Articles by Ian Fortnam

Hawkwind - Road To Utopia album review

By Ian Fortnam

Hawkwind: Orchestrated? Or castrated? Debatable

Alice Cooper – A Paranormal Evening At The Olympia Paris album review

By Ian Fortnam

The Coop’s latest live album: more meat and potatoes than blood and gore

Paul Rodgers - Free Spirit album review

By Ian Fortnam

The definitive voice of British soul and blues, Paul Rodgers, free to do what he wants

"Jim Morrison’s a talentless bastard – and he’s dead" Thom Yorke's long lost interview

By Ian Fortnam

Back in 1992, fledgling music journalist Ian Fortnam interviewed neophyte rock type Thom Yorke for The Scene fanzine. The result? A fascinating early insight into one of today’s more reclusive musicmakers

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Twilight Of The Mortals by Mont Sherar - review

By Ian Fortnam

Boxed volume of Killing Joke at work, rest and play

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London Rock: The Unseen Archives by Alec Byrne - review

By Ian Fortnam

Vintage snapper’s priceless legacy curated

American Valhalla - dvd review

By Ian Fortnam

Unflinching cinematic record of rock’s process in the raw

Ringo Starr - Ringo album review

By Ian Fortnam

Remember fun? Before we all grew up it sounded like this

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Billion $ Babies - First Ever Live Show: Flint 1977 album review

By Ian Fortnam

What the Coopers did next

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Various - Concert For George album review

By Ian Fortnam

All-star tribute show revisited in bulk

Gwenno - Le Kov album review

By Ian Fortnam

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Multilingual ex-Pipette’s electro-psych second

The Z - People Of The Mirror World album artwork

The Z - People Of The Mirror World album review

By Ian Fortnam

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Tune in, turn on, freak out

The Osiris Club - The Wine-Dark Sea album artwork

The Osiris Club - The Wine-Dark Sea album review

By Ian Fortnam

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Consolidating second from beaked brotherhood

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Procol Harum - There’ll Still Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017 album review

By Ian Fortnam

Glorious collection from orchestral prog prime movers

Suzi Quatro at home in 2017, shot exclusively for Classic Rock.

Suzi Quatro: I haven’t seen many people walk my path, even after all these years

By Ian Fortnam

The only Penthouse centrefold ever to be allowed to keep her clothes on, Suzi Quatro was “a pin-up for the guys and a hero to the women”

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The Yardbirds - Yardbirds ’68 album review

By Ian Fortnam

Plant-free proto-Zep. What wonders might have been, eh, readers?

XTC - Black Sea album review

By Ian Fortnam

Prog-pop, post-punk, art-rock hybrid receives a well-deserved expanded reappraisal

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Atomic Rooster - Sleeping For Years: The Studio Recordings ’70-’74 album review

By Ian Fortnam

Four-disc encapsulation of undervalued prog pioneers

The Enid And Robert John Godfrey - The Music Of William Arkle... album artwork

The Enid And Robert John Godfrey - The Music Of William Arkle... album review

By Ian Fortnam

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Mystic-inspired classical ambience

A tribute to the Sex Pistols, by Duff McKagan, Phil Collen and Billy Duffy

By Ian Fortnam

The new album by The Professionals features Sex Pistols' alumni Steve Jones and Paul Cook... and a cast of other familiar faces

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Dhani Harrison - In///Parallel album review

By Ian Fortnam

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Debut solo album from Grammy-winning son of George Harrison

The Professionals: "We didn't want to do this as a nostalgia trip"

By Ian Fortnam

After the Pistols dream ended as a nightmare, Steve Jones and Paul Cook eventually returned with The Professionals. Now the latest line-up are giving it another go and “having a bit of fun”

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How The Beatles Changed The World by Tom O’Del book review

By Ian Fortnam

The World At War with catchier tunes

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Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis book review

By Ian Fortnam

The waiting’s over... here’s the man

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Sweet - Sensational Sweet album review

By Ian Fortnam

They could kill you with a wink of their eye