John Aizlewood
As well as Classic Rock, John Aizlewood currently writes for The Times, The Radio Times, The Sunday Times, The i Newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and Mojo amongst others. He’s written four books and appears on television quite often. He once sang with Iron Maiden at a football stadium in Brazil: he wasn’t asked back. He’s still not sure whether Enver Hoxha killed Mehmet Shehu…
Latest articles by John Aizlewood

By Malcolm Dome Published
Buying guide The Scorpions' 19 studio albums, ranked from woeful to wonderful

By John Aizlewood Published
American rock giants’ debut album, with added Harmonica Jam Bass Jelly

By John Aizlewood Published
Spock’s Beard: Still proud to be prog on The Archaeoptimist

By Jon Hotten Published
Buying guide Jethro Tull's 24 albums have taken in English folk and baroque instrumentation, plus enough thunderous riffs to keep hard rock fans happy

By John Aizlewood Published
The bonkers and the ballads

By John Aizlewood Published
Lavishly expanded 50th-anniversary edition of the album where Cockney Rebel suffered reduced billing (includes the big hit)

By John Aizlewood Published
Whoa-oh-whoa, they’ve brought the big gun back into the band for album number 16

By John Aizlewood Published
They’re ready to take on the world

By John Aizlewood Published
Age cannot wither Ian Anderson, as Jethro Tull’s new album Curious Ruminant proves

By John Aizlewood Published
The End Will Show Us How is the sixth album from Creed/Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti's side-project

By John Aizlewood Published
Elton John muses on his life, streaming now

By John Aizlewood Published
English trio SKAM find an intensity of their own on From The Depths

By Geoff Barton Published
Buying guide Deep Purple's albums ranked, from patchy Purple to purple patches, from iconic albums to the one Ritchie Blackmore dubbed "cattle grazing" to the one with the new chap

By John Aizlewood Published
American guitar hero Richie Kotzen makes heroic guitar album

By John Aizlewood Published
31 years, 10 vinyl albums, one Ian Anderson

By John Aizlewood Published
A twenty-fifth-anniversary reissue of Creed's globe-conquering second album Human Clay

By John Aizlewood Published
Paul Weller's 2003 treasure trove of obscurities, now available again

By John Aizlewood Published
Deep Purple are getting older and, remarkably, they’re getting better again

By John Aizlewood Published
He's back and he's rocking

By John Aizlewood Published
One of the busiest men in the biz gets the blues

By John Aizlewood Published
2009’s mammoth box Neil Young: Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972) reprised as an eight-CD set

By John Aizlewood Published
On Screamin’ At The Sky, album number eight, Black Stone Cherry’s formula remains reassuringly simple: songs that pack a ferocious punch

By John Aizlewood Published
Here Comes Sunshine 1973 features five Grateful Dead shows from May and June 1973
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