Latest articles by Dave Everley
The Story Behind Nine Inch Nails Closer
As Tommy Lee of Motley Crue once put it, Closer is "the ultimate **** song" - but it certainly wasn't written that way
How Queen, The Who and Star Wars inspired the greatest power ballad about alien abduction ever written
It even got the South Park seal of approval
The forgotten singer who replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath before Ronnie James Dio
The story of the short-lived union between Black Sabbath and a former singer of Fleetwood Mac
Lemmy's nearest and dearest on how the Motörhead man faced death "like a champ"
You might not be surprised to find that Lemmy faced his own mortality with the kind of no-nonsense attitude that defined his life
9/11, censorship and conspiracy theories: the story of System Of A Down's Chop Suey!
Not even System Of A Down themselves could have predicted just how big this song would become
Sammy Hagar on Jesus, aliens and the 70s sci-fi prog album he never got to make
The unlikely story of Sammy Wilde And Dustcloud
The inside story of A Night At The Opera, the album that saved Queen
Fifty years on, Brian May and Roger Taylor reveal the vision, precision and daring behind Queen’s A Night At The Opera, the album that rewrote rock’s rules
How Monster Magnet came up with metal’s greatest f**k-you anthem
Monster Magnet mainman Dave Wyndorf holed up near Las Vegas with guitars, speakers, a drum machine and a four-track recorder
Blackberry Smoke overcook the recipe on Rattle, Ramble & Roll - The Best Of Volume One
Southern rock flagbearers Blackberry Smoke serve up an overstuffed career-spanning compilation
Ghost’s Tobias Forge wanted a song to match Queen. Instead, he wrote the greatest plague-inspired metal banger of the last 20 years
The story of Ghost‘s classic 2018 single Dance Macabre
Spinal Tap’s improbable return is the comeback no one expected – and even fewer requested
Three men, one vision, several lawsuits
Megadeth were broke, homeless and way behind Metallica. But this song would change everything for them
How Megadeth wrote a landmark thrash metal classic in the midst of personal and financial chaos
Nine albums by W.A.S.P you should hear, and one to avoid
W.A.S.P's infamy as leading shock metallers of the 1980s belies a back catalogue full of serious classic rock-influenced songwriting
The incredible story of Thor, the bodybuilding heavy metal singer who links Ozzy, Lemmy and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Muscles, kidnappings and inflatable hot water bottles – the rise, fall and resurrection of Thor, one of 80s metal’s greatest cult heroes
How Status Quo turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history
Status Quo beefed up John Fogerty’s ‘piddly’ original and struck rock’n’roll gold
When fate intervened to destroy an art-rock record, its creators wrote an album about fate
New concept LP begins with the true story of a baggage handler who stole a plane and killed himself, and goes on to celebrate a fake cult based on a toy ball
How Whitesnake made a cult R&B song their own – and got the blessing of the soul icon who wrote it
In 1978 Whitesnake turned a Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland chestnut into one of blues rock’s greatest anthems
After a crisis of confidence, the former frontman of one of prog’s greatest groups still doesn’t know who he is
Adopted soon after birth, his search for clues to his identity inspired a book which then inspired an album – and there’s a reason it’s not a completely prog work
Robert Plant on musical freedom, unfinished business, and getting confused with Robert Palmer
Robert Plant talks about his latest group Saving Grace, and compares nights out in small provincial towns to meetings with Barack Obama and Prince Charles
The story of Slayer’s Angel Of Death – the fastest, freakiest and most controversial song in thrash metal history
The opening song from 1986’s Reign In Blood affirmed Slayer as thrash metal’s scariest scare-mongers
“There was a real sense of excitement. We had a point to prove: this is the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world." How Iron Maiden went from East End outcasts to the world's most loved heavy metal band
Iron Maiden legends Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris look back at 50 years of heavy metal history
Every Rush album ranked from worst to best
Canada's prog rock heroes have amassed an immense discography over a 50-year career... and now they're hitting the road again
Glenn Hughes has played with Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Black Country Communion and more - but he should never have left his first band
Glenn Hughes has spent more than 50 years in rock - and he's ready to talk about it all
Marillion and Tangerine Dream men took six years over an album that sounds like neither band
Their Bioscope debut arrived after the pair took advice from Steven Wilson, spent a week every winter exploring sounds and ideas, and borrowed Elbow’s drummer to fulfil their instrumental cinematic vision
