Latest articles by Jaan Uhelszki
The story of Tom Petty's classic Wildflowers, an album full of sadness, humour and hope
When Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers teamed up with a hotshot new producer for a 1979 classic, it nearly broke the band
Iggy Pop and others tell the gonzoid story of The Stooges' early years
Fist fights, premonitions and a flight into hell: This is the tale of Ronnie Van Zant and Lynyrd Skynyrd
The original Alice Cooper band have reunited for their first album in more than 50 years. This is how it happened
The life and times of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell
Bonnie Raitt’s 17th album Dig In Deep proved that the blues was alive and well in 2016
In 1968 the MC5’s Kick Out The Jams album was a grenade thrown into the music scene. Wayne Kramer acted as guardian of the band’s legacy until he died earlier this year, after making one final album
Heart's singer Ann Wilson remembers learning along with Led Zeppelin
How teenage Runaway Joan Jett turned into a grown-up luminary for music with attitude, humanist politics and gender equality
Jaan Uhelszki looks back at the career of Tom Petty, one of the great American songwriters
More a rewrite than a cover, Patti Smith’s powerful version of Gloria retained little of Them's original
With its recording set against a background of drugs and pain, yet written by an “in love and on-top-of-the-world-type guy”, perhaps it’s no surprise that Neil Young’s Harvest divides opinion so greatly
Inspired by Welsh countryside, suffused with folk, acoustic and pastoral music, it was the Zeppelin album that confounded critics but truly brokered their legend
Kiss are on their farewell tour, so we joined the Gods Of Thunder on their private jet to look back over an explosive career
On stage he’s the sex-crazed Starchild, the Kiss icon who rock’n’rolls all night. Off stage he’s a home-builder, chef, and family man who has finally grown to accept himself...
For two years Classic Rock tried to track down America’s most elusive guitar hero. With the help of bandmates and producer, the feature was filed. Then the news broke that Ronnie had died
You don't win 10 Grammys without knowing how to put a top tune or two together.
Twenty albums, 10 Grammys and three comebacks in, Bonnie Raitt could be taking it easy. But the blues megastar still has a lot to do and say.
After bidding farewell to The Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman back over a troubled, tumultuous past - and forward to a bright future.
