Classic Rock Features

Known for a Marmite voice, personal songwriting and a powerful sense of drama, his influence runs deeper than most people realise

The story of the song that accompanied Walter White's demise

Canada's prog rock heroes have amassed an immense discography over a 50-year career... and now they're hitting the road again

Praise be for the persuasive powers of the music exec who brought Corgan round to his way of thinking

Glenn Hughes has spent more than 50 years in rock - and he's ready to talk about it all

They hadn’t released an album in five years before turning things round with a heavily conceptual double release – and their struggles became part of their science-fiction saga

The rock'n'roll icon turned mentor for the trio the 90s and insisted they record a song together

They eschewed prog cliches, inspired all of your favourite rock bands and made songs that still sound ground-breaking – for 50 years, Rush have been badass

Pattern-Seeking Animals keyboardist praises Banks’ ear, taste and understatement, which he argues is essential to everything Genesis achieved

They were The Beatles – or so a million record buyers thought in 1977

Three and a half decades ago, Eddie Vedder and his new bandmates got in a practice room to see what would happen and the rest is history

From an unfinished solo album to drinking with André The Giant, these are the most surprising things we read in Ozzy’s posthumous book

Why you should expect the expected and the unexpected at Todd Rundgren's upcoming shows

In 2012 Geddy Lee discussed their 20th studio title – their only end-to-end concept record – from the aspect of a band who’d come to terms with their youthful years and transformed into a pop-culture phenomenon

From the late 60s through to the late 80s, some of the greatest and most influential albums ever made were doubles

Written by Russ Ballard, it was a surprise solo hit for the Space Ace – and it's still paying off

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from A Thousand Horses, Mirador, The Sheepdogs and more

Best known for his12 years with Steve Hackett, the US-born Swede explores his own life and times at last. And is that a Pink Floyd reference as sings about being frontman and sideman in someone else’s project?

Ron Mael (the operatic one) and Russell Mael (the staring one) never discussed being different; but as LA brothers inspired by British prog and glam, they always were. They only rule they made was: “Shake up the universe”