Journey: The Great Escape By Jon Hotten It’s not just the greatest AOR album ever made, Journey’s Escape also flies high outside the genre as one of the greatest albums in rock
The 50 Greatest AOR Albums Of All Time By Paul Elliot, Dave Ling, Jon Hotten, Sian Llewellyn From big hitters like Journey, Boston and Foreigner to the lesser known lights of AOR, these are the 50 albums that truly sparkle
Why August 2 1986 was the greatest day in the history of music By Jon Hotten One day. Three albums released. Music changed forever
Never mind the spandex: How metal got its mojo back By Jon Hotten Big hair and bad spandex almost killed any credibility metal had in the 1980s. But metal not only survived, it also came back bigger than ever. Here’s how…
Interview: Duff McKagan on sobriety, Velvet Revolver and Chinese Democracy By Jon Hotten In 2009, the sobered-up Guns N' Roses veteran spoke to Classic Rock from a position of domestic bliss and reduced drama, while promoting a new Loaded album
Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses - book review By Jon Hotten Legendary rock journalist Mick Wall was famously called out by Axl Rose on Guns N' Roses' furious Get In The Ring. Is his new book about the band the chance to settle old scores?
Sebastian Bach: "It's the music that people remember, not all the other stuff” By Jon Hotten Former Skid Row singer, Broadway star and reality TV stalwart Sebastian Bach on the best and worst drugs, Axl Rose, and working until the day you die...
The chaotic, crazed story of Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion By Jon Hotten Drugs, rifts, hirings, firings, and the sound of a band falling apart. Slash, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler and more tell the story of GN’R’s Use Your Illusion
The Strange And Terrible True Story Of Great White By Jon Hotten Great White toured with G'n R, hit the charts, and dissolved in a blur of betrayal and substance abuse. And, just when it couldn’t get worse, they played Rhode Island...
Freddie Mercury: the life and times of rock’s most outrageous star By Jon Hotten A shy kid from Zanzibar helped propel Queen to superstardom. Classic Rock chronicles the extraordinary story of the Queen singer
The Bizarre Life & Sad Death Of Nikki Sixx’s Doppelganger By Jon Hotten In the late 80s, unknown musician Matthew Trippe claimed to have replaced Nikki Sixx in Motley Crue. Now the true story of Trippe’s strange life can finally be told
Metallica: the epic story behind the Black album By Jon Hotten It was the album that transformed Metallica from rock's most uncompromising act into the biggest metal band in the world. This is how they made it…
Every Jethro Tull album ranked from worst to best By Jon Hotten Jethro Tull's 21 albums have taken in English folk and baroque instrumentation, plus enough thunderous riffs to keep hard rock fans happy. Here are 10 of their best moments
Def Leppard's Hysteria: Every Song Ranked From Worst To Best By Jon Hotten We rank every song on Def Leppard's multi-platinum classic Hysteria – in order of greatness
The 10 Essential Glam Metal Albums By Jon Hotten Equal parts hooks, hairspray and how-the hell-did-they-get-away-with-that: introducing the glam metallers
1986: the inside story of the year that thrash metal exploded By Jon Hotten Members of Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax look back on thrash metal's watershed year
Scorpions: Return To Forever (Tour Edition) By Jon Hotten Scorpions Return To Forever (Tour Edition) RCA Last year’s album, repackaged with bonuses galore.
Guns N' Roses: The Real Story Behind Their Reunion By Jon Hotten Rehearsal no-shows? Lingering bad blood? Fragile egos? A $3 million-per-night pay day? And where's Izzy?
Anvil: Anvil Is Anvil By Jon Hotten ‘Yo-ho-ho, we be the scurvy scum... Yo-ho-ho, Yo-ho-ho give us a bottle of rum...’
Steve Hackett: Premonitions: The Charisma Recordings 1975-1983 By Jon Hotten Former Genesis man gets a lavish retrospective.
Saxon: Battering Ram By Jon Hotten Veteran metallers’ 16th offers no surprises but, more importantly, no disappointments.
