The best British Blues Rock albums: Direct from the Delta to Dartford and beyond, the Blues turned British rock on its head

Billy Gibbons, Peter Frampton and Nancy Wilson head-up a generation spanning gig that shows that rock music is in good health too

Gerry Rafferty’s former manager Jon Brewer recalls what it was like managing the Baker Street star in the wheeling-dealing 70s – the age of chart-fixing, payola and big money.

We talk to the surviving members of Big Country about their rise, fall, and subsequent rise — and the suicide of Stuart Adamson

How the Buzzcocks invented independent records and challenged ideas of what it meant to be a male rock star

Celebrating the diminutive wax platters that defined the sound of the 1980s

Rock music isn't dead, it's just going round in circles and eating its own tail.

The Darkness came to Glasgow to help launch Marshall’s new beers and reminded us of where the bar is actually set…

Ding-ding! Take your corners for the battle of the 90s: loud-mouthed Mancunian louts vs mockney softies

Exclusive: Classic Rock talks to Slash about getting the band back together, getting older, and getting on with Axl

Want to know the best albums by The Clash? And the worst? Here is the ultimate guide…

An on-going league table of albums reviewed by Classic Rock's Album Of The Week Club so far...

From jangly indie to dark, sexy alt-rock, the 80s was the decade when there really was an alternative to the mainstream

After punk came a new wave of bands determined to do things differently, and often sounding very unalike. We round up 10 of the best new wave and post punk albums ever made

Honest. And it has a trippy video too.

Eyewitness accounts and unseen pictures of Jimi Hendrix's last gig – a festival marred by appalling weather, machine-gun fire and marauding Hell's Angels…

We went to see Pearl Jam play the O2. We got the Trump balloon, a set that smashed the curfew, and a whole load of hysteria

Andy Fraser talks candidly about his upbringing, the decline of Paul Kossoff, his relationship with Paul Rodgers and more...

Dave Grohl is way ahead of you, that’s why.

Joe Bonamassa was discovered as a kid, mentored by the greats – and screwed by the music biz. Then he got his revenge…

Includes: stuff about their hair, Mick's terrible between-song banter, what #MeToo means to them and more…