Latest articles by Henry Yates
Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks pick the blues albums that are good for your health
Everybody’s favourite husband-and-wife team flip through their record collection and dig out the platters that truly matter
Mdou Moctar pulses with a fiery momentum on Funeral For Justice
Funeral For Justice is the sixth studio album from Nigerien desert rockers Mdou Moctar
Why Honeymoon Suite's new songs will not be messed with when they're played live
Honeymoon Suite frontman Johnnie Dee on politics, car accidents, and that time he flew to Canada and missed out on meeting Ian Anderson
"We're the bastards": listen to Mötley Crüe's spidery comeback single Dogs Of War
Exclusive: Vince Neil tells us all about Mötley Crüe’s first single since 2015
"We don't want to stagnate": Mötley Crüe sign with Big Machine Records – Vince Neil exclusive
Sunset Strip veterans Mötley Crüe join Scott Borchetta’s Nashville label, with new single Dogs Of War due later this week. Crüe vocalist Vince Neil gives us the dirt
"We're not defined by the five worst days in our lives": Scott Stapp has had dark days, but he knows the world we live in is not all unicorns and rainbows
Returning with new solo album Higher Power, Creed frontman Scott Stapp reflects on why music keeps pulling him through
“I don’t think there was a single riff I wrote after 1992 that Zack de la Rocha even liked”: how Audioslave saw Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello escaping his own past
In 2006, Audioslave’s Tom Morello and Chris Cornell sat down with Classic Rock to reveal all about their third album, Revelations
"It became my favourite song the first time I heard it, and it still is": How Jack White rocket-fuelled his hero Son House for a whole new generation
When The Whites Stripes' Jack White was 18, he heard Delta bluesman Son House for the first time. It was a song that spoke to him "in a thousand different ways"
"So I drink it – and the next thing I know it was eight days later": Bluesman Philip Sayce on industry sharks, his werewolf obsession, and the dangers of drinking at LA parties
Philip Sayce: sometimes he wants his guitar to sound like a huge, angry lion, or sometimes a spaceship lifting off
"We were starting to work in the girl theme. Cars, girls, fast and loud – those elements were starting to gel": How ZZ Top reinvented themselves with Degüello to pave the way for Eliminator
With some top tunes, a vintage clavinet and a battery of effects plastered all over it, Degüello successfully updated ZZ Top’s old-school blues and pointed the way towards future superstardom
Rising star Hannah Wicklund is only in her mid-twenties, but she's been building towards her new album for decades
Meet a multi-instrumentalist and vocal powerhouse tipped for great things: Hannah Wicklund
"I thought, 'I’m gonna make a song telling people to party, but party however they want.'" How an earnest, sober young man in a grubby white t-shirt called Andrew W.K. convinced a post-9/11 world to embrace positivity with a song called Party Hard
Affected by the darkness of 9/11 and fed up of partying being owned by booze and drugs, Andrew W.K. went about writing an unlikely generational anthem
The 10 worst Beatles songs
Even The Beatles had their off days, as these 10 stinkers prove
"It's a lot heavier than you'd expect": Mike McCready on Pearl Jam's next album, working with Andrew Watt, and the state of the US
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready talks smashed Stratocasters, screaming solos, and why his band need their "asses kicked"
The Walter Trout albums you should definitely own
The best of bluesman Walter Trout's studio back catalogue to catch in your net – and one to throw back
The story behind Jackson Browne's favourite Jackson Browne album cover
Based on a painting by Belgian surrealist René Magritte, the cover photograph for Jackson Browne's Late For The Sky took weeks to capture
14 peace anthems and the stories behind them
From pleas for equality to anti-war sentiments and social commentary, we look at some of the greatest peace songs of all time
The 10 best Keith Moon performances, by Kenney Jones
Kenney Jones replaced the irrepressible Keith Moon in The Who in 1978 – and these are performances by his predecessor he loves the most
Richie Sambora on Dolly Parton: "If you're not a fan, then you don't understand music very much"
Former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora on blowing up Glastonbury with Dolly Parton, playing on Rockstar, and why "Dolly is Elvis, man"
"I saw one royalty cheque... and I never saw anything else from that point on": Edwyn Starr's raging classic War may have made his name, but it didn't make him rich
‘War! Huh! Yeah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!’: 10 words that entered the public consciousness in 1970 and have never left
32 of the greatest onstage moments in the entire history of the rock guitar
Celebrating the pioneering, the spectacular, the unexpected and the unrepeatable
"We actually took it to a musicologist because we didn’t want to get sued": the story behind George Thorogood & The Destroyers' Bad To The Bone
George Thorogood’s ode to brawlin’ and heart breakin’ Bad To The Bone was inspired by The Rolling Stones and almost recorded by Bo Diddley
The 50 best rock albums of 2023
The past 12 months may go down in history as a period of tumult and turmoil, but on the positive side, rock'n'roll is very much alive and well – as the best 50 albums of 2023 reflect
