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

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Not yet ratedStill Wildhearted after all these years.

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A great American songbook. Sung by a Canadian.

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Gone but not forgotten, a true Rock Legend.

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Irish blues idol’s 40th anniversary box set par excellence is a package ‘beyond fabulous’.

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40th anniversary edition of Rory Gallagher’s most celebrated recordings.

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As in Nazareth, classic songs reworked. Sharply.

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The seminal Frantic Four Live! album – with extra boogie bang for your buck.

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Six years after a 10th album called 11, Bryan Adams releases his 11th album... Tracks Of My Years containing 10 classic covers (plus one of his own).

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Joe Bonamassa's 11th solo studio album has landed. But is it business as usual or blues with a twist?

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Young Brit trio get heavy with the blues.

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Instrument-packed eleventh solo studio album is classy but sometimes cluttered.

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The Quo's 1997 Glasgow set gets a 5-CD extension

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What Steve Harris does on his busman’s holidays

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Virtuoso guitarist releases album inspired by the Cincinnati Ballet.

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Best-loved album by southern-fried boogie rockers revamped.

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Half-an-hour of style and substance from a guitar great.

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Twenty years on from their debut, the Black Crowes have gone rootsy in the Woodstock studio owned by Levon Helm of The Band, running the gamut of rock Americana.

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UFO The Complete Studio Albums 1974-1986 is the umpteenth compilation of the band’s 21-studio album back catalogue. But Rhino Records have seen to it that this is the most comprehensive...

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As good as they ever were - back to the future!

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First solo album in over a decade from the Cream bassman

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Second album from the re-formed melodic rockers.

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Debut by London four-piece sounds as ear-catching as that name.

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Second solo album from Pearl Jam/Brad guitarist.
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