Greg Prato

Soundgarden were still waiting for their big break when they released Jesus Christ Pose

Ratt were kings of the 80s hair metal scene, only for it all to go very wrong

For nearly a decade in the late 70s and early 80s, The Cars were one of America’s most popular bands

Late, great Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell would have turned 60 on July 20 – this is the story of the band that made him famous

These aren't Mike Portnoy's favourite albums - they're much more important than that

The Cars motored up the charts with a trailer full of hits in the 70s and 80s before their engine fell out. Here's a look back at their albums, in chronological order

As with all of The Police’s hits, Sting is listed solely as the song’s author, but according to Andy Summers, he and Stewart Copeland helped shape the final track

John Lennon, Keith Moon and Kurt Cobain were fans. They influenced Kiss, Cheap Trick and Bruce Springsteen. So how come The Raspberries never quite made it?

The bands who defied the sophomore slump to deliver the greatest albums of their career

Dead Boys had a rampant live show and a debut album matched only by The Ramones. But The Dead Boys lived it like they played it, and burned out after only two records

As a man who once went racing around Hollywood with Rod Stewart in a Lamborghini, drum legend Carmine Appice has some tales to tell

"We didn’t think it was going to be a big hit, but people were loving it” - when producer Rick Rubin talked Run DMC into recording Aerosmith's Walk This Way, rap-rock was born

In 2006, the late great Ronnie James Dio told us about what he called "the greatest album ever made"

"It was fun to sing for a while, then it started feeling kind of silly" - Chuck Mosley on Faith No More's classic We Care A Lot

Mötley Crüe’s now departed guitar hero Mick Mars picks 10 albums that soundtracked his path through music

The story of Diamond Head's NWOBHM classic Am I Evil, a song that anticipated black metal and inspired Metallica

Megadeth bassist David Ellefson selects ten rock'n'roll stepping stones that turned a Minnesota farmboy into a star

The story of the sound that blew in from the desert

"It was the end of our musical drought, the beginning of our new direction, an affirmation of life. It meant the band had a present – and a future – again” - Geezer Butler

Mick Jagger talking about Elvis, Little Richard offering advice: Living Colour's follow-up to their debut hit Vivid was not like other second albums

In an excerpt from a new biography of Rainbow, band members remember the 1980s, when a change of direction saw Ritchie Blackmore & Co. strike out for video stardom

King Crimson's Discipline is an adventurous, experimental and ground-breaking collection from one of rock’s truly singular bands

Written as a statement about the demise of radio's sense of adventure, Rush's classic The Spirit Of Radio was a surprise hit. And it's "fun to play" says Alex Lifeson

Did grunge kill glam rock or rescue us from it? Either way, the new noise from Seattle was a revolutionary force. Here's ten of the best grunge albums

How No One Knows became Queens Of The Stone Age's signature tune - promoted by a pop-surrealist video