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Peter Frampton does it again: More dates added to Let’s Do It Again! tour
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There's a horn-throwing Rob Halford action figure on the market and only 164 shopping days until Christmas
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“Great to have a chance to work with my old friend on something from our youth." Genesis confirm September release date for The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary box
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Big Big Train reveal special warm-up show ahead of Cruise To The Edge 2026
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"The fart jokes were rampant": Lzzy Hale reflects on touring with Skid Row
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Latest Classic Rock News

Peter Frampton does it again: More dates added to Let’s Do It Again! tour
By Fraser Lewry published
The Let’s Do It Again! tour follows the Never Say Never tour, the Never EVER Say Never tour and the Positively Thankful tour

There's a horn-throwing Rob Halford action figure on the market and only 164 shopping days until Christmas
By Fraser Lewry published
Judas Priest's Metal God becomes the latest musician to be immortalised in six-inch plastic

“Great to have a chance to work with my old friend on something from our youth." Genesis confirm September release date for The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary box
By Jerry Ewing published
Genesis's 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway will now be released on September 26

Big Big Train reveal special warm-up show ahead of Cruise To The Edge 2026
By Jerry Ewing published
Big Big Train will preview new material from the upcoming studio album at a Cruise To The Edge 2026 warm-up show at Southampton's The 1865 in March

"The fart jokes were rampant": Lzzy Hale reflects on touring with Skid Row
By Emma Johnston published
"The meat is so sweaty"

Queens Of The Stone Age announce UK and European shows
By Fraser Lewry published
The Catacombs tour follows the release of the Queens Of The Stone Age: Alive In The Catacombs film and live album

Paul Weller and members of The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Specials to DJ at Artists For Gaza fundraiser
By Paul Brannigan published
"Expect community. Expect feeling. Expect resistance."
Latest Classic Rock Features

How Aerosmith grew to hate each other but learned to love again
By Ken McIntyre published
Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer on the making of Aerosmith's Music From Another Dimension!

10 bands that will fill the Black Sabbath-shaped hole in your life
By Classic Rock published
Black Sabbath may be no more, but there are still plenty of bands they’ve inspired out there

The Renaissance Man: Ginger Wildheart albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
By Philip Wilding, Neil Jeffries, Fraser Lewry published
Ginger Wildheart has multiple strings to his bow: brilliantly memorable hard rock with The Wildhearts, bleeding-heart confessionals under his own name, and plenty in between

Masters Of Reality's Chris Goss on Ginger Baker, David Bowie and the aggression of Rick Rubin
By Jo Kendall published
The gospel according to Chris Goss

The day a metal superstar was almost decapitated on live TV by one of Britain's most popular singers
By Paul Brannigan published
Remember that time a metal legend was almost decapitated on British TV?

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 14, 2025
By Polly Glass published
Eight new songs you need to hear right now from Jack Black, Halestorm, 38 Special and more

Did David Bowie really have a hand in NINE classic albums in a three year period? Yes, he did.
By Scott Rowley published
After two failed solo albums, in the period between 1971 and 1974, David Bowie worked on nine of rock's greatest albums. WTF?

"Y’know what I'm proud of? That they're all alive": Machine guns, snakes and missing millions – Alan Niven, the first manager of Guns N' Roses, looks back
By Scott Rowley last updated
When Guns N' Roses released Appetite For Destruction they were managed by Alan Niven. This is how he dealt with The Most Dangerous Band In The World
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Filler rears its head on Lenny Kravitz's breakthrough album Are You Gonna Go My Way
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Everyone seems to love that title track. The rest? Your mileage may vary

The book that Axl Rose doesn't want you to read: Alan Niven’s incredible book takes you inside peak Guns N’ Roses like no other
By Scott Rowley published
Sound N' Fury, due to be published in July, has been pushed back. But it might be the best book about Guns N' Roses ever written.

Jethro Tull's expanded Still Living In The Past fails to produce much magic from the vaults
By Hugh Fielder published
Daze of future past

King Diamond brings horror, heavy metal and a touch of welcome silliness to Rock Imperium Festival
By Catherine Morris published
King Diamond rolls back the years with a bombastic, theatrical showing in Murcia

Garbage's classic electro-grunge-pop debut, revisited
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Combining Massive Attack with Nine Inch Nails and the Smashing Pumpkins was always a great elevator pitch

Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning: our ultimate review of their triumphant final show
By Rich Hobson published
Our blow-by-blow review of the biggest heavy metal show ever as Black Sabbath triumphantly bow out