Latest articles by Jon Hotten
Burning Tree introduced Marc Ford to the Black Crowes, but their debut album was scuttled by an ambitious record label plot
Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of rock’s greatest modern supergroups got off the ground
Guitar Hero was a worldwide smash hit – and it introduced Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash to a whole new audience
1986 was the year where thrash metal broke through. We got the genre’s leading bands to look back on those whirlwind 12 months.
As MTV announces it will no longer play music videos in the UK and Europe, we look back at the moment it helped reinvent Whitesnake
In 2008, Marillion got a Classic Rock journalist to play on the album Happiness Is The Road, and things got weird
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
Fistfights, ulcers and run-ins with the law were all part of the Eagles’ everyday life: A look behind the rise, fall and unexpected rise again of the ultimate Californian band
There’s much more to Journey‘s Escape than Don’t Stop Believin’
Fish, Steve Rothery and Mark Kelly look back at the making of Marillion's best-known and most successful record, Misplaced Childhood
Use Your Illusion: Drugs, rifts, hirings, firings, and the sound of a band falling apart
Poison’s 1986 debut album Look What The Cat Dragged In is a killer glam metal album. But not everybody loved it
Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman’s history with Yes goes back to the early 70s – but there have been plenty of bumps along the way
Great White toured with Guns N' Roses, 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
Late Magnum guitarist Tony Clarkin created one of the most beloved British rock records of the 1980s in the shape of On A Storyteller’s Night
Buying guide From big hitters like Journey, Boston and Foreigner to the lesser known lights of AOR, these are the 50 albums that truly sparkle
In this classic 2009 interview, Ronnie James Dio and Tony Iommi look back at resurrecting Black Sabbath’s iconic second line-up under the namd Heaven & Hell
Buying guide Magnum have never joined rock’s big league, but over the course of 50 years these Brummies have nevertheless produced some of pomp rock’s best albums
Big hair and bad spandex almost killed any credibility metal had in the 1980s. But metal not only survived, it also came back bigger and stronger than ever
Bad Company’s second album, Straight Shooter, was the one that sealed their superstardom
Spooky houses, supergroups and the patronage of Led Zeppelin – how Bad Company became one of Britain’s biggest musical exports in the 70s
How a shy kid from Zanzibar helped propel Queen to superstardom
