Latest articles by Neil Jeffries
How drugs and ego tore apart America’s greatest rock’n’roll band
If Ritchie Blackmore really does rejoin Deep Purple onstage for the first time in 33 years, it will be an incredible turnaround
The drugs really were working for Aerosmith on 1976’s classic Rocks album
Six months of classic rock, prog rock, stoner rock, southern rock, country rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, power pop, heavy metal, punk and all forms of rock'n'roll
Foreigner 4 is one of the greatest rock albums of the 80s – and one of the most expensive
All-killer, no-filler compilation that pairs bludgeon riffola with melody. Single-disc minimalism rules!
It probably worked on paper
In 1992 Love/Hate wanted to get their career back on track. What better way than by fastening their frontman to a homemade cross attached to the most famous landmark in Los Angeles?
Buying guide Much-loved Brit rockers Thunder have rarely come up short in more than three decades, but now face an uncertain future. These are their best albums
The story of a song that merged Mary Whitehouse's infamous clean-up campaign with tensions caused by Ritchie Blackmore
Status Quo frontman surprises himself with unexpected fifth solo album
For a much-loved ballad on 1981's The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent, UFO turned to the criminal underworld for inspiration
Buying guide Twelve months of life-enriching, extraordinary new music
Buying guide David Coverdale has been there, done that, and sung a song of sweet love while doing it
Combining Eddie Clark’s in-your-face guitar, Dave King’s high-register vocals and Jerry Shirley’s gut-rumbling drumming, Fastway peaked early
Buying guide Canada's prog rock heroes have amassed an immense discography over a 50-year career... and now they're hitting the road again
Glenn Hughes' 15th solo album could be his last
UFO's Paul Chapman-era classic No Place To Run has never sounded better
Who cares if this is three years late? The 50th anniversary of Deep Purple’s very best still blows minds
Buying guide Ginger Wildheart has multiple strings to his bow: brilliantly memorable hard rock with The Wildhearts, bleeding-heart confessionals under his own name, and plenty in between
Classy covers from late guitarist Bernie Marsden on Icons, the fourth album in a series of five
Rush's career-spanning box set R50 is a chronological 50-track anthology that documents the trio's five-decade arc
Looking for a hit of classic Yes in 2025? Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks deliver it on new album Live – Perpetual Change
