Classic Rock Magazine

Jon Anderson's Olias Of Sunhillow is the tale of an alien race that’s forced to flee to a new world in the wake of a volcanic catastrophe

Live's Throwing Copper marked the multi-million-selling sweet-spot between R.E.M. and Pearl Jam

The dark Metalhead is another highlight from British metal veterans Saxon's late-career purple patch

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

Did Iron Maiden's second album build on the promise of their storming debut? And if it did, why did they get rid of singer Paul Di'Anno immediately afterwards?