
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

Toto: XIV - Album Of The Week Club review
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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
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"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
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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"
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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

We once asked Leslie West who his favourite guitarist was: his answer was not what we expected
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Mountain's Leslie West on the guitarist who sounded like a "45-year-old blues guy when he was barely in his twenties"

Jane's Addiction: Ritual De Lo Habitual - Album Of The Week Club review
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Ritual De Lo Habitual became the first ‘alternative’ record to sell a million, inspiring a generation of bands who would ultimately kill the idea of ‘alternative’ stone dead

Can: Tago Mago - Album Of The Week Club review
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Can's Krautrock masterpiece Tago Mago was an album that realigned rock, commencing countdown for 21st-century music

British Steel by Judas Priest: the story behind that iconic album artwork
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"Still now, when you look at that cover, it has a tremendous impact" - Rob Halford

Montrose: Paper Money - Album Of The Week Club review
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After announcing their arrival with a stone-cold classic, Montrose returned to the studio in 1974 to record an underwhelming second album. Perhaps they should have released them in reverse order

Metallica's 72 Seasons: the full story is told in the new issue of Classic Rock
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Inside: a brand new Metallica interview, plus Gary Rossington, Ian Hunter, Def Leppard, Jethro Tull, DeWolff, Floor Jansen, Kansas, Richard Marx, Europe, Floor Jansen and more

Heart: Heart - Album Of The Week Club review
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In the 1980s Heart's music was retooled as super-slick AOR, the Wilson sisters rocked Dynasty hairdos and frilly corsets, MTV loved them, and they sold millions

John Lee Hooker: The Best Of Friends - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
More than a dozen of John Lee Hooker's superstar duets, gathered together in a collaborative showcase

Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Last Rebel - Album Of The Week Club review
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A refurbished Lynyrd Skynyrd attempt to conjure up original Skynyrd spirit on 1993's The Last Rebel

Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow: Stranger In Us All - Album Of The Week Club review
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Rainbow’s unloved final album was released in 1995, after Ritchie Blackmore’s nine loveless years married to the re-formed Deep Purple

Europe: Walk The Earth - Album Of The Week Club review
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Walk The Earth is the sixth studio album since Europe's reunion, and The Final Countdown – nor anything like it – is nowhere to be seen

The making of Deep Purple's classic Machine Head: only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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Also in this issue: Led Zeppelin, The Answer, David Crosby, Jellyfish, Robert Fripp, Empyre, Queensryche, Steel Panther and much more

The story of Rush's debut album: "We wanted to be a hard rock band"
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In 1973, unsigned power trio Rush worked the graveyard shift to record their debut album. It was the start of something magnificent

Jimmy Page: Outrider - Album Of The Week Club review
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After the demise of The Firm, Jimmy Page roped in some old friends for his only solo album, Outrider

Buffalo: Volcanic Rock - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Buffalo brought hard rock to the bars and hotels of Australia, and second album Volcanic Rock found them rocking at their lava-laden best

Lou Reed: New York - Album Of The Week Club review
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Lou Reed's New York was an angry love letter, a biting indictment, an open-hearted outpouring of empathy, despair, resignation, fury and outrage

The story of the man who jammed with Led Zeppelin then sold Jimmy Page his most famous guitar
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"How I spent so many hours jamming with Jimmy and the entire line-up of Led Zeppelin is something I still have difficulty in coming to terms with to this day"

Kyuss: Blues For The Red Sun - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Billed as "a fresh bong-load of potent, sticky and hairy musical salvation", Blues For The Red Sun is a landmark in stoner-rock
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