Classic Rock Buying Guides

Buying guide If you have a friend who loves Ozzy Osbourne or Black Sabbath, these present ideas should hit the right note

Buying guide Twelve months of life-enriching, extraordinary new music

Buying guide From clothes to colouring books, these Maiden-related pressies are sure to go down a treat

Buying guide Cardiacs are easy to hate, with music that's unfathomable at times, but for fans of the weird and wonderful there's nothing else like them

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

Buying guide David Coverdale has been there, done that, and sung a song of sweet love while doing it

Buying guide W.A.S.P's infamy as leading shock metallers of the 1980s belies a back catalogue full of serious classic rock-influenced songwriting

Buying guide The six-decade career of Meat Loaf was a carnival of excess, full of theatre, motorcycles, teen lust, and soaring, roaring guitars. Here's Meat's albums from disappointing worst to dizzying best

Buying guide Canada's prog rock heroes have amassed an immense discography over a 50-year career... and now they're hitting the road again

Buying guide From the late 60s through to the late 80s, some of the greatest and most influential albums ever made were doubles

Buying guide For a brief period in the late eighties, White Lion were genuine contenders for Bon Jovi’s hair metal crown

Buying guide David Bowie’s back catalogue is one of the boldest in rock'n'roll, fizzing with reinvention and renewal - and these are his best albums

Buying guide One of the great American heartland rock'n'rollers, Detroit's favourite son Bob Seger mixed high octane rockers with the most magical of ballads for 50 years

Buying guide Proof that there's much more to Boston and the man who almost single-handedly created their sound than More Than A Feeling

Buying guide More than just a band that produced some classic music, The Doors and Jim Morrison remain iconic, their recordings embraced by each new generation

Buying guide Dismissed by many of their peers as grunge interlopers, Pearl Jam have out-written, out-sold and outlived most of those detractors

Buying guide More to Macca than The Beatles: Nine Paul McCartney albums you should listen to, and one to avoid

Buying guide Jethro Tull's 24 albums have taken in English folk and baroque instrumentation, plus enough thunderous riffs to keep hard rock fans happy

Buying guide With their twin guitar attack, Wishbone Ash created a whole new sound before venturing into folk, soft rock and – whisper it – techno