Henry Yates
Henry Yates has been a freelance journalist since 2002 and written about music for titles including The Guardian, The Telegraph, NME, Classic Rock, Guitarist, Total Guitar and Metal Hammer. He is the author of Walter Trout's official biography, Rescued From Reality, a music pundit on Times Radio and BBC TV, and an interviewer who has spoken to Brian May, Jimmy Page, Ozzy Osbourne, Ronnie Wood, Dave Grohl, Marilyn Manson, Kiefer Sutherland and many more.
Latest articles by Henry Yates

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Walter Trout protoge Danny Bryant has survived alcoholism, divorce and liver disease, but new album Nothing Left Behind is the exorcism he needed

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Jeff Buckley‘s version of this Leonard Cohen classic is one of rock’s most transcendent songs

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Huey Lewis & The News scored a massive hit with The Power Of Love thanks to Back To The Future

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Introduction written by Joe Bonamassa

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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

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Buying guide The best albums from Muddy Waters, the electric warrior of fine blues who mobilised the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton

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Black Stone Cherry's new EP Celebrate is out next month – and includes a very unlikely cover version

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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

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A 12-year gap between albums would see most bands lose fans and momentum, but not Australian prog-metal titans Karnivool

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Buying guide From The White Stripes to The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, Third Man Records and beyond, Jack White is Detroit's latest favourite son

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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

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Buying guide Since lighting the fuse of the blues boom, reluctant superstar Joe Bonamassa has barely stopped. Here’s a guide to his best albums

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All the elements of the classic rock'n'roll lifestyle fed into a storming tune about a crazy ex-lover

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Rob Halford recalls how Judas Priest celebrated 1980s materialism - complete with sexy motor imagery and state-of-the-art studio technology

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Inspired by Irish punk and the Smash Hits Awards, Screamager brought Therapy? unexpected fame

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Drink cider from a lemon? Grant Nicholas reveals the real inspiration behind Feeder's hit single Buck Rogers

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From school to hellraising in short order – all enabled by a story of a whirlwind intergalactic romance

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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

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The song that marked one of rock’s great reinventions

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Think the late Chris Rea was just the guy who wrote Driving Home For Christmas? Think again

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Twelve amazing months of prog rock, pop rock, blues rock, country rock, art rock, glam rock, alt-rock, southern rock, Christian rock, proto-rock, Britrock, hard rock, vampire rock, garage rock and moon rock

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Two albums into his career, Lenny Kravitz was still taking the train to the studio. Then came the night that changed his life forever

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John Fogerty’s massive hit inadvertently captured the chaos and turbulence of late 60s America
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