Paul Elliott

Updated A guide to the recorded work of Ozzy Osbourne: Black Sabbath frontman, rock icon, reality TV star, national treasure

Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground's influence would carry over generations, from David Bowie to punk rock and beyond. These are his best albums

It’s easy to forget that there’s more to Macca than The Beatles and the Frog Chorus: Just take a look at his rock’n’roll legacy

Just four years after Live Aid, Brian May gave an interview about the band's new album, The Miracle, and revealed where Queen lost their way

The booze was starting to kill Alice Cooper, so his wife and manager checked him into an asylum – little knowing it would inspire his most personal work

Dave Mustaine hit the canvas but lifted himself back up and found God, and still has the ambition to make Megadeth the biggest metal band in the world

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson explains why even Rush's worst songs might have sounded brilliant on ecstasy

From stadium-filling rock to the ultimate lighter-waving ballads, AOR titans Journey and their various frontmen have done it all

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him, and which song he'd have played at his funeral

The setbacks Def Leppard have faced over the past 45 years would have finished off many lesser bands, but now they’re very much on the up again

Five young hopefuls called Guns N’ Roses walked into a recording studio. They walked out with one of the best debut albums ever, but Appetite For Destruction could have turned out very differently

Ireland’s greatest, man-of-the-people guitar hero Rory Gallagher left a tremendous legacy of albums studded with real gems

One of the most successful solo female rock artists of the 80s, Pat Benatar became a superstar by doing things her way or no way

Joe Elliott looks back on a long and successful past with Def Leppard and Down ‘N’ Outz, but it hasn't all been plain sailing

Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1975 hit Saturday Night Special belied the band's pistol-packin’ image, but things were never quite that black and white

The great Ronnie James Dio died on May 16, 2010. Classic Rock magazine paid tribute to his legend in its next issue

God of Thunder Gene Simmons ponders the meaning of life, love and loss, and the end of the road for Kiss

With Highway To Hell, AC/DC raced ahead of the rest by making a record that finally helped them break America... but such success came with a huge cost

Toto's catalogue dissected for the biggest of hits and deepest of cuts from the official masters of melodic rock

In the 1980s Metallica made some of the greatest heavy metal music of all time and became the biggest cult band in the world

Proof that there's much more to Boston, the godfathers of melodic rock – and the man who almost single-handedly created their sound – than More Than A Feeling