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“I never thought 20,000 humans would be playing air drums!” Why Whitfield Crane loves Rush
The American singer didn’t even know what a concept album was when 2112 knocked him off his feet, launching a lifelong love affair with the Canadian trio
How Heart made their rock'n'roll dreams come true and the price they paid
How "Little Led Zeppelin" became global stars and carved out a place for women in rock along the way
Every Paradise Lost album ranked from worst to best
From debut album Lost Paradise to the brand-new Ascension, we revisit and re-order the back-catalogue of one of metal’s most despondent bands
Why Peter Gabriel was the ideal inspiration for fictional prog icon Brian Pern
Simon Day and Rhys Thomas, creators of the TV mockumentaries, identify the Gabriel song that got them started and the one time the ex-Genesis singer refused them – but won’t name the band they wouldn’t allow to take part
Wild and weird weekends with Aerosmith's Toxic Twins
Dinner with Jimmy Page, late-night chaos in hotel rooms and secret gigs: Crazed Aerosmith encounters across the decades
Greta Valenti picks the soundtrack of her life
Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse singer Greta Valenti chooses her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and admits to having multiple guilty pleasures
The Boston albums you need to hear - and one to avoid
Proof that there's much more to Boston and the man who almost single-handedly created their sound than More Than A Feeling
How Into The Void is bringing heavy metal’s human stories to the mainstream
We talk to Jason Eisener and Evan Husney – co-creators of new eight-episode series Into The Void: Life, Death & Heavy Metal – about bringing some of metal’s darkest days to TV screens
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 22, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Black Stone Cherry, Karnivool, Royal Republic and more
Rodney Crowell on country royalty, loving Southern rock again and new album Airline Highway
Roots-rock star Rodney Crowell is back with a guest-packed new album
“They go for the heart as well as the head”: Marillion’s 20 best songs (they can’t believe No.7)
Does the only album with four entries suggest there’s a definitive record from the neo-prog giants? Does the split between the Fish and Steve Hogarth eras reveal a preferred vocalist?
The wild story of Family, the British hellraisers that John Lennon loved and Middle America hated
Prog? Rock? Blues? Family were a square peg in the round hole of early 70s rock
The stellar rise and chaotic fall of Uriah Heep, the 70s rock giants who tore themselves apart
Uriah Heep could have been been as big as Sabbath or Zeppelin if it wasn’t for drink, drugs and egos
The best rock debut album from every year of the 1970s
The debut albums that shaped the 70s
Trevor Rabin recalls being trapped in hell with Yes as they made Big Generator
The guitarist, keyboardist and unwilling producer saw the band’s internal relationships buckling under intense external pressure to make an album as successful as 91025
The satirical 70s shock rock anthem that gave Kiss and Alice Cooper a run for their money
Frightwigs, platform boots, fake schlongs and a 70s classic that skewered slumming rich kids
With better timing, things might have turned out completely differently for Harem Scarem
Harem Scarem have never achieved the major success their music deserves, but they’re still banging on the door
