The story behind Metallica's Black Album artwork By Howard Johnson On the 30th anniversary of Metallica's Black Album, we go behind the story of the album's cover
The 10 best Van Halen cover versions By Howard Johnson Eddie Van Halen's band were never afraid to wear their influences on their (record) sleeves
A short history of strange deaths in rock By Howard Johnson 17 great musicians whose final moments went down in history for the wrong reasons
Every song on Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, ranked from Worst to Best By Howard Johnson Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is a perfect album from start to finish, but that doesn't mean we can't rip it up and start again. So here it is, rearranged so it improves the longer you listen
Why Iron Maiden refused to mime on Top Of The Pops By Howard Johnson How Iron Maiden forced BBC bosses to bend the rules in order to broadcast their performance of Running Free
Why did Rage Against The Machine stand naked onstage at Lollapalooza in 1993? By Howard Johnson The story behind Rage Against The Machine's nude, wordless protest at Lollapalooza in Philadelphia
Fields Of The Nephilim: "Police found 13 lbs of cocaine – obviously it turned out to be flour" By Howard Johnson The Fields of the Nephilim came riding out of Hitchin like desperados in a spaghetti western, and while infighting was their undoing, like the best cowboys, they never said die
The 10 Worst Nirvana Songs By Howard Johnson A 36-minute Nirvana playlist which should be escorted to a dense forest and left there forever
Opinion: Guns N' Roses' Not In This Lifetime Tour - Not at those prices! By Howard Johnson How Guns N' Roses' anti-establishment stance is now establishment: create demand and fleece the punter for as much as you can
The 10 Worst Scorpions Songs By Howard Johnson A Scorpions playlist which should really be covered in concrete and thrown into the ocean
The 10 worst power ballads ever written By Howard Johnson Relax, you can keep your lighters firmly in your pocket for these 10 terrible power ballad turkeys
Def Leppard's Pyromania: every song, ranked from worst to best By Howard Johnson Take a bunch of ambitious lads from Yorkshire, add a brilliant producer, and you get the sort of alchemy that sells 10 million albums. Here's Pyromania, restructured to slowly improve as it plays
Why rock stardom is becoming a minority sport By Howard Johnson Myles Kennedy says the age of the rock star is over. And you know what? He could be right
Every Song On Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, Ranked From Worst To Best By Howard Johnson Can we make one of the biggest selling albums of all time better? Of course we can't. But we can rearrange it so it gets better as it plays
Forget Bob Dylan's Nobel Laureate Prize - These Are Rock's Ignoble Laureates By Howard Johnson Bob Dylan has rightly been lauded for his contribution to literature, but what about those who lyrical skills are more rudimentary? Here are 10 serial offenders
The 10 worst Ozzy Osbourne songs By Howard Johnson Ozzy is responsible for some genuine classics. And then there are these stinkers
Every Song On Deep Purple's Burn Ranked From Worst To Best By Howard Johnson With Ian Gillan and Roger Glover gone, Deep Purple ripped up the hard rock rulebook and produced one of the greatest albums of the 70s. Here it is, rearranged from worst to brilliant best
Why Black Sabbath's Paranoid is the Quintessential Heavy Metal Album By Howard Johnson Black Sabbath's Paranoid was a full-stop to the Sixties and the start of something truly extraordinary. Nearly five decades later, its impact still resonates...
Seasick Steve is just the latest in a long line of rock'n'roll liars By Howard Johnson Seasick Steve has been exposed as a jobbing musician rather than a jumper of trains, but haven't musicians always played fast and loose with their stories?
The 10 worst Judas Priest songs of all time By Howard Johnson The Priest have recorded some guff in their time. Here are 10 examples...
Every Song On Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, Ranked From Worst To Best By Howard Johnson One of the biggest selling hair metal compendiums in history, we've re-shaped Slippery When Wet so it gets better and better the longer you stick around...
10 Enormous Classic Rock Songs America Loved That The UK Ignored By Howard Johnson 10 songs America took to its collective heart and turned into mega-hits while the British weren't paying attention
The 10 worst Motley Crue songs of all time By Howard Johnson Not every song Mötley Crüe recorded was a stone cold classic
Every song on Metallica's Master Of Puppets ranked from worst to best By Howard Johnson Metallica's Masters Of Puppets was arguably the record that broke the band into the big time, but was every song on it a winner? We rank every track from worst to best...
