Jeff Beck: a guide to his best albums
Jeff Beck wrote the blueprint, from psych-rock rave-ups with The Yardbirds to pioneering heavy rock and masterful jazz fusion
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Why I ❤️ Rush’s Permanent Waves, by Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins on Permanent Waves, the Rush album that streamlined their songs and gave them their first radio hit
How David Coverdale, Tawny Kitaen and MTV turned Whitesnake into megastars
Whitesnake’s album 1987 sold millions and turned David Coverdale into a rock legend. It also made David’s future wife Tawny Kitaen a star
Ten years of The Treatment: a tale of liquor, vampires, serial killers and Alice Cooper pranks
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The magnificent late-career rise of Cheap Trick, a band too dumb to quit
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Glam-rock icon Suzi Quatro picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the hit song she turned down... just like Debbie Harry
How Germany took on the world of heavy metal and won
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This week's freshly carved additions to our weekly Mount Rushmore of rock
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The inside story of The Alan Parsons Project's second album, 1977's I Robot
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It took years for mainstream media to catch on to the Manson story. But three young women wouldn't let it go – even if they had to endure threats and ridicule to get it out there
Bees, ballads, Michael Bolton, and the heroically overblown return of Touch
While the return of American band Touch will be a delight for AOR fans, it’s also likely to see the return of people re-telling a 40-year-old story that the band wish would just fly away
The Dust Coda: 6 things you need to know
The Dust Coda all like AC/DC, they aren't always on 11, they spent lockdown getting a record deal, and they’ve played some really unusual gigs
Chris Holmes on Blackie Lawless, why he made a documentary, and *that* interview
Former W.A.S.P guitarist Chris Holmes has a new film out. He thinks it's the only W.A.S.P. movie you'll ever see
10 Southern rock albums you should definitely own
If gunslingers were musicians they'd play Southern rock, and these are 10 Southern rock albums you need in your arsenal
How Pink Floyd reinvented themselves and journeyed towards The Dark Side
After Syd Barrett left, Pink Floyd were on a constant search for a sound – their sound. Eventually, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason would find it
Flames, fetishes and pickled babies: the twisted story of Rammstein‘s Mutter
How Rammstein’s third album, Mutter, took them from cult band to global metal superpower
