Latest articles by Max Bell
Hawkwind: This Is Your Captain Speaking... 1970-1974
Oil lights, synths, urban guerillas, naked dancers! Wake up, Captain, it’s one of the box sets of the year!
The Grateful Dead: The Best Of The Grateful Dead
Let there be songs to fill the air: two-disc set to celebrate the Dead’s half-century in music.
Roy Wood: Original Album Series
No-frills box set featuring five magnificent albums of Wood at his creative peak.
Guy Webster's Big Shots
The renowned rock and celebrity photographer talks to Classic Rock about his sumptuous book Big Shots, a captivating account of the singers, groups and Hollywood stars he’s immortalised.
Canned Heat: the 10 best songs from America’s greatest boogie band
Canned Heat were the most tragic American band of the 60s, but their music still resonates today. Here are 10 of their greatest songs
Joe Cocker: A Tribute
Max Bell remembers the life of the man with one of the UK's greatest voices
Bob Dylan & The Band: The Basement Tapes Complete: Vol II
Bob and The Band bring it all back home for a million-dollar bash.
Grateful Dead: Spring 1990: The Other One
More head magic to die for from a band who didn’t do gigs by halves.
The Story Behind The Songs: Bonnie Dobson - Morning Dew
The first song she ever wrote, it’s been covered by Robert Plant, the Jeff Beck Group, the Allman Brothers and many more. And for over three decades its authorship was in dispute....
The Kinks: Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One/Percy
Walk like a woman. Talk like a man. That’s kinky.
Quireboy Spike's celebration of Frankie Miller
Spike's '100% Pure Frankie Miller' album features Andy Fraser, Simon Kirke, Ian Hunter, Ronnie Wood, Bonnie Tyler and more...
