From using a guitar to simulate motorbikes on Bat Out Of Hell, and the sound of strangled chickens on A Wizard, A True Star, we revisit the case for Todd Rundgren’s guitar genius
Jimi Hendrix’s debut album, Are You Experienced, was pieced together in London in between dazzling live gigs that left the competition reeling. But the end results are still a revelation
Jeff Beck wrote the blueprint, from psych-rock rave-ups with The Yardbirds to pioneering heavy rock and masterful jazz fusion
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins on Permanent Waves, the Rush album that streamlined their songs and gave them their first radio hit
Whitesnake’s album 1987 sold millions and turned David Coverdale into a rock legend. It also made David’s future wife Tawny Kitaen a star
Shedding band members but swaggering on, The Treatment are betting on their fortunes taking an upturn with fifth album Waiting For Good Luck
Illinois Anglophiles Cheap Trick are deep into their fifth decade of existence, and they're enjoying a late-career surge of creativity
Glam-rock icon Suzi Quatro picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the hit song she turned down... just like Debbie Harry
The story of the unlikely rise of German metal, as told by members of Scorpions, Accept, and Doro Pesch
Gary Kemp on sharing a stage with Pink Floyd members, Spandau Ballet’s secret prog past and the chances of brand new Saucerful Of Secrets songs
This week's freshly carved additions to our weekly Mount Rushmore of rock
10 hair metal bands who deserved to become megastars but ultimately fell short
The inside story of The Alan Parsons Project's second album, 1977's I Robot
It took years for mainstream media to catch on to the Manson story. But three young women wouldn't let it go – even if they had to endure threats and ridicule to get it out there
While the return of American band Touch will be a delight for AOR fans, it’s also likely to see the return of people re-telling a 40-year-old story that the band wish would just fly away
The Dust Coda all like AC/DC, they aren't always on 11, they spent lockdown getting a record deal, and they’ve played some really unusual gigs
Former W.A.S.P guitarist Chris Holmes has a new film out. He thinks it's the only W.A.S.P. movie you'll ever see
If gunslingers were musicians they'd play Southern rock, and these are 10 Southern rock albums you need in your arsenal
