Paul Elliott

An audience with the Prince of Darkness on the Ultimate Sin tour

AC/DC's last album with Bon faces off against their first with Brian

How Rick Wakeman defied the critics and his own label to make The Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Saxon were cruising the New Wave of British Heavy Metal... and their signature tune celebrated it

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

A song written by the young Lemmy for Hawkwind has been through various twists - from Motörhead's own anthemic version to the unlikeliest remakes

A Beatle approved it. The record company hated it. How an existential pop-rock masterpiece turned its creators into unlikely transatlantic superstars

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

For a brief period in the late eighties, White Lion were genuine contenders for Bon Jovi’s hair metal crown

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

More to Macca than The Beatles: Nine Paul McCartney albums you should listen to, and one to avoid

From teenage Scorpion to UFO, MSG and beyond, guitar hero Michael Schenker has had both hands in some of hard rock’s great albums

Iron Maiden's longtime manager Rod Smallwood tells ten stories of ten landmark shows

Or, to give this list its full title: The 20 greatest power ballads you’ve probably never heard unless you're an extreme AOR connoisseur

A guide to the recorded solo work of the late Prince Of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne

We look at Heart's journey from bluesy hard rock in the 1970s to chart-busting AOR anthems in the decade that followed