Classic Rock Buying Guides

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

Buying guide Thin Lizzy: A charismatic frontman, a glorious twin-guitar attack, and some of the most enduring anthems in rock

Buying guide The hard-working, fuzzed-up Detroit rock’n’rollers who became blue-collar America’s – and Homer Simpson’s – favourite band

Buying guide The self-proclaimed heroic kings and defenders of True Metal: How to buy the very best of Manowar

Buying guide Europe took the classic hard rock template and made it 'continental'. Here's the countdown of the Scandi-rockers' best albums

Buying guide With Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, Scott Weiland fronted some of the best hard rock albums of the early 21st century

Buying guide A guitarist who helped define the sound of a genre, both pre- and post- Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore has a formidable back catalogue of classics

Buying guide Can's classic releases sound only like themselves, yet the band's influence lives on. These are their best albums

Buying guide Deep Purple's albums ranked, from patchy Purple to purple patches, from iconic albums to the one Ritchie Blackmore dubbed "cattle grazing" to the one with the new chap

Buying guide Foreigner blended hard rock and atmospheric ballads to the tune of more than 80 million sales - and now they're in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame