Neil Jeffries
Freelance contributor to Classic Rock and several of its offshoots since 2006. In the 1980s he began a 15-year spell working for Kerrang! intially as a cub reviewer and later as Geoff Barton’s deputy and then pouring precious metal into test tubes as editor of its Special Projects division. Has spent quality time with Robert Plant, Keith Richards, Ritchie Blackmore, Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore – and also spent time in a maximum security prison alongside Love/Hate. Loves Rush, Aerosmith and beer. Will work for food.
Latest articles by Neil Jeffries

By Classic Rock Published
Members of Kiss, Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Rage Against The Machine and more reveal the albums that set them on the path to rock stardom

By Neil Jeffries Published
Alcatrazz's Jimmy Waldo on Graham Bonnet and the other Alcatrazz, Doogie White, getting heavier, and loving 'Jack The Ripper' weather

By Neil Jeffries Published
Wolfgang Van Halen comes of age on a solo second that betters his debut in every department

By Neil Jeffries Published
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on how Let There Be Rock – and a girl called Cindy – blew his mind

By Neil Jeffries Published
The Definitive 24 Nights is a deluxe upgrade of the original 24 Nights, the celebration of Eric Clapton's early ’90s Royal Albert Hall residencies

By Neil Jeffries Published
Hanoi Rocks: The Days We Spent Underground 1981-1984 celebrates the pre-major label days of the band who reinvented the template for high-energy, sleazy rock’n’roll

By Neil Jeffries Published
Originally greeted by a mixture of controversy and ridicule, Blackmore’s Night's Shadow Of The Moon has improved with age

By Neil Jeffries Published
Who let Messrs Kotzen, Sheehan and Portnoy out again?

By Neil Jeffries Published
Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous a.k.a. The Greatest Live Album Of All Time – reissued alongside the seven shows recorded to make it

By Neil Jeffries Published
Canadian ‘Metal Queen’ Lee Aaron gets a fresh polish, 40 years after her debut

By Neil Jeffries Published
If the original 30 Use Your Illusion tracks weren’t enough for you, here’s a box set that adds 47 contemporaneous live performances

By Neil Jeffries Published
Screamnasium is the fourth album from Anglo-Italian proggers O.R.k

By Neil Jeffries Published
Late Irish bluesmaster Rory Gallagher's second album gets the bells-and-whistles treatment

By Neil Jeffries Published
Here's What You Could Have Won is a series of potent rants from Kid Kapichi, Hastings’ four angriest young men

By Neil Jeffries Published
New Direction is the fourth solo album from much-travelled singing bassist Marco Mendoza

By Neil Jeffries Published
Mike Tramp's memories of Denmark are sung in his native tongue on 13th studio album For Første Gang

By Neil Jeffries Published
Twentieth-century gems from Neil Young, performed live in 2019 with Promise Of The Real

By Neil Jeffries Published
Bernie Marsden latest album pays tribute to guitar heroes and the art of the power trio

By Neil Jeffries Published
Southern rock’s brightest stars Whiskey Myers turn up the dazzle on sixth album Tornillo

By Neil Jeffries Published
Third album Mythos, Confession, Tragedy & Love delivers a sound powerful enough to match Beth McDonald’s extraordinary voice

By Neil Jeffries Published
Funk-rock lives. Dance to the hills!

By Neil Jeffries Published
Mixing proggy keyboards with radio-friendly hits, early-70s also-rans Argent sound far more vital today

By Neil Jeffries Published
Def Leppard studio album number 12 Diamond Star Halos is a sparkling set that proves there’s life in these old cats yet
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