which leaves the more stately Ten in the dust

When Jim Morrison died in Paris, the other three members of The Doors completed the sessions they'd started, and the Jim-less Other Voices emerged just three months later

Every scene needs a song to carry its message to the world, and Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow provided two. But what of the rest?

Ditching Deep Purple’s full-throttle grandeur, Ian Paice and Jon Lord's new endeavour was conceived as a hybrid of the blues groups, jazz outfits and big bands they had grown up with

Joe Satriani's Surfing With The Alien was the album that made his name and took shredding to the masses

With one foot in their blues past and the other in the psychedelic present, The Yardbirds' Roger The Engineer was the band's only UK album

There's more to BTO than Smashy and Nicey's favourite song, and Not Fragile proves it

In which Former Deep Purple bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes and guitarist Pat Thrall kick up a short-lived AOR storm

Straight outta South London, Rock Goddess's career faltered more often than it flowered, but the pioneering trio's self-titled debut is a fondly-remembered slice of NWOBHM