Classic Rock Buying Guides

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

Buying guide Never the most prolific of bands, The Who have released some of the most enduring and influential albums in rock history

Buying guide Although the strength of the Goo Goo Dolls' songwriting has been frustratingly inconsistent, the band have shown moments of real class

Buying guide The Beatles have been gone for more than half a century, but their shadow still looms large over rock music and rock musicians - and these are their best albums

Buying guide Steely Dan brought jazz smarts and lyrical sophistication to rock, conjuring up brainiac music that sold millions - just don't mention 'yacht rock'

Buying guide Mötley Crüe left behind them a trail of destruction and nine albums – here ranked from worst to best

Buying guide Motörhead’s appetite for virulent, violent melodies charted over the course of 23 ear-threatening albums

Buying guide Bolstered by the genius songwriting and production of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' best albums contain some of the greatest music you’ll ever hear

Buying guide Queen albums, like the band, were brilliant, flamboyant and preposterous, and the work of a band who lit up the 70s and 80s and remain a juggernaut today

Buying guide Eddie Money was a singer who was never as well known as he should have been, but the ‘patron saint of uncool’ made some cool records