Latest Features on Classic Rock
“He was the real Voice Of Rock”: James Dewar was the greatest rock vocalist you’ve never heard of
When James Dewar died in May 2002 aged 59, rock lost one of its greatest and most overlooked singers
Green Day: The A-Z of pop-punk's most important and influential band
Your handy alphabetical guide to Californian punk rock superstars Green Day
CJ Wildheart on his new album, career choices, and his relationship with Ginger
With guitarist/singer CJ Wildheart's career looking uncertain, it might be a chance to swap his guitar for a set of pans
Ronnie Wood interview: The Stones' new album, a new Faces album, bad things and Einstein
Rolling Stone and solo bandleader Ronnie Wood on the Stones' new lease of life and the chances of a tour
Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver legend Scott Weiland on his 10 favourite Scott Weiland songs
10 key songs from Scott Weiland's back catalogue, in the great man's own words
A week in the life of the Metal Queen, Doro Pesch
Doro: Night owl, gym regular, painter, reader, film lover, spiritualist
When Keith Emerson tried to blag a £55,000 synth for free
The keyboard genius’ relationship with engineer Robert Moog may have had a shaky start, but it paid dividends to both men – and countless followers
Greg Dulli looks back on 40 years of laying bare man's desires, duplicity and deviance with The Afghan Whigs
An audience with alternative rock's own Prince of Darkness
“He’d got rid of Lemmy and it was me next”: Civil war left Dave Brock as captain of Hawkwind
He recalls not going to his own band’s gigs, his first acid experience, losing confidence in his playing, annoying druids at Stonehenge, who hit Ginger Baker with a pool cue, and the former member he wished would die (and did)
How The Who overcame internal strife to make their most poignant album
By 1973 The Who were bored and angry – and Pete Townshend knew he had one last chance to hold the band together and unify them in the eyes of their fans
How Led Zeppelin created the impossible-to-copy rhythmic swing of Black Dog
Often presumed to be inspired by Jimmy Page's fascination with the occult, Black Dog's origins were much more earthbound
Meet The Gnomes: Your new favourite Aussie garage rockers
Loved by the Viagra Boys, Melbourne's The Gnomes are ready for whatever hardship rock'n'roll requires
Jailhouse rock: What happened when the Frankie Miller Band played San Quentin Prison
In August 1975, the Frankie Miller Band played a gig at California State Prison as rival gangs edgily eyed each other up
The Move could have been massive, but three things stopped them
The band once boasted the combined creative genius of Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood and scored nine Top 20 hits… so what went wrong?
Frank Beard was the enigma at the heart of ZZ Top
Frank Beard was cool, calm and collected - but ZZ Top’s human metronome had his dark times
That time the Sex Pistols launched their own perfume
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
The story behind Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video, by those who were there
When Nirvana shot a video for Smells Like Teen Spirit in mid-August 1991 they had no idea it would change their lives forever
