Latest articles by Classic Rock Magazine
A royal birth: the real story of Queen's first album - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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"
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
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
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
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
"Still now, when you look at that cover, it has a tremendous impact" - Rob Halford
Montrose: Paper Money - Album Of The Week Club review
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
