
Classic Rock Magazine
Classic Rock is the online home of the world's best rock'n'roll magazine. We bring you breaking news, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes features, as well as unrivalled access to the biggest names in rock music; from Led Zeppelin to Deep Purple, Guns N’ Roses to the Rolling Stones, AC/DC to the Sex Pistols, and everything in between. Our expert writers bring you the very best on established and emerging bands plus everything you need to know about the mightiest new music releases.
Latest articles by Classic Rock Magazine

Win a pair of tickets to see The Dead Daisies play live in Nuremberg
By Classic Rock Magazine published
We've got two VIP tickets to see The Dead Daisies live in Germany - prize includes return flights from London and accommodation

"Some now feel it was too heavy but it was in keeping with musical fashions of the day": Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
As far as swansongs go, Thunder And Lightning crackles with undeniable zeal and energy, with new guitarist John Sykes helping to create what is Thin Lizzy's heaviest album.

"Impeccable, clear and soulful in equal measure": Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson album review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Robbie Robertson hooked up with producer Daniel Lanois for his debut solo album, conjuring up a fashionably atmospheric twist to his ongoing fascination with American culture

"Scott Stapp mistakes the trite for the profound and delivers hallmark card lyrics with an earnestness bordering on the comical": Creed: Human Clay - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Criticised for being exemplars of the beige stodge-rock that followed grunge, Creed sold albums by the million. We try and figure out why

"He's not reinventing the wheel here, just venturing out of the wheelhouse": Bruce Dickinson: Tattooed Millionaire - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Brice Dickinson ventures out of his Iron Maiden-shaped comfort zone for debut solo album Tattooed Millionaire

AC/DC: High Voltage - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
High Voltage was the album that introduced AC/DC to the world beyond Australia, but it was not met with universal acclaim, as readers of Rolling Stone will attest

Metallica's Reload gets an underwhelming score from Classic Rock's readers in the Album Of The Week Club
By Classic Rock Magazine published
When Metallica tried to follow The Black Album, the results were mixed. Then the leftovers arrived

The 50 best rock albums of the year... so far
By Classic Rock Magazine published
2023 has thrown up more great albums than humanity probably deserves, and we've got compiled the very best of them into one historic web destination

Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes: Live at the Greek - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Live At The Greek wasn't quite what it should have been due to contractual obligations, but it was the most animated Jimmy Page had sounded in years

"A vision with the light shining through her dress" - the woman who inspired Free's All Right Now
By Classic Rock Magazine published
The "raunchy and suggestive" All Right Now broke Free in America - although the band members' stories about the origins of their most famous song differ

Kansas: Point of Know Return - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Kansas's follow-up to the massively successful Leftoverture was Point Of Know Return, a slice of intuitively melodic rock that spawned a huge hit single, the emotive Dust In The Wind

A royal birth: the real story of Queen's first album - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Also in this issue: Tina Turner, Star Fleet Project, Scorpions, Billy Gibbons, Geezer Butler, Drive-By Truckers, Vintage Trouble, The Alarm, Luke Morley, Buckcherry and more

Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
The live album of Joe Cocker and Leon Russell's shambolic, chaotic, sex-fuelled, Mad Dogs & Englishmen rock’n’roll circus

Nirvana: Bleach - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Beneath the wilfully grubby production, Nirvana's debut album Bleach seethes with confidence, intelligence, star quality and pop sensibility

Tina Turner: Acid Queen - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
One side of classic rock bangers, one of R&B originals: the two sides of Tina Turner fight it out on 1975 solo album The Acid Queen

The Cramps: A Date With Elvis - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
A Date With Elvis continued The Cramps' fascination with lust, obsession, and the darker side of rock'n'roll culture

Aerosmith: Rocks - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Rocks: Aerosmith's fourth album was sleazier than a Boston back alley and sharper than a hypodermic needle. Or was it?

How A Momentary Lapse Of Reason caused all-out war for Pink Floyd
By Niall Doherty published
When Pink Floyd fell apart, Roger Waters took David Gilmour to court – and that's when the drama really began

Toto: XIV - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Your reviews of Toto XIV, or, as it's otherwise known, Toto's contractual obligation album

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe: Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
The self-titled Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe is the album from the version of Yes that wasn’t technically Yes at all

The Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
"I wanted to make a 2D rock record. I wanted something that chuntered happily along" - Sisters Of Mercy mainman Andrew Eldritch on 1990's Vision Thing

Coke! Ghosts! Chaos! Inside the recording of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: only in the new issue of Classic Rock
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Inside: Black Sabbath, George Harrison, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad, The Damned, Crown Lands, Sparks, Peter Frampton and much more

The making of Deep Purple's Machine Head: "Smoke On The Water only made it onto the album as filler"
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Let the members of Deep Purple MKII be your guide to the chaotic recording of Machine Head, an album that could have been very different to the one we know and love
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