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Quiz: How much do you know about Bruce Springsteen's bleak masterpiece Nebraska?
Nebraska: The album inspired by a film that inspired a book that inspired a film has now inspired a quiz
What happened when Avenged Sevenfold threw caution to the wind and made A Little Piece Of Heaven, an eight-minute necrophiliac symphony
From the lyrics to the saxophones and the Oingo Boingo collaboration, A Little Piece Of Heaven is an unabashedly zany classic
"I'll break both yer arms": Memories of life with Lemmy as a friend and neighbour
Classic Rock writer, former Zigzag editor and Motörhead biographer Kris Needs was also Lemmy’s neighbour in London’s Notting Hill
Foghat haven't played in the UK for over half a century: This weekend, that changes
Foghat will share a bill with Asia feat. John Payne, so we sat down with Payne and Foghat drummer Roger Earl
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 10, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Skindred, Tailgunner, Royal Republic and more
The story of the Black Sabbath song that kicked off heavy metal
Black Sabbath didn’t plan to start a new genre when they debuted in 1970, but their self-titled track is now seen as the place where metal began
In 1971 Greg Lake enraged Keith Emerson, who immediately quit ELP. The result was acclaimed album Tarkus
Carl Palmer recalls a crisis meeting, arguments over time signatures, and playing the whole album top to bottom in the studio – only to discover their engineer had taken a break
When a 70s bubblegum pop quartet surprised fans by releasing a prog album
Pushing their abilities like never before, their 1978 record – the last with their classic line-up – offered a glimpse at the cliff-leaping experimentation that might have followed
The doomed blues hotshot who blew away Bono and toured with Dylan – but ran from fame and died in obscurity
He was signed to the same label as Dylan and Springsteen and brought the blues into the 1990s, but success eluded him
Watch Robert Plant and Jimmy Page perform Stairway To Heaven as a duo
It's the song Robert Plant famously refuses to play. But on one occasion, as Page and Plant promoted their Unledded album in Japan, he relented
Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers’ 80s supergroup should have been huge. The reality was very different
The Firm were one of the great lost supergroups of the 1980s
When one of prog’s biggest bands shut down, it left their guitarist facing a void. This is how he bounced back
Suddenly out of work in 2012, he started to take songwriting seriously and learned to stop feeling intimidated by other musicians
The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn on Lennon, Dylan and the forgotten guitarist who was as good as Hendrix
Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, The Beatles – Roger McGuinn has crossed paths with the them all
The Tom Petty classic that took 100 takes to nail – and ended up being “an albatross” around their necks
When Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers teamed up with a hotshot new producer for a 1979 classic, it nearly broke the band
“It was a fear I had. It was unfounded”: Studio star reveals big regret to a fan who’s now a star himself
The Pink Floyd collaborator thought his career would last two years. But in the past five decades he’s had surprise hits, overreacted to a myth about tape, and made colleagues believe his ideas had been their own
That time Suzi Quatro appeared as Leather Tuscadero on Happy Days and played the classic Devil Gate Drive at Arnold's Diner
For seven episodes of Happy Days, Suzi Quatro sparkled as thief-turned-musician Leather Tuscadero, leader of Leather and the Suedes
The story of the magical Saxon classic inspired by heavy metal music, heavy metal fans and... Toto?
Saxon were cruising the New Wave of British Heavy Metal... and their signature tune celebrated it
