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Forget what critics and sales stats might tell you, Flick Of The Switch is the finest AC/DC album since Back In Black
Flick Of The Switch is AC/DC's most under-rated album. The End
Judas Priest and Elegant Weapons guitarist Richie Faulkner made us a playlist
Iron Maiden, Jimi Hendrix and Pantera are just some of the artists that make Richie tick
“He tore the whole thing to shreds and was very unkind”: Jethro Tull’s War Child and 1974
Their seventh studio album was the result of a failed attempt to make a movie – but the band leader believes many more significant things happened in the world of music that year
Biff Byford reveals why he thinks Metallica have never covered a Saxon song
Metallica have never covered Saxon on record – could an old beef be the reason why?
How abandoned songs, a broken foot and footballer-size egos destroyed a Yes album
The classic line-up fell apart after disastrous attempts to make the follow-up to Tormato in Paris, before a new line-up released Drama in 1980
Inside Kings Of Chaos, rock’s billion dollar supergroup
Featuring members of Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, Alter Bridge and more, Kings Of Chaos were rock’s most high-profile covers band
“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
