Classic Rock Buying Guides

Buying guide Joe Satriani’s spectacular albums have dazzled and inspired for the best part of four decades, and these are the best of the bunch

Buying guide Since picking up the progressive rock baton from Genesis in the 80s, Marillion have recorded one of prog’s most impressive catalogues, and these are their best albums

Buying guide With The Gaslight Anthem and solo Brian Fallon has made some marvellous records, but industry pressures extracted a heavy toll

Buying guide Although never rock A-listers, enduring Scots Nazareth have a recorded catalogue peppered with timeless bluesy rock gems. These are their best albums

Buying guide From psychedelia to wild success, the very best of the band who delivered The Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall

Buying guide From anonymous sixties session men to globe-straddling seventies rock goliaths - the albums that soundtracked Led Zeppelin's conquest of Earth

Buying guide Tom Morello is best known as the guitarist with RATM, but there’s much more of his playing to marvel at than that - and these are his best albums

Buying guide From Free to Bad Company and beyond, Paul Rodgers' back catalogue is a gold mine, and these are his best albums

Buying guide Celebrating the musical telepathy of the Allman Brothers Band

Buying guide The members of Guns N' Roses will always be defined by the music made with the band, but that's not all they've done

Buying guide The best albums from producer Robert John ‘Mutt’ Lange, unparalleled audio perfectionist and man with the Midas touch, whose sonics sent the careers of AC/DC and Def Leppard soaring

Buying guide Without the man who raised pop lyrics to the level of poetry, we might still be waiting for the concept of album-oriented music

Buying guide Over the course of 32 studio albums, Elvis Costello has explored terrains that include country music, jazz, soundtrack work and even opera

Buying guide Never mind the width, feel the quality: With five albums in 46 years, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour isn't the most prolific of solo acts, but the standard is high

Buying guide The 80s also saw the blues transform like never before, with Stevie Ray Vaughan drawing in hard rockers and purists alike and Robert Cray taking it to the masses

Buying guide With glorious Afro-Latin rhythms and ill-advised collaborations, Carlos Santana’s 60-year career path needs to be negotiated with care. These are his best albums

Buying guide Eric Clapton's best albums, the cream of his decades-stradling crop

Buying guide Only got half an hour to spare? These mighty producers of musical brevity are here to answer your prayers

Buying guide The Cure have gone from sullen outsiders to stadium-sized riff monsters via all points in between