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Iggy Pop: Instinct - Album Of The Week Club review
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
Dave Grohl once named the band who were his 'biggest songwriting influence'
Dave Grohl wasn't really a songwriter until he was forced to become one - and he owes more to one band and one man than anyone else
Fanny: Fanny Hill - Album Of The Week Club review
"They were one of the finest rock bands of their time" - David Bowie liked them, but what about the Album Of The Week Club?
Pearl Jam: Vs. - Album Of The Week Club review
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
Alter Bridge: The rise and rise of rock's reluctant superstars - only in Classic Rock
Plus! Motorhead, David Bowie, Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners, Bonnie Tyler, Mother's Finest, Marillion, Slade, Massive Wagons, Francis Rossi, Tuk Smith, Jellyfish and Porcupine Tree
The Doors: Other Voices - Album Of The Week Club review
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
How 'Ken Hensley' accidentally ended up on the cover of Uriah Heep's Firefly
With Uriah Heep on the road celebrating 50 years in the business of rock, we revisit the creation of the artwork for one of their less successful albums
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow - Album Of The Week Club review
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?
Paice Ashton Lord: Malice In Wonderland - Album Of The Week Club review
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: Surfing With The Alien - Album Of The Week Club review
Joe Satriani's Surfing With The Alien was the album that made his name and took shredding to the masses
The story of the out-of-focus shot that became one of rock's great album covers
The cover of London Calling by The Clash features one of punk's most iconic images – so why doesn't photographer Pennie Smith enjoy talking about it?
What happened when Rob Halford briefly became Black Sabbath's frontman
It's 2004 and Ozzfest has reached New Jersey. Black Sabbath are headlining, but rumours about Ozzy's health are circulating backstage and only one man can save the day: The Metal God
Lars Ulrich picks a British rock star as his favourite songwriter of all time
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich selects his favourite songwriter in the new issue of Classic Rock magazine
Iron Maiden - Killers: Album Of The Week Club Review
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?
Pink Floyd: the story of Wish You Were Here's iconic artwork
Not many album covers require stuntmen, but Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here used three
Pink Floyd's Dark Side: Inside the tour that road-tested rock's greatest album
Only in the new issue of Classic Rock – plus Porcupine Tree, Journey, Tedeschi Tracks Band, Dorothy, The Who, Michael Monroe, Kris Barras, The Moody Blues, The Gaslight Anthem and much more
The 20 best rock albums of 1977
Famous for being punk’s finest hour, 1977 also produced one of the best-selling rock albums in Rumours, and classics from Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Rush and Thin Lizzy
The 20 Million Club podcast: How did The Dark Side Of The Moon become the 4th best-selling album of all time ?
Classic Rock's podcast continues to examine the biggest-selling albums of all time, with a look at Pink Floyd's 40m+ selling epic
How Pink Floyd reinvented themselves: only in Classic Rock, on sale now
Also this month: Uriah Heep, Alice Cooper, Inglorious, Adrian Smith & Richie Kotzen, Kate Bush, The Pretty Things, Thunder, Metallica, Blue Oyster Cult and more
The 20 best rock albums of 1973
1973 was the year the Skynyrd arrived, Led Zeppelin showed chinks in their armour, and Tubular Bells and Dark Side Of The Moon began their route to world domination
The 20 best rock albums of 1975
The classics just keep on coming. Welcome to the year of Physical Graffiti, Born To Run, Blood On The Tracks, A Night At The Opera and many more
The 20 best rock albums of 1970
Altamont had brought the 60s to a disastrous close, but 1970 saw the birth of a new breed of supergroups, and established stars heading in new directions
The 20 best rock albums of 1979
The 1970s crash out in style with AC/DC, Pink Floyd and The Clash producing some of their best work, and Led Zeppelin’s last hurrah
