Classic Rock Features

We asked you to vote for the greatest live album of all time, and 27,561 of you did. These are the results: the 50 greatest live albums ever

There’s more to Bruce Dickinson than just a voice like an air-raid siren, as these 10 Iron Maiden classics prove

Brothers TJ and John Osborne wouldn’t be who they are without the original country greats, grunge, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Nashville’s music community, among many others

We investigate the career highlights of Jaco Pastorius, bass player extraordinaire

Eight perfectly tasty ingredients for a delicious rock'n'roll winter stew

Van Halen albums have it all: One of the most innovative guitarists of all time, your choice of rock star frontmen, and some great tunes. Here we pick the best of their back catalogue

A look back at the short but stellar career of rock's first supergroup, Cream

Updated From Powerage to Power Up, from Back in Black to Black Ice, from Rock Or Bust to... you get the idea. These are AC/DC's albums ranked, from worst to best

Keyboard legend Rick Wakeman looks back on 10 classic songs that made the 70s great

With themes of war, madness and nuclear holocaust, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid remains the ultimate difficult second album. Fifty years on, we remember how it razed the rock’n’roll landscape

Marilyn Manson was a new type of metal hero: an articulate spokesman, fearless in expressing himself. But as the discourse in music changes, are #MeToo and ‘cancel culture’ too close to home?

Power pop is the cheeky little cousin of pop-rock. It’s one of rock’s most accessible genres, and it’s not so easy to define, but these are its best albums

Your youth should be a time of rebellion. The man-made part of religion is disgusting. Don’t be afraid of a challenge. Star quality can’t be acquired. These are among the things that shape Skin's world view

Eight rock'n'roll wrestlers, making their way towards the ring for a right rock royal rumble

The prog metal icons have influenced some of music’s greatest artists. And Justin Bieber

It’s a dirty job, but we’ve done it and ranked Slayer’s untouchable back catalogue in order of greatness

This goth metal cover of Metallica’s thrash classic would make Peter Steele proud

For Stranglers founder Jean-Jacques Burnel, The Doors' L.A. Woman became “the soundtrack to an important time in my life” after just one acid-fuelled listen

For Low Cut Connie mainman Adam Weiner, music is not something he just wants to do, he says, it’s his religious calling. And what he delivers suggests that maybe the devil doesn’t have all the best tunes after all