Classic Rock Features

Eight outstanding candidates for a controversy-free rock'n'roll election

Rock pillaged folk right through the 60s. But when that decade ended, the folkies grabbed it right back. Here are the 10 best folk rock albums

George Thorogood’s ode to brawlin’ and heart breakin’ Bad To The Bone was inspired by The Rolling Stones and almost recorded by Bo Diddley. Surprisingly, it was never a big hit

Most recently seen onstage at the Peter Green tribute show earlier this year, here are the eight songs that got British blues legend John Mayall started

Free wrote one of rock's most iconic songs in All Right Now, and their albums showcase British hard rock at its most inspirational

In 1971, Led Zeppelin released their untitled fourth album and changed the face of rock forever. This is the story of the album known variously as Led Zeppelin IV, Runes, Four Symbols or simply Untitled

Inspired by a single line from a gospel song, Paul Simon's classic Bridge Over Troubled Water has been covered by everyone from Elvis Presley to Aretha Franklin

For a time in 1970s Slade were the most popular band in Britain. But then a car crash put the brakes on, America didn’t ‘get’ them, and as glam-rock faded so too did the band’s fortunes

In honour of metal's greatest decade, we've compiled ten landmark tracks from every single year of the 1980s to create the ultimate era-defining playlist

In the wake of Donald Trump's election four years ago, Rage Against The Machine bassist Tim Commerford told us why it was the worst thing to happen in America’s recent history

Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford look back on RATM’s landmark debut album

The cover of Pink Floyd’s debut album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn was very much of its time. Hugh Fielder talks to sleeve photographer Vic Singh about prisms, George Harrison and not getting paid

The Small Faces were at the forefront of British psychedelia in the late 60s with their career-peaking album Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake, and all it took was one trip

Scott’s AC/DC legacy amounts to six years, six studio albums and 57 tracks. Here we rank every one that the great man recorded with the band, from high-voltage classics to obscure B-sides and everlasting anthems

in 1995, Garbage sounded like they came from 2020. In 2020, the rest of the music world is still trying to catch up…

Eight screaming meteors powering their way across the rock'n'roll solar system, destination: Earth

Xmas comes early with this inspired mash-up Metallica’s For The Whom The Bell Tolls and Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You

The world endures lockdown and socially distanced live shows, but life has returned to normal and live shows are back in the small New Zealand town of Oamaru

Only a fool would have put money on a bunch of German industrial-metal perverts becoming one of the biggest bands in America. But this is how Rammstein did it