Pre-Appetite For Destruction, Axl Rose was just another Sunset Strip glam band singer hoping for a break. But boy could he sing, as this rare footage from 1986 shows
Lemmy flogging milk? Iron Maiden pushing road safety? Dokken hawking anti-virus software?! Here are 10 times rock stars have appeared in crazy TV ads
Like Foreigner? Def Leppard? Mutt Lange? Then there's every chance you'll love New York rockers Tempt
Super producer William Orbit will be joining Hawkwind onstage at the Royal Albert Hall this evening as they celebrate half a century of space rituals and odysseys
Bryan Adams looks back on the making of Reckless – the album that turned him into a superstar
Forget the Great American Songbook series – these are the albums that prove Rod Stewart is one of rock’s greatest voices
Faith No More never were the easiest band to interview
9/11 brought turmoil just as the benign dictator had decided to completely rewrite the record that would become Snow - but there was even more turmoil to follow
Iron Maiden's legendary frontman has had a storied music career away from his most famous gig. Here's a guide to his solo discography
Metallica frontman James Hetfield is no stranger to cameos in film and TV, but his appearance on American Dad might be the weirdest he's done
Recorded in an old bomb shelter, Candlemass's Solitude was less about deteriorating mental health than it was an ode to killer hangovers, but nonetheless set the tone for the epic doom to come
Stone Sour, Probot and A Perfect Circle may not be their members’ most famous projects, but that didn’t stop them from being brilliant
"It abruptly emerged, halted mid-sky, then darted from zero to breakneck speed. A phenomenon far beyond even today's aviation capabilities" - Lemmy
Given wings by producer Kevin Elson when they recorded it a second time, Rock The Night proved that there was more gold in the band’s catalogue than just The Final Countdown
From New York folk through 60s psych, soul, punk, riot grrrl and beyond: a history of the women who've have had an insurrectionary impact on rock’n’roll
With its twisted arrangements and otherworldly vocals, Family’s mind-boggling 1968 debut set a benchmark in underground music
On the night of September 27, 1986, a tragic accident took the life of much-loved Metallica bassist Cliff Burton
Canadian rocker Danko Jones mounts a passionate defence of AC/DC’s least-loved album, Fly On The Wall
Eddie Van Halen famously popularised finger tapping, but Steve Hackett was doing it as long ago as 1971
