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

From Free to Bad Company and beyond, Paul Rodgers' back catalogue is a gold mine. Here's how to buy his best albums

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 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

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the album that makes him bounce around

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

Rush frontman Geddy Lee picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals his least favourite Rush album

Saxon frontman Biff Byford on the special records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

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

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

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

Step into a world of WTF, as we round up the biggest turkeys from metal’s greatest bands

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

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

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

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 was a singer who was never as well known as he should have been, but the ‘patron saint of uncool’ made some cool records

Black Sabbath might have lost Ozzy, but they recruited Dio and make one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time

The ten greatest Metallica songs from the decade from which they exploded: the Eighties

In 2017, Classic Rock spoke to Neil Peart and found out there was much more to the Rush Drumming legend than just paradiddles, polyrhythms and labyrinthine lyrics

Remember the 80s? Amazingly, touring partners Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx and Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott do – and Classic Rock got them to compare notes

Since picking up the progressive rock baton from Genesis in the 80s, Marillion have recorded one of prog’s most impressive catalogues. These are their best albums

Heart went from bluesy hard rock in the 1970s to chart-busting AOR anthems in the decade that followed via some stone-cold classic cuts