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Devon Allman picks the soundtrack of his life
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Devon Allman picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance
How Public Enemy and Anthrax united to create a whole new genre
How thrash kingpins Anthrax and hip hop titans Public Enemy created the greatest rap-metal song of all
Hair, sweat, blood and white denim that hadn't been washed in weeks. The 00s' first rock classic
The Twin Towers fell, and then came a song that made us remember life wasn't all doom and gloom
“A big chapter was coming to an end. I couldn’t tell anyone”: Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tour
The final road trip with Peter Gabriel featured an over-ambitious stage set, performing a double-album no one had yet heard, and dealing with dangerous and deadly mishaps – all while suspecting their singer was going to quit and the band might end
The story of the debauched tour that sent Joe Cocker over the edge
The Beatles queued up to give Joe Cocker their songs, but drink, drugs and wild times on the infamous Mad Dogs & Englishmen touring circus almost finished him off
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
