Latest articles by Derek Oliver
Turn Me Loose, Working For The Weekend, Loving Every Minute Of It – Loverboy raised the maple leaf flag high in the 1980s
Buying guide From cult pomp rock to Metallica-approved hair metal, these are five connoisseur-approved albums everybody should know about
Journey were a noodling jazz-rock band with a cult following – until they discovered Steve Perry and made 1978’s Infinity
His only solo release merged Genesis, Greenslade and Soft Machine vibes with an additional experimental edge. But the real beauty is that it couldn’t have been made any other time than the early 70s
How "Little Led Zeppelin" became global stars and carved out a place for women in rock along the way
Boston, created by reclusive genius Tom Scholz, flew high but fell so far
A last-minute crew change, an exploding car and a contract battle all contributed to plans being abandoned, until the band delivered 35th Anniversary: Live In Poland in 2014
Styx’s 1978 album Pieces Of Eight was a watershed moment for the pomp rock stars – for good and for bad
Former Journey frontman Steve Perry gives us the lowdown on every song from his first album with the band, Infinity
Celebrating the finest, most velvet-throated singers to ever belt out a power ballad
Not every hard rock band can be Journey or Bon Jovi – here are 8 lost AOR treasures that should have gone multi-platinum
'Colonel' Tom Allom created the iconic tolling bell on Black Sabbath's debut album, although he admits to not liking their music very much
Singer Steve Perry goes through his debut album with Journey, track by track.
