Classic Rock

It was a movement that created a music revolution, and had more than its fair share of tragedies. But who were the monkeys and who were the organ grinders when grunge’s tune started playing?

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London electro-punks Oh800 talk us through the 10 best songs from Talking Heads

She grew up in Detroit with Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent, but became a glam-rock superstar in The UK: it's Suzi Quatro

Judas Priest defended the faith, Echo & The Bunnymen went big and Prince proved just how funky he really was: we round up the best albums of 1984

They toured with the Sisters of Mercy and Siouxsie and occasionally featured members of PiL and Motorhead. Now Aussie swamp rockers The Scientists are back and asking themselves, "How the fuck did we not make it?"

It may have been released 48 years ago, but Black Sabbath’s Paranoid has lost none of its unearthly power. Even when you rank its mighty contents in order of ascending greatness

Was Hendrix murdered by a manager with debts to the Mafia? Hendrix biographer Harry Shapiro talks to former roadie James ‘Tappy’ Wright and reconsiders the mysteries surrounding Jimi's death

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Is it worth going wireless if your music won’t sound as good? We take a look at the science behind the streaming