Classic Rock Features

The Rolling Stones’ secret weapon throughout their golden period looks back on his time with the band

As Beth Hart gears up for her UK tour, she divulges 10 of the hundreds of records that helped her along the way

Killing Joke vocalist Jaz Coleman joins us to talk classical music, the survival of mankind and why he's banned from politics

Forget The Dirt, Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman: music biopics used to be badly researched, badly scripted, badly acted and badly received

As The Mission gear up for The United European Party Tour, frontman and goth architect Wayne Hussey looks back over a long career in goth

Few musicians called a ‘legend’ really deserve the accolade. Even if being chief architect of The Band was all he’d ever done, singer-songwriter Robbie Robertson is one who does

Altamont was meant to be a celebration, but The Rolling Stones' set was the soundtrack to tragedy and chaos

Phil Collins talks about Genesis, Led Zeppelin, George Harrison and the unexplained paint pot on Top Of The Tops

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What's the British prog icons' greatest ever song? Over to you…

Neil Peart's drum solo on Rush's R40 tour took the drummer an entire career to construct. In 2015 he wrote for us and explained the process

A thorough guide to Guns N' Roses' albums, from the godlike to the shambolic

In 2017, Classic Rock spoke to Neil Peart and found out there was much more to the Rush Drumming legend than just paradiddles, polyrhythms and labyrinthine lyrics

We asked some of rock's brightest stars to tell us about their favourite Rolling Stones tracks

From Metallica's S&M's origins in ’99 to its triumphant rebirth, we go inside the story of the metal titans’ most ambitious project

Remember the 80s? Amazingly, touring partners Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx and Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott do – and Classic Rock got them to compare notes

It's been a long time since Robert Plant fronted the biggest band in the world, and now, at 71, he’s enjoying the fourth decade of a successful solo career

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

Slayer had begun to attract the wrong kind of reputation in the UK in the late 80s. So, when they came back for their first full UK tour, they made sure that we’d never, ever forget it