AC/DC have ploughed the same glorious furrow for the best part of five decades, turning rock'n'roll cliche into art and producing some amazing albums along the way

Def Leppard have endured more heartbreak yet shifted albums than almost anyone. Here we rank those releases from worrying worst to brilliant best

How Guns N’ Roses made Welcome To The Jungle – the song that lit the fuse on the explosion that followed

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Ronnie James Dio's albums with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio helped define what a hard rock singer can be

The 10 Best Metallica songs from the 1980s, the decade from which they exploded

From the late 60s through to the late 80s, some of the greatest and most influential albums ever made were doubles

Classic Rock presents the complete list of The Eagles' nine albums, ranked from worst to best

The original members of Guns N' Roses will always be defined by the music they made with the band, but they’ve fired some other good shots too

There’s far more to the godfathers of melodic rock – and the man who almost single-handedly created their sound – than that song

East Coast brainiacs Donald Fagen and Walter Becker (Steely Dan) brought jazz smarts and lyrical sophistication to rock. But where to start?

Peter Hince was a roadie for Queen for 12 years, from A Night At The Opera until Knebworth in 1986

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Rehashing a psychedelic tune from the days of Alice Cooper (the band), the man himself fashioned an OTT accompaniment to the 1972 presidential election

ELO fused electric rock and pop with classical influences, creating a sound that was truly unique

Proving there's much more to life than Love In An Elevator

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Iron Maiden reveal the stories behind their sixteenth album The Book Of Souls

The world domination of Guns N’ Roses began not in LA, but with three chaotic weeks in London in June 1987. They came, they drank, they fought, they conquered