Classic Rock Buying Guides

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

Buying guide Producer Steve Lillywhite has his fingerprints all over a number of top rock, post-punk, new wave and art-rock albums

Buying guide A guide to former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters' best albums – picked from the Floyd recordings he dominated and his solo career

Buying guide From teenage Scorpion to UFO, MSG and beyond, guitar hero Michael Schenker has had both hands in some of hard rock’s great albums

Buying guide The name may change and the music may vary, but at his best John Mellencamp is one of the great American storytellers, and these are his best albums

Buying guide More than Brothers In Arms: The Dire Straits albums you need to know

Buying guide Or, to give this list its full title: The 20 greatest power ballads you’ve probably never heard unless you're an extreme AOR connoisseur

Buying guide A guide to the recorded solo work of the late Prince Of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne

Buying guide 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

Buying guide Five decades of rockin': a handy guide to the best albums in the world of the legendary Uriah Heep

Buying guide We look at Heart's journey from bluesy hard rock in the 1970s to chart-busting AOR anthems in the decade that followed