As Judas Priest celebrate 50 years in rock'n'roll with a lavish photobook, Ian Hill tells us about Rob Halford's sabbatical, how the next album's going, and the stories that have never been told

Vandenberg mastermind and guitarist Adrian Vandenberg on classic rock, David Coverdale and tentative hopes to "tour my ass off"

Former Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider on his old band, finding a new musical direction and wanting “to be like Ozzy”

The Georgia Thunderbolts are the young guns taking up the southern rock torch and keeping the flame alive

For a time in 1970s Slade were the most popular band in Britain. But then a car crash put the brakes on, America didn’t ‘get’ them, and as glam-rock faded so too did the band’s fortunes

A personal look back at the music, life and times of late UFO bassist Pete Way, who influenced so many who came after him

For a while in the 1970s Uriah Heep reigned supreme, but then it gradually began to fall apart

In the late 80s, with their live shows and second album punching hard, the rock press fighting their corner and the band gathering momentum, White Lion’s future looked bright. But it soon dimmed rapidly

Prog-god guitarist Steve Hackett picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the song he's cavorted to

In 2019 Lee Kerslake sat down for his final Classic Rock interview. He talked about Uriah Heep, fighting and forgiving the Osbournes, and his battles with illness

Massive-sounding, massive-selling, and with massive barnets, the 1970s saw the birth of the monster known as AOR. Here, Styx, Foreigner, Journey, Survivor and more explain what it was all about

Like most young budding rock musicians, Corky Laing had a dream. Unlike most, his came true, as he steadily scaled the rock’n’roll mountain and made it to the very top

Forty-Five Hundred Times was the song that threw a spanner in the songwriting partnership of Status Quo's Parfitt and Rossi, but it took on a life of its own, and they even extended it for royalty

While the Allman Brothers Band are retired and Lynyrd Skynyrd are preparing to follow suit, one of their contemporaries continue to stick to their path: The Outlaws

Are drive-in gigs and pay-per-view concerts the post-pandemic future?

After 50 years, 26 studio albums and a bitter legal battle, for Andy Powell keeping Wishbone Ash going “has been a personal quest. For me it’s almost become a religion”

The story of Kansas is just your average tale of power struggles, line-up changes, religious conversions and multi-million selling hit records

Everybody's got to start somewhere, and some of our very best bands started slowly. Here's 10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually great