Henry Yates

Dark times won’t stop chart-bothering Massive Wagons, and neither will the bullies, bigots and bent politicians skewered on new album Triggered!

Archers Of Loaf's Eric Bachmann on burnout, returning, and rediscovering his anger – poured into the band's new album – at 52

Rob Halford recalls how Judas Priest celebrated 1980s materialism on Turbo Lover – with the picture completed by sexual innuendo and state-of-the-art studio technology

"That song was like having your really good friends give you the best gift you could ever receive" - the story of Elton John's timeless Tiny Dancer

Steve Miller's album sales were in the doldrums until old friend Maurice resurfaced on The Joker and gave him a long-awaited number 1

Veteran guitarist Snowy White has toured with Pink Floyd but is unimpressed by fame: "I didn’t even realise they were a particularly big band"

Plymouth's Brave Rival have more than their share of rafter-shaking riffs, but there's soul and blues and sensitivity too

There's so much more to Metallica's best-selling Black Album than meets the eye. Here's 20 strange things you might now know

Born out of an identity crisis and resurrected by superhero show Peacemaker, Wig Wam's 2010 anthem Do Ya Wanna Taste It was a cautionary tale of flying too close to the sun

Coheed And Cambria's Claudio Sanchez on fantasy worlds, inhabiting the Star Wars universe, and recording while "high as f**k"

Debut album Tales Of Torment channels the spittle of punk and the spook of Alice Cooper

The Belfast guitarist's new solo album, The Fighter, is out now

Thunder guitarist Luke Morley picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the sport Jimmy Page is terrible at

Mick Fleetwood's gone head-to-head with Keith Richards and presented a disastrous awards show with Samantha Fox. It's no wonder he has tales to share

Anglo-American roots duo Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse are darting between genres and dancing as the world crumbles

Prince Of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne talks about Black Sabbath, sobriety, burying the hatchet, beating the booze and sticking it to Lollapalooza

Glenn Hughes and Joe Bonamassa discuss their careers, wonder why rock’s future will suffer from a lack of small venues, and mention something about a new Black Country Communion album

South African blues-rocker Dan Patlansky on corrupt governments, nursing his wife and giving up smoking

Written in the late 1950s by Sonny Curtis, I Fought The Law took on a new and decidedly grittier life when The Clash put their stamp on it in 1979

A song without a writer, Ram Jam’s (or was it?) version of Black Betty was one of 1977's most memorable hits

Only a special Hendrix cover can sit comfortably alongside the original. Stevie Ray Vaughan's Little Rare is a rare example that does

Upon its release in 1977, God Save The Queen become punk’s most provocative statement, one that led to the band being violently attacked in the street

From The Byrds to Guns N’ Roses via Jimi Hendrix’s unimpeachable All Along The Watchtower, we look at the Bob Dylan covers where the students eclipsed the master