Latest articles by Kris Needs
Few bands shook the UK music scene like NYC punks the Ramones did in 1976. Fewer still can claim they actually built one. Welcome to a revolution
They’re barely even a cult band – but the Dirty Strangers have the Keith Richards seal of approval
Classic Rock writer, former Zigzag editor and Motörhead biographer Kris Needs was also Lemmy’s neighbour in London’s Notting Hill
The deluxe edition reissue of Axis: Bold As Love includes 40 bonus outtakes, alternative versions, TV and radio appearances
When Motörhead supported Ozzy Osbourne on his first American arena tour, it was the start of a beautiful friendship
When bluesman Freddie King pulled out of a show in early 1970, a young band from Birmingham stepped in
Mahavishnu Orchestra's The Inner Mounting Flame was the first jazz-rock album that found favour among significant numbers of rock aficionados
What happened to Jeff Lynne in between the Idle Race and the Electric Light Orchestra
After making an unlikely connection, three interviews with a punk magazine editor – which she said felt like psychiatrist talks – illustrate her rapid development from Never For Ever to Hounds Of Love
An exclusive extract from Kris Needs' biography Make My Day: The Rock'n'Roll Story Of Eddie Clarke
The magic and mystery surrounding the architect of Pink Floyd endures – and a larger canvas emerges of a confident, multi-talented originator...
That old wax magic works for a final lineup ‘best-of’ spread over eight 45rpm discs
Buying guide Can's classic releases sound only like themselves, yet the band's influence lives on. These are their best albums
Stax legend Steve Cropper fires up the protest soul
Of its time and on vinyl, the six-song set that made Ten Years After US festival titans
Famed for Another Girl, Another Planet but increasingly influential, there's much more to The Only Ones than "the greatest rock single ever recorded"
This mothership of David Bowie box sets covers Ziggy Stardust's conception, birth and lift-off
Before they became 70s chart stars and (later) a beloved heritage act, Mott The Hoople were a wilder, more dangerous proposition – as their incendiary debut album proved
Feats don't fail the blues as swamp rock veterans Little Feat tackle Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters on their first album in more than a decade
What do The Kinks, Stones and The Who all have in common? For one thing, a harmonica-playing bluesman nicknamed 'Squirrel'
A weightier second helping of Defiance from Ian Hunter in a star-studded, covid-era purple patch
Combat Rock would gave The Clash their biggest singles, but it was only part of a bigger, more ambitious mothership
Black Gold was an unfinished, autobiographical suite that may have provided the foundation for Jimi Hendrix's fifth studio album
After moving to New York to escape an abusive father, pre-Dee Dee Ramone Doug Colvin wrote a song about the coastal escape he frequented
