Latest articles by Paul Elliott
How a bleak anti-war song and a massive u-turn helped push Metallica to superstar level
Metallica got their mainstream breakthrough after breaking their ‘no videos’ rule
Former Journey singer Steve Perry disappeared from music for more than 20 years. It took a tragedy to bring him back
Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio celebrated on Rainbow - The Temple Of The King 1975-76
Nine CDs of Ritchie, Ronnie and Rainbow
White Lion: The curious story of the thinking man's hair metal band
Two million sales. A dizzying rise. And a cataclysmic fall
How Boston’s ‘mad scientist’ Tom Scholz stuck it to the music industry – and sold 20 million albums
How Boston’s Tom Scholz created AOR in his basement
How Sammy Hagar helped Van Halen win the war against David Lee Roth
Van Halen lost a superstar singer when Dave Lee Roth quit the band, but new frontman Sammy Hagar and Foreigner's Mick Jones ensured the loss was short-lived
Nine Rory Gallagher albums you should definitely listen to and one to avoid
Rory Gallagher left a tremendous legacy of albums studded with real gems – and these are the best of them
What happened when Bruce Dickinson made the decision that changed his life
Becoming a band’s new singer is never easy. But when Bruce Dickinson saw Iron Maiden play, he knew he was the singer they needed
The electrifying Guns N’ Roses song that summed everything great about them right from the start
One of the all-time great album openers
Steve Harris sets the record straight about Christmas Day, Paul Di'Anno and Iron Maiden's early years
As Iron Maiden’s driving force, Steve Harris has steered the band from pub gigs and demos to the stadiums and multi-million-selling albums
Excess, eyebrows, and an extremely erratic encounter with Ozzy Osbourne
An audience with the Prince of Darkness on the Ultimate Sin tour
Hot stuff! Pick up the most underrated Rolling Stones album with 16% off this Cyber Monday
Let the Hand Of Fate guide you to the deluxe box set of Stones' classic Black And Blue - the band's first to feature Ronnie Wood
I’ve been left Comfortably Numb thanks to this 19% David Gilmour vinyl box set discount for Cyber Monday
David Gilmour's 4LP edition of Live At Pompeii is on sale for Cyber Monday - and it's packed with solo tracks and Pink Floyd classics
Here's a killer deal! Save up to 24% on The Revenge Of Alice Cooper on vinyl and CD box set this Black Friday
There's money off both the vinyl and CD editions of the 2025 album that saw Alice reunite with the surviving members of the original Cooper band
If you're yet to add any Black Sabbath to your record collection, these must-have albums are still cheap thanks to Amazon's Black Friday record sale
Black Sabbath for Black Friday - that's none more black!
I reviewed these classic Guns N’ Roses albums back in 1991 – now you can get the deluxe box set with up to 20% off this Black Friday
The Super deluxe edition of Use Your Illusion I and II is on sale in both its vinyl box set and CD edition for Black Friday
Debate: Which is the better album? Highway To Hell or Back In Black?
AC/DC's last album with Bon faces off against their first with Brian
The unholy AC/DC classic that riled the religious right – and marked the tragic end of an era
Rick Wakeman’s label hated his solo album. It went on to sell more than 15 million copies
How Rick Wakeman defied the critics and his own label to make The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Review: 74-75: Night Life / Fighting is a seven-CD countdown to Thin Lizzy's lift-off
74-75: Night Life / Fighting finds Phil Lynott, Brian Downey, Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson pointing Thin Lizzy in the right direction
The story of the magical Saxon classic inspired by heavy metal music, heavy metal fans and... Toto?
Saxon were cruising the New Wave of British Heavy Metal... and their signature tune celebrated it
The Alice Cooper song that started as a failure but finished as a smash
Rehashing a psychedelic tune from the days of Alice Cooper (the band), the man himself fashioned an OTT accompaniment to the 1972 presidential election
The story of the speed-freak anthem that was the most important song Lemmy ever wrote
A song written by the young Lemmy for Hawkwind has been through various twists - from Motörhead's own anthemic version to the unlikeliest remakes
