"Big Balls made my dad laugh so hard": Wolfgang Van Halen on how he bonded with dad Eddie over Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
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"It was like Guns N' Roses being lectured by anarchists": Therapy?'s Andy Cairns picks the 10 songs that define his career
From Therapy?'s biggest hits to collaborating with Manic Street Preachers' James Dean Bradfield, Andy Cairns picks the most important songs of his career
“It actually changed something culturally." James Hetfield wrote Nothing Else Matters because he missed his girlfriend. It'd make ballads cool again, outrage Metallica elitists and, eventually, help Miley Cyrus mend her broken heart
James Hetfield was shy in letting his Metallica bandmates hear Nothing Else Matters. They loved it: and so have generations since
“Prog still lived deeply inside the four of us, but with Asia we sliced away the fat": How Heat Of The Moment turned Asia into a lean, mean, multi-million selling machine
By the early 80s, in the wake of new wave and disco fever, supergroup Asia coined a pared-down version of the prog-rock sound
The 50 best AC/DC songs ever
From Sydney streets to world domination, AC/DC have never strayed from the path during five decades of unwavering commitment to the cause of righteous rock'n'roll
"We were a bit embarrassed because this was the raging punk scene": How the "slight reggae" of The Police's Roxanne turned a teacher and two prog rock renegades into unlikely superstars
Banned by the BBC, Roxanne put The Police on the road to superstardom when a radio station in Texas embraced Sting's song about love in a red light district
"We came out on stage and beat the living crap out of each other": The day Poison's career imploded at the MTV Awards
In 1991 Poison were ready to consolidate a year of enormous success at the MTV Music Video Awards... but it all went wrong in the most disastrous way
“She's got a fire raging in between her thighs, I got a hose to put it out, try this for size”: a deep dive into terrible heavy metal lyrics about sex
Metal might nail it when it comes to lyrics about death, war, Satan and existential terror...but sex? Um, not so much
"Hearing it was my punk rock revelation, the moment where the skies open and you go, Oh, a lot of that music which I’ve liked up until now isn’t so important anymore": Tom Morello on the album without which Rage Against The Machine would not exist
"I’d bought the cassette and once I put it in the deck I didn’t leave the car until it finished"
“Of any song that I've ever written, it's most blatantly about my time in Nirvana”: the story behind the Foo Fighters song Dave Grohl wrote about his Nirvana bandmates while crashing on Kurt Cobain's couch
"He plays an old guitar, with a coin found by the phone": the story behind Dave Grohl's tender tribute to Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain
"We weren't trying to replace Layne Staley": How Dave Grohl and Elton John helped a reborn Alice In Chains pay tribute to their fallen frontman on Black Gives Way To Blue
Recorded in Dave Grohl's studio, 2009's Black Gives Way To Blue resurrected Alice In Chains and allowed them to pay tribute to Layne Staley - with guest contributions from Elton John
These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Måneskin, Steven Wilson, Michael Des Barres and more
Eight songs to make your head bang, your feet move or your heart soar (delete where appropriate)
"There was a lot of pot-smoking going on at the listen-backs": Gráinne Duffy on the Californian vibes of new album Dirt Woman Blues
Singer and guitarist Gráinne Duffy on AI songwriting, being compared to a blues-rock legend, and why Walter Trout should try giving birth
The most underrated albums by 10 major prog bands
Showing a little love for the overlooked classics by prog giants Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Rush and more
“Leaving aside any bias over Radar Love, it brought their progressive leanings right to the surface”: Golden Earring’s Moontan
Yes, it contains a giant classic rock hit – but the Dutch band’s 1973 album offers a much more eclectic musical experience
"In all honesty I’d forgotten how good we were back then": former Marillion frontman Fish on Kayleigh, the song that changed the band for better and worse
Kayleigh was a composite of singer Fish's ex-girlfriends, the lost lover lending her invented name to a new generation of young girls
“Sales is not a mark of success": 10 rock bands from the '90s who should have been absolutely massive
The biggest-selling alt. rock bands from the '90s weren't necessarily the best alt. rock bands from the '90s
There are certain people you meet and you just know they won’t be around forever. Jim Morrison was one of those people. He could have died 100 times": Alice Cooper on The Doors' Jim Morrison
"He was a risk taker, fearless": Alice Cooper shares his memories of The Doors frontman Jim Morrison
“I used to look at myself all dolled up like some guy in Def Leppard, and think, ‘Who do you think you are?’”: how Gary Moore ditched hard rock and saved his career with Still Got The Blues
The epic story of Gary Moore’s journey from 80s hard rock hero to the man who ushered in the 90s blues revival
