Latest articles by Jaan Uhelszki
Mike Campbell on life as Tom Petty’s right hand man and the highs and lows of being a Heartbreaker
The life and times of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell
How American guitar icon Bonnie Raitt helped carry the blues into the 21st century
Bonnie Raitt’s 17th album Dig In Deep proved that the blues was alive and well in 2016
The last stand of rock's great revolutionaries, the MC5
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
"This is a teaching album": Why I ❤️ Led Zeppelin IV, by Heart's Ann Wilson
Heart's singer Ann Wilson remembers learning along with Led Zeppelin
"I don't write songs like a twenty-one-year-old any more, and I don't want to. I have much more to say": The story of Joan Jett, rebel with a cause
How teenage Runaway Joan Jett turned into a grown-up luminary for music with attitude, humanist politics and gender equality
"If you're in an abusive situation you need a safe place. I took refuge in music. Rock'n'roll was my safe place": the life and legacy of Tom Petty
Jaan Uhelszki looks back at the career of Tom Petty, one of the great American songwriters
How Patti Smith twisted a slice of 60s garage rock and announced herself to the world
More a rewrite than a cover, Patti Smith’s powerful version of Gloria retained little of Them's original
The story behind Refugee by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Refugee was a true band collaboration, and took a hundred takes to get right
Injury and intrigue: The story of Harvest, the album Neil Young loved then came to hate
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
How Led Zeppelin III was their most misunderstood album
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: private planes, accidental hashcakes, and one final spin around the globe
Kiss are on their farewell tour, so we joined the Gods Of Thunder on their private jet to look back over an explosive career
Lynyrd Skynyrd: A southern ghost story
Fist fights, premonitions and a plane that fell from the sky. This is the tale of Ronnie Van Zant and Lynyrd Skynyrd
Who is the real Paul Stanley?
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...
Cult Heroes: The Stooges - the chaotic tale of America's first punk band
“We wrote the first rock opera. About a mouse. We beat The Who by a couple of years” - Iggy Pop and others tell the gonzoid story of The Stooges' early years
The troublesome search for Ronnie Montrose
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
Bonnie Raitt: She Writes The Songs
You don't win 10 Grammys without knowing how to put a top tune or two together.
Bonnie Raitt: Lady Talks The Blues
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.
Gregg Allman: Natural Born Survivor
After bidding farewell to The Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman back over a troubled, tumultuous past - and forward to a bright future.
My First Love: Heart's Ann Wilson on Led Zeppelin IV
Heart's singer on learning along with Zeppelin
Q&A: Neil Young
Reunited with his CSN&Y brethren for a US tour, the Canadian expat maverick expounds on how they got on board his anti-Iraq War protest.
