First recorded by the Scorpions 50 years ago, In Search Of The Peace Of Mind has been re-recorded for MSG's new album Immortal. Here, Michael Schenker tells the story of the song he calls "the theme for my life"
With Glastonbury having been cancelled for a second consecutive year, we ask industry insiders what festival season 2021 is really looking like – and if the festivals we love can survive another fallow year
Here's that version of Paradise Lost doing Bronski Beat you never knew you needed – plus a goldmine of other unsuspecting pop hits given the goth treatment
While Chrissie Hynde has been involved in other projects, she’s always had The Pretenders. And with 2020’s Hate For Sale they returned to guitar-based rock’n’roll and came back with a bang
Cooped up inside success, Peter Gabriel walked out of the Genesis machinery and into a brand new, mumble-free dawn
Picking up where their heroes The Doors left off, roots-punk firebrands X documented California’s dark underbelly in the late 70s
With Mountain, West Bruce & Laing and solo, Leslie West – the big guitarist with the big voice and big sound – proved he was a class act
Budgie’s Burke Shelley praises Led Zeppelin’s seminal first album, the first listen of which was “an experience that can never be beaten”
Rock is often about more than just the music: it's about The Big Idea, and ambition manifesting itself as The Concept Album
Romantic interlude: King Crimson founder Robert Fripp reveals the secrets of his long marriage to actress and musician Toyah Willcox
In a world where fake news runs rampant, rock'n'roll is not immune to the lure of the conspiracy theory. These are 10 of the most ludicrous
Eddie and Alex Van Halen, Dave Lee Roth, Michael Anthony and others tell the story of the early days of the band that conquered the world
Birth, death, love and loss… Live's post-grunge hit I Alone has soundtracked them all. Frontman Ed Kowalczyk remembers the song that was born in a barn
Eight wild-eyed rock horses, under starters orders, champing at the bit and ready to race
We chart the development of Chicago, from jazz-flecked prog rockers to multi-million selling hitmakers
The only man to have been with Judas Priest since the very beginning looks back over his band’s epic career…
No one wanted a pandemic to come along and tip 2020 on its head, but without the lockdown the new Struts album Strange Days would not exist
60s folk gave way to 70s troubadours and a generation of singer-songwriters who could rock as well as strum. Here's 10 of the best singer-songwriter albums, from Neil Young to Bruce Springsteen and beyond
Billy Idol writer/guitarist/producer Steve Stevens on the prog classic that “freaked the shit outta me”, King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King
