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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 14, 2025
Eight new songs you need to hear right now from Jack Black, Halestorm, 38 Special and more
Did David Bowie really have a hand in NINE classic albums in a three year period? Yes, he did.
After two failed solo albums, in the period between 1971 and 1974, David Bowie worked on nine of rock's greatest albums. WTF?
"Y’know what I'm proud of? That they're all alive": Machine guns, snakes and missing millions – Alan Niven, the first manager of Guns N' Roses, looks back
When Guns N' Roses released Appetite For Destruction they were managed by Alan Niven. This is how he dealt with The Most Dangerous Band In The World
The epic story behind Queen’s triumphant comeback with Adam Lambert
No one expected Queen to return in 2011 – not least Queen themselves
“The album sounds incredible. A masterpiece, even though I say so myself!”: Black Sabbath are over – this is what the four members are doing next
Black Sabbath may be over, but are Ozzy and co actually hanging up their boots?
Why Izzy Stradlin was the rock'n'roll heart of Guns N' Roses
Classic Rock presents the third in an exclusive series of excerpts from former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven’s forthcoming book Sound N’ Fury
The story of The Doors’ Waiting For The Sun, the album that set Jim Morrison on the path to destruction
Three albums in and Jim Morrison was heading down a dark path
The Uriah Heep albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
Five decades of rockin': a handy guide to the best albums in the world of the legendary Uriah Heep
PFM on brushes with royalty, spaghetti with Aerosmith, and how to annoy America
Premiata Forneria Marconi, aka PFM, remain one of the great trailblazers of European prog rock
“Robert Fripp said he wanted to revolutionise rock’n’roll with us. I wasn’t sure, given what I’d just heard. But they were about to throw us out the squat”: The League Of Gentlemen led to Beat-era King Crimson
The band lasted only seven months, and felt like a bad movie for some of those involved – but the musical experiment inspired Fripp to reform King Crimson for their 80s brilliance
30 rock and metal songs that defined the 1980s
From AC/DC and Iron Maiden to Guns N’ Roses and Faith No More, this is the soundtrack to a decade
"He said, ‘If you play it backwards, Satan will haunt you!"
Volbeat's Michael Poulsen talks us through his journey to metal stardom
The cult of Keith Richards: guitar hero, blues scholar, rebel, survivor, self-parody, genius
How Keith Richards influenced several generations of rock’n’rollers – for better or worse
A personal insight into the chaotic, beautiful mind of Ozzy Osbourne
20 years of audiences with his royal highness, the Prince of Darkness
“He said Going For The One was about a horse race”: Steve Hogarth on his hero Jon Anderson
The Marillion man was so moved by the experience of hearing Yes for the first time that he wrote a song about it
The Pink Floyd classic that Roger Waters was worried David Gilmour had stolen from someone else
The story behind one of Pink Floyd’s most iconic songs
"David Bowie saw something in Trent Reznor." What it was really like on Nine Inch Nails' infamous Self Destruct tour in the 90s
Panic attacks, substance abuse, wrecked hotel rooms and backstage visits by David Bowie and Lou Reed: photographer Jonathan Ranch had a front seat to it all when he followed NIN on tour
