Classic Rock Buying Guides

Buying guide The best albums from the Nashville label that brought together rock'n'roll and soul

Buying guide T-Bone Walker had an eye-popping live show, soulful vocals and a supple guitar style that provided a blueprint for what we know as modern blues today. These are his best albums…

Buying guide One of the greatest blues-rock/fusion guitarists ever, Jeff Beck's solo career spanned six decades. These are his best albums

Buying guide Prog? Art-rock? AOR? Pop? We don our capes and peer through the dry ice to guide you through the best Genesis albums

Buying guide Too punk to be pop, too loads of other things to be punk, The Stranglers had dozens of hits by doing it their own, unique, way

Buying guide Before Frankie Miller's career was ended tragically by injury, his records showed just how good a songwriter and great a singer he really was

Buying guide Heart-shaped guitars, Berklee music school and Frank Zappa – Steve Vai's had no ordinary career. Here are each of his albums, ranked from worst to best

Buying guide The musicians may have changed, but the search for musical transcendence never wavered. These are the very best albums by Yes

Buying guide T. Rex's singles were cloaked with glitter and stardust, but there was more to Marc Bolan than the pop charts, and these are his best albums

Buying guide The punk explosion was expected to kill Supertramp. Instead, they thrived and enjoyed huge success worldwide – and these are their best albums

Buying guide Despite their ups and downs over the course of 50 years, American rockers Y&T have recorded many albums that've stood the test of time

Buying guide There’s much more to unsung guitar hero and songwriter Robin Trower than his outstanding 1970s power-trio albums

Buying guide Iggy Pop burst onto the stages of Detroit like a mad bag of screaming skin ’n’ bones, and he hasn't let up in the half century since: These are his best albums

Buying guide In a career that's taken him from prog flag carrier to pop superstardom, Peter Gabriel has produced music of depth and originality - and these are his best albums

Buying guide The Velvet Underground reshaped the sound of rock'n'roll with four albums that continue to have an incalculable influence on the musical zeitgeist. The less said about their fifth, the better

Buying guide He's an underachiever and proud of it, man: These are the best from Paul Westerberg, from the Replacements to a delightfully erratic solo career

Buying guide From big hitters like Journey, Boston and Foreigner to the lesser known lights of AOR, these are the 50 albums that truly sparkle

Buying guide A musical jack of all trades and master of many, with Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age and more, Dave Grohl has recorded a truly glittering catalogue

Buying guide Mocked by most of the UK press, Bradford band New Model Army have remained as steadfastly uncompromising as they have unfashionable