Classic Rock Features

Blues giant Kenny Wayne Shepherd picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and recalls the life-changing show he went to as a three-year-old

Def Leppard are joined by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on new album Drastic Symphonies. We went to Abbey Road Studios to watch it come together

Aerosmith might be coming to the end of the road, but no one has ever done the dirty job of rock'n'roll better, and their best albums are swaggering, charismatic proof

What do Spoonman, Arnold Layne, and an unnamed security guard at Studio 54 have in common? They all inspired classic songs

Eight meaty sonic morsels including Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, The Dirty Nil, 3Teeth and several other glorious disciples of rock

The band Corey Taylor formed before joining Slipknot have carved out a hell of a career in their own right. Here's their discography ranked

Heart singer Ann Wilson recalls the making of a multi-platinum, MTV-friendly monster

Once upon a time, a garage band from Phoenix moved to LA and became Alice Cooper, with a little help from Frank Zappa, a dark alter ego and... West Side Story

Robert Plant is of an age when most rock stars have run out of steam or are repeating themselves, but he's still moving forward - and these are his best albums since Led Zeppelin

Thrash metal's DNA has rarely undergone any drastic alterations, but its evolution over the years can still be charted via these five classics

Radiohead haven't always been the biggest alternative band of a generation: back in 1992 they were still finding their feet, reeling from the abject failure of a little song called Creep

On August 27, 1990, Stevie Ray Vaughan played the gig of his life. Just hours later he was killed when his helicopter crashed in thick fog. This is the inside story of that tragic day

"We’re a band from the South and we play music that comes from the South" - Hillbilly Vegas frontman Steve Harris

Nightwish singer Floor Jansen picks her songs and albums of lasting significance, and reveals the amazing singer whose music is "absolutely cheese-bombs"

Paul Butterfield inspired Dylan to plug in, was a virtuoso singer and mouth harp player, and took black blues to white America. But beneath the surface, trouble was brewing

As he prepared to bring a live version of his classic solo album to the stage 40 years later, Rick Wakeman looked back on the epic Journey To The Centre Of Earth

Lars Ulrich and Rob Trujillo take us behind the scenes of Metallica's 72 Seasons - a dramatic record even by their standards

A man on the internet has made a thing, part 6593

They're one of the biggest and greatest metal bands of all time, but every member to have come through Maiden's ranks has some prior history

British glam rockers Silverhead provided the musical template for Hanoi Rocks, Mötley Crüe and Poison, and in frontman Michael Des Barres they gave Hollywood a star