
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

Some people still don't take Bush seriously and it's their loss
By John Aizlewood published
The Art Of Survival is the ninth album by Bush, that band from here who are big over there

Creedence Clearwater Revival's legendary London choogle can finally be heard
By John Aizlewood published
At The Royal Albert Hall finds chooglin’ chart-toppers Creedence Clearwater Revival at the peak of their powers

Finally: proof that Emerson, Lake & Palmer were actually a singles band
By John Aizlewood published
ELP releases from as far away as Japan and Angola compiled into a set of seven-inch singles and presented in a nice box

Fantastic Negrito's visionary White Jesus Black Problems sounds like everything else and nothing else
By John Aizlewood published
White Jesus Black Problems is Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz’s fifth album as Fantastic Negrito, and surely his finest

Every Scorpions album ranked from worst to best
By Malcolm Dome last updated
Updated From cult psychedelic warriors to global rock superstars, these are the Scorpions 19 studio albums, ranked from woeful to wonderful

If Robin Trower's No More Worlds To Conquer proves anything, it's that he's no more worlds to conquer
By John Aizlewood published
76-year-old Robin Trower is on admirably sparkling form on 12th studio album since the turn of the century

Scorpions' formula remains gleefully intact on the defiant Rock Believer
By John Aizlewood published
On Rock Believer, Scorpions' first album in seven years, fires are still burning

Beth Hart pays tribute to Led Zeppelin on exhilarating labour of love
By John Aizlewood published
Blues singer Beth Hart battles with the songs of Led Zeppelin, and mutual honour is preserved

The Black Keys celebrate El Camino's 10th birthday with a whopping great expansion
By John Aizlewood published
The Black Keys have released a massively expanded version of their seventh album El Camino

Radiohead's Kid A Mnesia: astonishing then, astonishing now
By John Aizlewood published
Kid A Mnesia: exploring further what Radiohead did after OK Computer

Santana's Blessings And Miracles: successfully continuing the search for singers
By John Aizlewood published
Santana's back with Blessings And Miracles and he’s brought some new friends with him. And Rob Thomas

Roger Taylor achieves unexpected solo career high on the moving Outsider
By John Aizlewood published
Outsider is Queen drummer Roger Taylor’s sixth solo album, and the first one he’s really got right

Eric Clapton's self-titled debut album: now expanded, but not essential
By John Aizlewood published
Eric Clapton releases a massively expanded version of his self-titled 1970 solo debut

Common Ground sounds like the album Big Big Train have been meaning to make all along
By John Aizlewood published
Prog-leaning collective Big Big Train hit a creative and likely commercial peak on Common Ground

Toto's 15th line-up finds its feet amidst smatterings of applause
By John Aizlewood published
Out now: Toto's With A Little Help From My Friends is live from North America

Review: Billy F Gibbons has a ball on Hardware's riff-strewn feast of scuzz
By John Aizlewood published
Out now: ZZ Top leader Billy F Gibbons' dirty third album Hardware proves he’s getting the hang of this solo lark

Kansas are musically impeccable on Point Of Know Return Live & Beyond
By John Aizlewood published
Out now: Wayward sons Kansas still carrying on to the Point Of Know Return Live & Beyond

Spiritualized set a course for the sublime on Lazer Guided Melodies
By John Aizlewood published
The Spitualized vinyl reissue programme kicks off with 1992's luxurious Lazer Guided Melodies

Jethro Tull embraced the zeitgeist on A. How does it stack up 40 years on?
By John Aizlewood published
Out today: Jethro Tull's A - one original album lovingly expanded to three CDs and three DVDs

Things are never what they seem on Bob Dylan's 1970
By John Aizlewood published
1970 features previously unreleased tracks that suggesting one of Bob Dylan’s less celebrated years deserves reappraisal

Saga intrigue as Symmetry thoughtfully reinterprets their own work
By John Aizlewood published
Symmetry finds Canadian prog maestros Saga go acoustic on their own back catalogue

Iron Butterfly: Unconscious Power - An Anthology 1967-1971
By John Aizlewood published
Unconscious Power - An Anthology 1967-1971 features 85 tracks across seven CDs from the pioneering Iron Butterfly

Neil Young's Archives Volume II: 1972-1976: 139 songs, one very singular artist
By John Aizlewood published
Compiled with discipline, diligence and no little love, Neil Young's Archives Volume II is an immersive treat
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