Latest articles by Paul Elliott
How Boston’s Tom Scholz created AOR in his basement
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
Buying guide Rory Gallagher left a tremendous legacy of albums studded with real gems – and these are the best of them
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
One of the all-time great album openers
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
An audience with the Prince of Darkness on the Ultimate Sin tour
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
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
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
Black Sabbath for Black Friday - that's none more black!
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
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
74-75: Night Life / Fighting finds Phil Lynott, Brian Downey, Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson pointing Thin Lizzy in the right direction
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
Buying guide From the late 60s through to the late 80s, some of the greatest and most influential albums ever made were doubles
Buying guide For a brief period in the late eighties, White Lion were genuine contenders for Bon Jovi’s hair metal crown
Buying guide Proof that there's much more to Boston and the man who almost single-handedly created their sound than More Than A Feeling
