Henry Yates

The Beatles have been gone for more than half a century, but their shadow still looms large over rock music and rock musicians - and these are their best albums

Two Classic Rock writers go toe-to-toe over the Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath guitar legends

Blues lifer Robin Trower picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names his favourite Robin Trower album (Hint: It's not Bridge Of Sighs)

From Mississippi roots to wilderness years and redemption, John Lee Hooker always played the blues his way. Here are the albums that go boom boom

Future rock superstars, US presidents, Hollywood megastars – Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood has met with them all

Guitarist Eric Bell and producer Richard Whittaker tell us about Thin Lizzy's acoustic album, grass-addled sessions and why this project definitely isn’t AI

Take care of business. Quit your comfort zone. Don’t listen to rock journalists. And never forget you could still be washing cars. Life advice from The Book Of Tremonti

After three decades of changing line-ups, the original G3 – Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson – returned to the stage

From greedy politicians to male mental health, Massive Wagons stuck their necks out on 2024's Earth To Grace album

Aerosmith were huge in the 70s and 80s - but the 1990s was their most successful decade ever

The inside track on Appetite For Destruction from one of the men who played on it

Eric Clapton's best albums, the cream of his decades-stradling crop

A-listers, established artists, up-and-comers, previously unknowns and more

Xavier Dphrepaulezz on Sion Of A Broken Man, the concept album inspired by his tumultuous relationship with his late father

The second volume of US bluesman Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Dirt On My Diamonds series is out now

Trashing hotel rooms with Ozzy, teaching Mark Wahlberg how to rock and almost joining Guns N’ Roses – Black Label Society guitar berserker Zakk Wylde has done all of it and more

Put together as a labour of love by Queen’s surviving members, Made In Heaven was followed by multi-platinum sales and five Top 20 UK singles

Embracing their roots on record for the first time, The Cold Stares' seventh album The Southern shares a vision of the South you won't see from other musicians or the media

In 2005, Nickelback were already one of the biggest rock bands in the world – and All The Right Reasons was about to make them even bigger

Joanne Shaw Taylor picks her records, artists and gigs of last significance, and reveals why her nephew is practising for a Viking funeral

We've sifted through the hundreds of legally dubious and musically bankrupt albums released under Jimi Hendrix's name since his death in 1970, and come up with six of the best

Producer and engineer Eddie Kramer looks back on his association with the great Jimi Hendrix

There are infinitely more highlights in the Canadian singer-songwriter’s bulging catalogue than just 'that song'

On July 2, 1991, the infamous 'Rocket Queen riot' kicked off during a Guns N' Roses show at the Riverport Amphitheater in St. Louis. This is what happened

The story of prog icon Rick Wakeman‘s epic 1970s shows for Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and King Arthur On Ice