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How The Damned took four days and lots of cider to kickstart a revolution
The Sex Pistols may have got all the headlines and The Clash the critical acclaim, but The Damned trumped them all
The Sex Pistols may have got all the headlines and The Clash the critical acclaim, but The Damned trumped them all
Nearly four decades since All About Eve’s breakthrough, Julianne Regan and Tim Bricheno are back together. Here they pick the songs that define their decades in music…
With Ice Queen, Within Temptation helped to crystallise the scene we know today as symphonic metal
A No.3 single in 1985, the song topped the charts in 2022 after appearing in Stranger Things – and the planet seemed to go Kate crazy
As pack leaders of the post-millennial alt.blues scene – until fame turned their hair grey – The Black Keys have rediscovered their mojo on twelfth album Ohio Players
Including Terrorvision, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Those Damn Crows and more - vote for your favourite
Captain Beefheart was an eccentric but hugely influential artist tortured by his failure to break into the mainstream. These are his best albums
The LA rockers' jaunt with Cat Butt tooks in brawls, hard drugs, gangland shootings, machete attacks and more.
Former Yes keyboard maestro Rick Wakeman has played with rock’s great and good over the years – and he’s got the memories to prove it
Judas Priest released their controversial double album Nostradamus on June 16, 2008
The story of Voivod’s ground-breaking 1988 album Dimension Hatröss, the album that helped shaped modern prog metal
Country, rock’n’roll, a whole lot of attitude – Jason And The Scorchers were destined to be huge, but they were their own worst enemies
Barclays will no longer be sponsoring Download, Isle Of Wight or Latitude festivals following escalating protests and cancellations by musicians and comedians. Louder looks at how this discourse has dominated summer 2024 in the UK
In 2012, Steve Harris launched British Lion - the solo project that took 20 years to get off the ground
Eddie Vedder & co. have done a truckload of cover versions across their career - here's ten of the best
The story of guitar icon’s Steve Vai’s brief but eventful union with David Coverdale and Whitesnake for the Slip Of The Tongue album
In 2011, Blondie’s Debbie Harry sat down with Classic Rock to look back over her stellar career
When Tubthumping punks Chumbawamba took exception to Hetfield’s comments on Guantanamo Bay, they responded with the most chilled-out takedown ever
He played clubs and guzzled beer at 14; fronted Skid Row and got hit records, star friends, a taste for coke and the sack; then things got really interesting
With a riff claimed by both of the band’s guitarists and lyrics inspired by a summer romance, Blowin' Free became Wishbone Ash’s signature song and a rock classic