Mick Wall

AC/DC were at the top of their game, but their singer was heading down a dangerous path. His last show was on January 27, 1980, and just three weeks later he was dead

An excerpt from Mick Wall's book Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix

How did AC/DC follow the globe-conquering success of Back In Black? With For Those About To Rock, and great difficulty

Ginger Wildheart's story tells of growing up with violence, escaping into the redemptive arms of rock’n’roll, and going on to become a prolific and acclaimed songwriter

After their multi-million-selling album Permanent Vacation, it was time for Aerosmith to go one bigger. They stepped up to the plate, swung hard and hit a home run with Pump

Half-black, half-white, part Catholic, part God-hater – Phil Lynott could write poetry one minute and knock you out cold the next

Mahavishnu Orchestra took ‘out there’ to a new level with music that was as bold, ballsy and exciting as when Hendrix first landed

As the 60s ended, session supremo Jimmy Page put together a band and a plan that would change rock forever - even if it did owe a whole lot to music's past

After spending the last four decades immersed in music, Fish is calling time. But with his farewell album, the prog legend is signing off with the best record of his solo career

We celebrate half a century of Thin Lizzy through the eyes of the men who played with Phil Lynott and knew him best: guitarist Scott Gorham and drummer Brian Downey

Forty years ago, Motorhead released an album that turned them into unlikely stars. Next stop? America. But America wasn’t yet ready for Motorhead

Robby Krieger might have become a trumpet player. Instead he swapped the horn for guitar, joined The Doors and became part of one of rock's most influential and legendary bands

How Def Leppard's initially under performing High 'N' Dry album launched them to super-stardom and changed the face of the band forever

Ozzy, Geezer and Tony reminisce about the early days of Black Sabbath and the creation of a genre

Lemmy on his band's Number One album, recording anywhere but London and why it still stands up all these years later

Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells A Story arrived by accident, was rescued by some last-minute songs, a fat slice of luck and a dozen hard-drinking hombres – and helped launch Rod Stewart’s solo career

Steve Howe was the guitarist with proto-psychedelic Brit-rockers Tomorrow. Then he joined Yes and embarked on a hugely successful career as a member of prog royalty

With music written by a pre-Dio Vivian Campbell, Rainbow In The Dark was part of Holy Diver, an album Ronnie James Dio said was “one of the proudest things I’ve ever done”

In August 1975, Led Zep were about to begin another huge US tour – then disaster struck. But out of the wreckage climbed Presence, and an album Jimmy Page rates as one of their best

With drug use rampant in the band, it’s no surprise that the 80s and 90s delivered Fleetwood Mac some dizzying highs and crashing comedowns

It was the year Black Sabbath fired Ozzy, AC/DC were on a Highway To Hell and Judas Priest were Unleashed In The East. Oh, and some band called Motorhead gave us Overkill and Bomber

Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page in one band? What could possibly go wrong? This is the story of The Firm

Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones tell us how Led Zeppelin's How The West Was Won live album and DVD took shape

They had Eric Clapton. They had Jeff Beck. They had Jimmy Page. In the late 60s, no other band could get close to them. And without The Yardbirds, there would be no Led Zeppelin

We spoke to modern-day axemasters Zakk Wylde, Phil Demmel, Matt Heafy and Gus G to find out who the lords of the riff really are