Paul Elliott

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

Joe Elliott looks back on a long and successful past with Def Leppard and Down ‘N’ Outz, but it hasn't all been plain sailing

Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1975 hit Saturday Night Special belied the band's pistol-packin’ image, but things were never quite that black and white

The great Ronnie James Dio died on May 16, 2010. Classic Rock magazine paid tribute to his legend in its next issue

God of Thunder Gene Simmons ponders the meaning of life, love and loss, and the end of the road for Kiss

With Highway To Hell, AC/DC raced ahead of the rest by making a record that finally helped them break America... but such success came with a huge cost

Toto's catalogue dissected for the biggest of hits and deepest of cuts from the official masters of melodic rock

In the 1980s Metallica made some of the greatest heavy metal music of all time and became the biggest cult band in the world

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

Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash talks about his career: Guns N' Roses, Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Scott Weiland, Myles Kennnedy, and the good, the bad and the ugly that came with all of them

For Rush and Envy Of None guitarist Alex Lifeson, 1977 was all about touring, punk and Panama hats – just don’t mention the sheep

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

With Thin Lizzy, on solo albums and playing jazz rock, Gary Moore proved himself to be one of the greatest guitarists of his generation. These are his best albums

The Bon Jovi albums essential to any record collection

On April 30, 1978, AC/DC took to the stage of Glasgow Apollo and played one of the best shows of their career, resulting in If You Want Blood You Got It, one of rock’s greatest live albums

The second Guns N' Roses album wasn't really an album at all, but it remains a remarkable one-off, and includes Axl Rose's most controversial song

It may have started as a happy accident but Tesla’s Five Man Acoustical Jam ushered in the MTV Unplugged era

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

Former England footballer Stuart Pearce reveals how he scored with punk rock, The Stranglers, and... Rod Stewart?

With the Black Album, Metallica changed the game for everyone... including themselves