The Black Crowes celebrate 30 years of Shake Your Money Maker in deluxe style By Paul Elliott The Black Crowes' classic debut album Shake Your Money Maker, boxed, now with previously unreleased material
Billie Jean and big choruses: the recipe that sent FM into the Swiss charts By Paul Elliott FM singer Steve Overland reveals how positivity and lack of pressure has done the British melodic veterans good
Accept's Too Mean To Die: It’s still balls-to-the-wall, man By Paul Elliott Battle-hardened veterans Accept are still going at it with astonishing intensity on Too Mean To Die
Lars Ulrich interview: lockdown, missing live music, and the future of Metallica By Paul Elliott Metallica's Lars Ulrich reveals the album that's soundtracked his lockdown, explains why Bon Scott was great, and speaks of the brilliant unpredictability of Ritchie Blackmore
The battle for Van Halen: how Sammy Hagar triumphed over Dave Lee Roth By Paul Elliott When Dave Lee Roth walked away from Van Halen it caused a war, but new frontman Sammy Hagar ensured there would only be one winner
The inside story of the return of AC/DC: how Angus Young and Brian Johnson Powered Up By Paul Elliott They’d lost Malcolm. Brian was out. Axl was in. Phil was in trouble with the law. Then Cliff retired. it looked like AC/DC‘s high voltage had been unplugged for good... but then something sparked
Paul Rodgers: a guide to his best albums By Paul Elliott From Free to Bad Company and beyond, Paul Rodgers' back catalogue is a gold mine. Here's how to buy his best albums
The 100 greatest rock songs of the century... so far By Malcolm Dome, Paul Elliott, Dave Everley, Polly Glass, Dom Lawson, Fraser Lewry, Dave Ling, Sian Llewellyn, Luke Morton, Paul Rees, Johnny Sparks, Philip Wilding, David Stubbs, Henry Yates Many were longlisted, but this is the final selection – the best rock songs of the 21st century thus far, as voted for by you
Van Halen: a guide to their best albums By Paul Elliott Van Halen albums have it all: One of the most innovative guitarists of all time, your choice of rock star frontmen, and some great tunes. Here we pick the best of their back catalogue
The Soundtrack Of My Life: Lars Ulrich By Paul Elliott Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the album that makes him bounce around
All 57 Bon Scott AC/DC songs ranked in order of greatness By Paul Elliott Scott’s AC/DC legacy amounts to six years, six studio albums and 57 tracks. Here we rank every one that the great man recorded with the band, from high-voltage classics to obscure B-sides and everlasting anthems
Thin Lizzy's Rock Legends is a stunning tribute to the coolest band there ever was By Paul Elliott Seven-disc box set from rock legends Thin Lizzy with all the hits and 74 – yes, 74 – previously unreleased tracks
Geddy Lee: The Soundtrack Of My Life By Paul Elliott Rush frontman Geddy Lee picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals his least favourite Rush album
Biff Byford: the soundtrack of my life By Paul Elliott Saxon frontman Biff Byford on the special records, artists and gigs of lasting significance
How Back In Black brought AC/DC back from the dead By Paul Elliott The death of AC/DC’s frontman Bon Scott looked like it might deal a fatal blow to the band as well. But they got a new singer and made a career-rejuvenating record that became the biggest-selling rock album of all time: Back In Black
How Iron Maiden conquered The World By Paul Elliott The Iron Maiden story told by the "control freaks" who got them there, from East End pubs to worldwide stadiums, via sackings, internal squabbles and new business models
Rory Gallagher: a guide to his best albums By Paul Elliott Ireland’s greatest, man-of-the-people guitar hero Rory Gallagher left a tremendous legacy of albums studded with real gems
The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant bands By Dom Lawson, Paul Elliott, Dave Everley, Stephen Hill Step into a world of WTF, as we round up the biggest turkeys from metal’s greatest bands
You wanted the best, you got the best: How Kiss came Alive! By Paul Elliott As Kiss as they broke out of the clubs of New York City in 1974, it would be a long, hard slog before the rest of America paid attention
The story of the man who signed AC/DC and the greatest comeback in rock'n'roll By Paul Elliott When Phil Carson signed AC/DC to Atlantic Records, he might well have made the deal of the century. Here, he talks about their rise to fame and how they rebuilt themselves with Back In Black
Drugs and dysfunction: how Aerosmith made Draw The Line and Night In The Ruts By Paul Elliott After the world-beating one-two of Toys In The Attic and Rocks, Aerosmith were soaring. But as they started work on the budget-busting Draw The Line, drugs and dysfunction would send them into a tailspin that would take a decade to pull out of
Ian Anderson interview: the beginning, middle and end of Jethro Tull By Paul Elliott Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson might have become an average blues guitarist. Instead he became the best one-legged flute player in the world, and for more than 50 years led his band to critical acclaim and huge commercial success
Eddie Money - A guide to his best albums By Paul Elliott Eddie Money was a singer who was never as well known as he should have been, but the ‘patron saint of uncool’ made some cool records
How Ronnie James Dio saved Black Sabbath By Paul Elliott Black Sabbath might have lost Ozzy, but they recruited Dio and make one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time
Top 10 Metallica songs from the 1980s By Paul Elliott The ten greatest Metallica songs from the decade from which they exploded: the Eighties