Latest articles by Paul Elliott
Buying guide One of the most successful solo female rock artists of the 80s, Pat Benatar became a superstar by doing things her way or no way
With a cracking new album and a new image, former Rainbow and Deep Purple singer Joe Lynn Turner is loving his fresh start
Buying guide Survivor survived a change of singer to become a rare example of a band achieving mainstream success with two different frontmen – and these are their best albums
Venom legend Cronos on the birth of black metal, the success of former support band Metallica and why there’s zero chance of the classic line-up getting back together
From power ballads to balls-out OTT anthems, and from mega-hits to cult classics, the rock duet comes in all shapes and sizes
Fronted by vocal powerhouse Joyce Kennedy, Mother’s Finest were simply too ahead of the game: black musicians playing rock. If they’d arrived a decade later they could have been huge
Six songs to introduce you to the fierce funk-rock wizardry of Atlanta's very own Mother's Finest
A multi-disc box set of Queen's The Miracle, featuring six previously unreleased tracks
Black Sabbath's Dio-era classics Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules have been reissued as Deluxe Editions (again) but the quality still shines
The best Queen songs Freddie Mercury didn't sing
Just four years after Live Aid, Brian May gave an interview about the band's new album, The Miracle, and revealed where Queen lost their way
In this interview from 1989, just four years after Live Aid, Brian May talks about the band's new album, The Miracle
Step into a world of WTF, as we round up the biggest turkeys from metal’s greatest bands
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the album that makes him bounce around
After reuniting in LA in 2011, things quickly spun out of control for Black Sabbath, Iommi's cancer, Bill Ward's controversial departure, Ozzy falling off the wagon, how did 13 ever get made?
Knife-carrying thug, practical joker, drug fiend and the inventor of heavy metal, Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi on his life less ordinary
In 1979, Ozzy was out of Black Sabbath and on the ropes. Then he made the two albums that saved his career – and his life
From his seismic debut with the band to the defining live album of their careers and the sprawling concept album that divided fans, Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson picks three of his favourites
From Number Of The Beast to The Book Of Souls, Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson and co look back at every studio album Iron Maiden have recorded
"Imagine me trying to play Run To The Hills at fucking seventy-three years old!" Nicko McBrain might not be ready to retire yet, but he knows he's not going to go on forever...
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
Even the best can get it wrong sometimes: here's the worst albums by 10 of rock's greatest bands
In the 1980s Metallica made some of the greatest heavy metal music of all time and became the biggest cult band in the world
