Latest Features on Classic Rock
“They couldn’t stop me – it was too close to the show”: Peter Gabriel’s Genesis frontman act
It may have caused conflict, but his insistence on sticking with his artistic vision paid off in countless ways
How AC/DC’s Brian Johnson ended up playing on the same football team as Chuck Norris
This headline sounds a fever dream, but it really happened in 1983
Tarja Turunen reflects on Nightwish, her stroke and returning to metal
Fallouts, tabloids and mended bridges: Tarja Turunen talks us through the lessons she's learned in 30 years of making music
Bust-ups, busking and the last days of The Clash
When punk legends the Clash went out, it was with a whimper not a bang
The two millennial classics that turned Jimmy Eat World into low-key emo royalty
Jimmy Eat World’s Clarity and Bleed American should be in every post-hardcore fan’s record collection
Steve Hillage’s life and times: Gong, shamanism, dance music and Jimi Hendrix
Canterbury scene guitarist and producer explains how “the modern equivalent of shamanism” has run through his life – along with a nugget of advice from Jimi Hendrix
Blaze Bayley on Iron Maiden, depression and what keeps him going
Blaze Bayley is open to working with Iron Maiden again - and has ideas of how he'd love to do it
This is what Lemmy really thought of AC/DC and Bon Scott
One great rock’n’roll icon pays a posthumous tribute to another
How Beavis and Butt-head turned White Zombie into a million-selling band
"It was our most normal song. A song that a normal person might enjoy."
How Boz Burrell saved King Crimson when Robert Fripp had lost hope
If someone hadn’t left a bass behind in the band’s rehearsal room, leading to a change of role for their newly-hired singer, their career might well have ended before 1971’s Islands
The chilling prophecy and unthinkable tragedy that overshadows one of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s greatest albums
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s final album of the 70s is forever linked to the fatal plane crash that followed – but did Ronnie Van Zant predict it?
“We hit play and it sounded like a Yes song. I thought it was the wrong tape!” Jason Becker loves Trevor Rabin
Former David Lee Roth guitarist and soundtrack composer learned a lot from Steve Howe, but prefers Rabin’s melodic and emotional output in and out of Yes
Ronnie Wood’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan and Axl Rose
Living with Hendrix? Jamming with Dylan? Giving Axl relationship advice? Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has done it all
Ashley McBryde has been through the wringer and come out dry
Raised off the leash but in fear in the countryside, downed by alcohol in the city, Ashley McBryde's new album Wild is steeped in the people, places and things that shaped her
The family business that kept Kate Bush in the charts but out of sight
How her vision, clarity and support of siblings and established musicians made her prog’s first pop star – and pop’s first prog star – by the age of 21
How David Bowie, Jane's Addiction, self-loathing, bitterness and jealousy led Gavin Rossdale to write Bush's Everything Zen
The story behind Bush's debut single Everything Zen
How Halestorm tackled sexuality and broken relationships, and emerged with hit single I Miss The Misery
Singer/guitarist Lzzy Hale looks back on the arguments that inspired her band’s biggest song – and the cheaters and fan stories that have strengthened its meaning
