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The Who in 1967

Songs about body odour and a bath full of beans: The story of The Who Sell Out

By Neil Griffith, Ken Sharp

The Who Sell Out is A Pop Art album of dazzling music interspersed with radio-style ads and jingles and released in an iconic sleeve: Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey spill the beans

Kiss - Meet The Phantom Of The Park artwork

How Kiss met the Phantom of the Park and made rock'n'roll's worst movie

By Ken Sharp

Kiss wanted to be stars of the silver screen as well as the concert stage but they couldn’t act, they had no budget, and Phantom Of The Park went horribly wrong

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix: the life and times of a genius

By Max Bell, Johnny Black, Rob Hughes, Hugh Fielder, Ken Sharp, Mick Wall, Henry Yates

Classic Rock talks to Jimi Hendrix's friends, admirers and other musicians about his life and importance

Bob Seger live in Atlanta in 1976

How Bob Seger changed the face of American Music

By Ken Sharp

Bob Seger spent 50 years chronicling the minutia of the blue collar working man, America's heartlands, and the vagaries of love and in doing so created a world-beating musical legacy

Down To Earth: How Angel Fell From Grace

By Ken Sharp

Onstage illusion! Playboy Bunnies! White spandex! It's been over 40 years since Angel's debut, but whatever happened to the Kiss stable-mates who Gene Simmons refused to share a stage with?

Steven Tyler having his hair and close attended to by two female stylists

Steven Tyler: a little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll

By Ken Sharp

Aerosmith’s frontman Steven Tyler is the latest rock star to head to Nashville with new album We're All Someobody From Somewhere

Cheap Trick: "For us, ...Budokan was like winning the lottery"

By Ken Sharp

Cheap Trick’s At Budokan is widely hailed as one of rock’s greatest live albums. All four Tricksters tell Classic Rock the story of big dreams, hard work and plain dumb luck

Boston: Labour Of Love

By Ken Sharp

Driven on by one man’s perfectionism, Boston’s first album took seven painstaking years to complete. Then the band got a major-label deal – and were forced to record it all again.