Mark Blake

Floyd's least famous but "most modest" member.

Kiss ain't easy.

Glad he wasn't Gene.

Knob-twiddling aristocracy.

The Uriah Heep guitarist remembers fallen friends, taking the denim look to East Germany and the days of sleeping in toilets.

Ray Manzarek died on May 20, 2013. The commemorate the first anniversary of his death, here's the obituary published in Classic Rock issue 186

Prog-rock, prog-metal and death metal make a strange hybrid - but Storm Corrosion make it work.

Please be upstanding for Slash. The guitar hero and King Conspirator talks “couch riffs”, not being a dictator and the perils of keeping a guitar in the bedroom.

Mike Rutherford celebrates his birthday on October 2. In this 2014 feature from Prog he scans through his life and music so far, and there it might all lead

Between 1971 and 1973 The Who made two of their best albums, Quadrophenia and Who’s Next, against a background of drink, drugs and fist fights. But it was Lifehouse that nearly broke the band