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Rick Davies takes control on Supertramp's first album without Roger Hodgson
With Roger Hodgson departed for solo pastures, Rick Davies augmented Supertramp's lineup with a couple of very special guests
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band mix it up on Nightingales & Bombers
For a band frequently pigeonholed as a singles act, Nightingales & Bombers proved Manfred Mann’s Earth Band could deliver depth and daring in equal measure
The man who invented everything cool in rock'n'roll: Alice Cooper albums ranked
Updated We examine the wild, weird, and often blood-soaked world of Alice Cooper's albums, splayed out from worst to best
The Alice Cooper Band conjure up a twisted classic on Killer
With Bob Ezrin behind the desk and a pocketful of rollicking, quality tunes, Killer – in tandem with Alice’s shlock-horror image – just couldn’t fail
The Hives celebrate sweat and rock'n'roll glory on The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
The Hives are back to ruin your bad mood
In praise of Lunachicks' day-glo classic Babysitters On Acid
Lunachicks loved splatter movies and fast food and bright red lipstick, and they poured it all into a fright-wiggy stew of hugely influential punk rock
Drugs, death and rock'n'roll - the debauched story of Cactus
When Vanilla Fudge split in 1969, Cactus emerged from the meltdown. When they weren’t in jail they were partying. When they weren’t naked they were taking drugs
That time Sylvester Stallone's brother almost became a rock star
Every song on Frank Stallone's self-titled debut album is an AOR throatpunch with a credit roll
Vagabonds, kings, fools and madmen: The Thin Lizzy albums you should definitely listen to
Thin Lizzy: A charismatic frontman, a glorious twin-guitar attack, and some of the most enduring anthems in rock
Ratt's best album Out Of The Cellar revived - just don't call it hair metal
The ultimate Ratt'N'Roll album returns
What happened when Celtic Frost embraced glam and destroyed their own career
Celtic Frost: From brutality and ethereal beauty to ham-fisted, party-glam travesties
The Quireboys nail it again on Wardour Street
Breaking news: The Quireboys finally got off the barstool long enough to make a new album
A tribute to the anguished genius of Inger Lorre and The Nymphs
There is no greater snapshot of the 1990s than the Nymphs album, but Inger Lorre and her band are remembered for all the wrong reasons
What have The Ramones ever done for us?
They weren’t just a band. The Ramones were a goddamn revolution
"Imagine if Guns N' Roses were the worst band you've ever heard": How hardcore punk titans Discharge went glam metal and sabotaged their own career
Allegedly inspired by Led Zeppelin, punk icons Discharge released Grave New World in 1986... and never really recovered
If cosmic psychedelia and demon-belching vocals are your thing, Battlesnake are the best thing
Mad Max + some crazy church = rock'n'roll on Battlsnake's The Rise And Demise Of The Motorsteeple
Fu Manchu journey to the centre of your mind on The Return Of Tomorrow
Veteran desert rockers Fu Manchu deliver heavy fuzz on 13th album
Brad Sinsel fronted four of the greatest hard rock records of all time: So why isn't he better known?
The real sound of Seattle
The T. Rex albums you should definitely own
T. Rex's singles were cloaked with glitter and stardust, but there was more to Marc Bolan than the pop charts, and these are his best albums
"Ministry's best record since we were all young and good-looking": Hopiumforthemasses is a triumphant return from Al Jourgensen
Metal machine music is back and it sounds surprisingly fresh
The Iggy Pop and Stooges albums you should definitely own
Iggy Pop burst onto the stages of Detroit like a mad bag of screaming skin ’n’ bones, and he hasn't let up in the half century since: These are his best albums
"Rick Rubin said, 'I'd like to have the original Foghat and record them', so we buried the hatchet": The story of Foghat, who turned up the blues, grew huge moustaches, and became superstars
A celebration of the long-standing appeal of slow ridin’ rock’n’rollers Foghat, who chose their name from some jumbled-up Scrabble letters
"When my helmet hit the speedometer, it said 77mph, when I came to a complete dead stop": The story of The Godz, America's great lost biker band
In the early 70s there wasn’t really any such thing as heavy metal – but there were bands like The Godz who were willing to take things to the limit, even if it cost them their lives
"Why Lucifer aren't the biggest sensation since Ghost is a mystery": Lucifer's fifth album is a deliciously subversive collection of dark should-be-hits, like Stevie Nicks fronting Black Sabbath
The fifth album from Stockholm-based Lucifer: Classic rock, if rock'n'roll really is the devil's music
