Henry Yates

How Queen turned to a superstar fantasy artist for the News Of The World cover image

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

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

Fired from Black Sabbath in ’79, Ozzy lifted himself out of the scrapheap with an off-the-rails rocker that holds the best and worst of memories. All aboard!

Ozzy Osbourne reveals how he beat the odds to release the classic Blizzard Of Ozz album, his first after being fired by Black Sabbath.

From underground clubs to sold-out stadiums, Pink Floyd's path through rock has been revolutionary and stunningly successful. Here are their 50 best songs

How Pink Floyd built The Wall, and how Roger Waters rebuilt it 30 years later

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"

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

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

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

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

A Bruce Springsteen song of hardship, it’s easy to see why Rage Against The Machine were inspired to cover The Ghost Of Tom Joad