Latest articles by Henry Yates
The tragedy and triumph of Queen’s final album and Freddie Mercury’s last goodbye
How Queen made Innuendo and Made In Heaven against the odds
How Bo Diddley, beards and a Mexican battle song set one of the greatest blues trios of the 70s on the road to 80s superstardom
ZZ Top’s 1979 album Deguello marked the start of their most successful era
The story of the Jimi Hendrix guitarist who was written out of history
When Jimi Hendrix played Woodstock, old friend Larry Lee played guitar beside him - but his contributions were scrubbed from the movie
Nine Buckcherry albums you should listen to and one to avoid
Buckcherry were always gloriously out of step with the times. Here are the cherries on their catalogue cake
British bluesman Danny Bryant hit rock bottom in 2024: Now he comes clean
Walter Trout protoge Danny Bryant has survived alcoholism, divorce and liver disease, but new album Nothing Left Behind is the exorcism he needed
How Jeff Buckley turned a Canadian troubadour’s forgotten song into a one-man tour de force
Jeff Buckley‘s version of this Leonard Cohen classic is one of rock’s most transcendent songs
How an A-list director and a time-travelling teenager turned Huey Lewis & The News into unlikely 80s superstars
Huey Lewis & The News scored a massive hit with The Power Of Love thanks to Back To The Future
Hotel bombings, car crashes, conspiracy theories and towering infernos: The A to Z of B.B. King
Introduction written by Joe Bonamassa
Leo Lyons: turned down by Jimi Hendrix, saved by Pete Townshend, butted heads with Lemmy
As Ten Years After release an expanded version of their Ssssh album, founding bassist Leo Lyons recalls a live packed with rock'n'roll flashpoints
Nine Muddy Waters albums you should listen to and one to avoid
The best albums from Muddy Waters, the electric warrior of fine blues who mobilised the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton
Black Stone Cherry's Chris Robertson on the creative inspiration of dogs and battling Darth Vader
Black Stone Cherry's new EP Celebrate is out next month – and includes a very unlikely cover version
Elles Bailey talks fame, vanity, mental health and the childhood trauma behind her smoke’n’honey battle cry
With the release of her eighth album, Can’t Take My Story Away, roots star Elles Bailey's story is turning into a real page turner
Prog-metallers Karnivool are back to reclaim their crown – if they don't die on stage first
A 12-year gap between albums would see most bands lose fans and momentum, but not Australian prog-metal titans Karnivool
Nine Jack White albums you should listen to and one to avoid
From The White Stripes to The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, Third Man Records and beyond, Jack White is Detroit's latest favourite son
Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on Back To The Beginning and the loss of Ozzy Osbourne
When Halestorm's Lzzy Hale was asked to appear at Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show in Birmingham, ‘thrilled’ doesn’t even come close to how she felt
Nine Joe Bonamassa albums you should listen to, and one to avoid
Updated Since lighting the fuse of the blues boom, reluctant superstar Joe Bonamassa has barely stopped. Here’s a guide to his best albums
The debauched story of the Wildhearts classic made perfect by the last guitar solo from a legend
All the elements of the classic rock'n'roll lifestyle fed into a storming tune about a crazy ex-lover
The story of the love/hate hit that split the Judas Priest fan base
Rob Halford recalls how Judas Priest celebrated 1980s materialism - complete with sexy motor imagery and state-of-the-art studio technology
How Therapy? ram-raided the mainstream with an ode to the soap opera of teenage existence
Inspired by Irish punk and the Smash Hits Awards, Screamager brought Therapy? unexpected fame
The story of Feeder's breakthrough hit, a song its writer doesn't want to talk about ever again
Drink cider from a lemon? Grant Nicholas reveals the real inspiration behind Feeder's hit single Buck Rogers
The story of the joyous breakthrough hit inspired by Thin Lizzy, Star Wars and Dutch cigars
From school to hellraising in short order – all enabled by a story of a whirlwind intergalactic romance
The story of the spandex-clad classic that launched its creators into the stratosphere
Recorded on 9/11 and once voted the Greatest Song Of The Twenty-first Century So Far, I Believe In A Thing Called Love could have been a hit in any decade
How Owner Of A Lonely Heart transformed Yes from washed-up 70s prog band into 80s superstars
The song that marked one of rock’s great reinventions
