Latest articles by Henry Yates
"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
"My country might be in shambles right now, but I'm the king of these shambles": The Wanton Bishops' Nader Mansour on the beauty of Beirut
Lebanese rocker Nader Mansour on giving up screaming, dating wild women and the insecurity of musicians
Why I ❤️ David Bowie's Hunky Dory, by My Morning Jacket's Jim James
My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James on the classic 1971 album that introduced him to the joys of David Bowie
"So I open it up and it's ten thousand dollars in hundred-dollar bills, all stacked and taped together": The Cadillac Three's stories of Lemmy, Steven Tyler, Chrissie Hynde, Paris Hilton and more
They played hungover baseball with Jack White, fought bouncers alongside Kings Of Leon, and received wisdom from Billy Gibbons: they're the Cadillac Three, and these are their stories
The John Mayall albums you should definitely own
The Godfather of British blues introduced Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce and Mick Taylor to the world, and has made 60 albums in nearly 60 years
"We have one rule: you can have body punches and choke-holds and throw bottles at each other, but we never crack each other in the face": What happens when bands fight
The 40 bitterest bust-ups in rock history: From fisticuffs to wars of words to litigation and beyond, rock'n'roll’s divorce courts are packed with ire and animosity:
“Dolly Parton is tickling my beard! I thought: ‘Well, this is off to a good start!’”: how Rob Halford ended up appearing on Dolly Parton’s new rock album
Exclusive: Judas Priest’s Rob Halford reveals the secret of his collaboration with Dolly Parton
"I'll say goodbye to the boys and they can get someone else in to do the job. And I really mean it": Revisiting Black Ice, the album that saved AC/DC's career
For eight long years they’d been silent. Then, seemingly out of the blue, AC/DC rediscovered their mojo with Black Ice and became bigger than ever
"We would race cars and listen to The Eagles and Led Zeppelin": Susan Tedeschi picks the soundtrack of her life
Soul-blues queen Susan Tedeschi picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals why she's got a soft spot for Harry Styles
Joe Bonamassa fires on all cylinders on the unfailingly upbeat sequel to 2003's Blues Deluxe
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of his best-selling independent release Blues Deluxe, Joe Bonamassa repeats the trick
"I love to just get up and shake every demon out of my soul": The Glorious Sons' Brett Emmons on mental fortitude, scuppered sessions and his livewire stage persona
"I have that kind of crazy coyote thing about me. People will say I’m two different people on and offstage" - Glorious Sons frontman Brett Emmons
