Henry Yates

Foghat are in that select group of Brit bands with US hits who never had any success at home. Their defining moment came with this mid-70s single about rock'n'roll mainstay S-E-X.

From the archive: Leslie West talks about dropping acid at the Fillmore, kicking methadone with Johnny Winter and missing Jack Bruce

Many were longlisted, but this is the final selection – the best rock songs of the 21st century thus far, as voted for by you

With Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH joining the likes of Metallica, My Chemical Romance and Limp Bizkit in California, Aftershock 2021 is officially next year’s most mouthwatering US rock festival

With themes of war, madness and nuclear holocaust, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid remains the ultimate difficult second album. Fifty years on, we remember how it razed the rock’n’roll landscape

From interactive fan-only concerts to hook-ups with your favourite artists, the redesigned Show4me music interaction network is breaking down the barriers

Session ace Michael Landau on punk-jazz, pubbing with Rod Stewart, and pranks with “foul-mouthed” Steve Lukather

For some, it never gets better than the beginning: here's 10 bands who never improved on their debut albums

Late Chicago powerhouse Howlin' Wolf was equal parts transcendent and terrifying. These are the releases that will blow down your house

Deep Purple, Black Country Communion and Dead Daisies man Glenn Hughes picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the songs he doesn't remember singing

Rabid dogs, lost souls and the ghost of Jimi Hendrix – how HIM made the album that turned them into transatlantic superstars

Morpheus Project unveil their debut single Mozaick – complete with spellbinding video

Introducing prog-loving shamanic prog-blues duo Crown Lands, who say “more is more” and mix brains with musical brawn.

The Pretty Reckless have announced they'll be releasing a new album next year – as they share an acoustic version of lead single Death By Rock And Roll

Released in 1984, Spinal Tap's satirical take on the world of heavy metal was brilliantly funny – and painfully accurate

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

Bryan Adams’ hit single Summer Of '69 wasn’t about childhood innocence and forgotten friendships – it was an ode to topsy-turvy lurve-makin’

Even as his time ran out, Freddie Mercury was the driving force behind Queen’s 1991 album Innuendo and the voice from beyond the grave on 1995’s Made In Heaven. Here’s how Queen went out with a bang

Jeff Healey arguably never sounded more alive than on his lost album, Heal My Soul

Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley answers rock's heaviest questions