Latest articles by Dave Everley
"You have to manifest your destiny. You have to think about what you want to do, then do it": A celebration of the life of Taylor Hawkins
Two years on from the death of Taylor Hawkins, we remember and celebrate the life of the Foo Fighters drummer, natural showman and perennial 'Mister Fanboy'
“If somebody’s got an alcohol problem or a drug problem, there’s nothing you can do”: the epic life of Don Airey, the man who has worked with Ozzy Osbourne, Ritchie Blackmore and Gary Moore and lived to tell the tale
Ozzy, Richie Blackmore, Gary Moore - keyboard maestro Don Airey has worked with them all and has the stories to prove it
“He’d go to the pub, come back at 9 o’clock, out of it, and go, ‘Right, let’s start’”: the story of Ozzy Osbourne’s forgotten 1970s “prog rock” solo band
A couple years before he met Randy Rhoads and released Blizzard Of Ozz, Ozzy Osbourne tried to launch a solo career with a different band
Slash interview: Growing up with the blues, assembling Orgy Of The Damned, meeting Peter Green, and the crazy journey behind that Oscars thing with Ryan Gosling
Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators start their European tour next week
A rebuilt Wall, Madonna's producer and an American academic: How Roger Waters saved himself
At the start of the 90s, Roger Waters was up against it. An epic concert of The Wall in Berlin was the first brick in rebuilding his career, followed by his third solo album, Amused To Death
“I was a wreck, physically and mentally. I wanted to cancel shows, split up the band, all these kind of things”: Aiming to make a “super-heavy record,” Opeth embraced the Mellotron and made Damnation instead
Mikael Åkerfeldt – who’d become band leader because no one else would do it – recalls the misery of making the landmark 2003 album which made him feel he could hold his own with the likes of Porcupine Tree
Why I love Kiss, by Bill & Ted’s Alex Winter
“They were like superheroes”: how Bill & Ted star Alex Winter fell in love with Kiss as a 10-year-old. Excellent!
Fugazi: A great title but no songs to go with it… even the pathologically casual Marillion started to worry they’d never write the record, and they’d never get a drummer to play on it if they did
The story of how Marillion made their second album, 1984's aptly titled Fugazi
"No holograms, no troupes of dancers, just a giant light-up trident descending from the ceiling": Judas Priest keep it simple on a triumphant first night of the Invincible Shield tour
A show 160 years in the making: Judas Priest, Saxon and Uriah Heap take to the stage in Glasgow
"I don't think they're gonna retire. They've been retiring for the last twenty years": Kiss played their final show last year, but Ace Frehley isn't convinced
The former Kiss guitarist on his latest solo album, continuing to have fun, and why you'll never see an Ace Frehley avatar in a million years
“We weren’t tempted to pursue that particular avenue, no. Led Zeppelin did it much better than us”: the Pink Floyd song that made Nick Mason realise they would have been a “terrible” heavy metal band
In an alternative universe, a late 60s Pink Floyd song could have taken them down an entirely different path
"It's a celebration that we’re still alive and we’re still going and hopefully there’s still light at the end of the tunnel." The story of Marillion and An Hour Before It's Dark
Six years on from FEAR beingreleased during a time of political turmoil, and yet nothing could have prepared Marillion for the challenges they’d face in making its follow-up
"My business is to create. It’s what I do." How Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson struck out on his own, got weirder than ever and created some of the boldest music of his career, over 50 years in.
Bruce Dickinson has finally dived into the next chapter of his solo career - and it sees him in as creative and determined form as ever
The stories behind Bruce Dickinson's new album The Mandrake Project
Bored vampires, inspirational graveyards and Pulp Fiction moments: these are the stories behind every song on Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project
“I had heard how turbulent this band was. All this fighting over control and power”: Don Felder lived through the best and worst of the Eagles, and came out the other side
Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder went from a dirt poor childhood to one of the biggest groups in history – and survived it all
The 20 greatest rock supergroups ever
From Cream and ELP to Temple Of The Dog and Velvet Revolver, these are history’s greatest supergroups
"When we first started, he did not want to sound like Iron Maiden": Roy Z on his three-decade creative partnership with Bruce Dickinson
Producer and guitarist Roy Z explains how Bruce Dickinson's solo material has evolved in the past 31 years
Demon bikers, resurrections and ritual sex magic: Bruce Dickinson takes us behind the scenes for The Mandrake Project. "We're going full Hammer Horror"
Between Iron Maiden albums, tours, getting his pilot's license and beating throat cancer, it's been a long road for Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project, but it's all proved worth it for one of the most ambitious multi-media releases of 2024
7 brilliant new metal bands to watch out for in 2024
From Japanese Samurai metallers Ryujin to 'bimboviolence' pioneers BRAT, rising alt metal stars Alt Blk Era and mysterious black metallers The Sun's Journey Through The Night, these are the bands you need to hear in 2024
“He was an immortal badass”: the genius of Tom Petty, by the people who knew him best
Tom Petty’s daughters, ex-bandmates and peers look back on the life of an American legend
“Those Dire Straits songs walked away from me long ago. They belong to you now”: the life and times of Mark Knopfler, rock’s reluctant superstar
Ex-Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler on motorbike crashes, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and his complicated relationship with his old band
“Does it deserve to be measured against the classics? Yes... and no. ‘Warts and all’ is admirable, but some warts could do with a little concealer”: Von Hertzen Brothers’ Live at Tavastia
The Finnish siblings have more than earned the right to indulge themselves – but debut live album delivers mixed results
“He said, ‘How about Slayer with special guests Slayer?’ We went, ‘Wow, that could be crazy’”: the forgotten story of Slayer vs Slayer, the 80s metal Battle Of The Bands with only one winner
Two bands, one name, one crazy gig – this is what happened when a pre-fame Slayer shared a bill with another band named Slayer
"It was five guys having the time of their lives in a recording studio. It was out of control but under control at the same time": Uriah Heep and a tale of Easy Livin'
A song triggered by a conversation in a taxi, Easy Livin' broke Uriah Heep in the US, helped convert some of their harshest critics and propelled them into rock’s big league
