Jaan Uhelszki

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

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Refugee was a true band collaboration, and took a hundred takes to get right

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

Fist fights, premonitions and a plane that fell from the sky. This is the tale of Ronnie Van Zant and Lynyrd Skynyrd

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...

“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

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

Andrew Stockdale previews a 10-date tour of the UK and Ireland.

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.

Oz’s lupine loner is out to conquer again.

After bidding farewell to The Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman back over a troubled, tumultuous past - and forward to a bright future.

Sheer Heart attack.

Heart's singer on learning along with Zeppelin

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.

The self-styled wizard and true star has had a chequered career, from successful pop/rock producer to maverick concept-album composer.

The grunge-era 'nearly man' on reforming The Lemonheads with a new line-up - and how he subverted expectations by surviving, rather than politely overdosing…

The New York punk poetess re-emerges with her twelfth album - 12 cover versions, some of which she's carried with her for years.

Singer. Songwriter. Guitarist. Actor. Novelist. Playwright. Activist. Grammy winner. He’s a man of many talents, but it’s Harry Potter that’s Steve Earle’s latest addiction