Classic Rock Magazine

After the demise of The Firm, Jimmy Page roped in some old friends for his only solo album, Outrider

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's New York was an angry love letter, a biting indictment, an open-hearted outpouring of empathy, despair, resignation, fury and outrage

Billed as "a fresh bong-load of potent, sticky and hairy musical salvation", Blues For The Red Sun is a landmark in stoner-rock

The Underfall Yard was Big Big Train's first album with late singer David Longdon, and a key staging post on the band's long crawl to success

Mystery To Me is the oddest and most eclectic album of Fleetwood Mac’s entire career, mixing mellow rock with funk, reggae and even disco

Fear Of A Blank Planet is a terrifying album about a generation being raised by "screens" as surrogate parents, recorded before the widespread popularity of smartphones

An offshoot of the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster mixed prog with furious riffs and thunderous drum beats

Having failed to break the US, Slade made Whatever Happened To Slade, an album influenced by American bands. It also failed

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