Classic Rock Reviews

An inspiration for Guns N' Roses and a cover featuring a bat-like creature with vicious teeth. It can only be Nazareth's Hair Of The Dog

How do you follow an album that changed the world? For the most part it's rinse then repeat

Rolling Stone Keith Richards' 1988 solo debut gets major expansion job – in real Fender wood!

Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother marked the point where the band found their way out of their post-Barrett malaise

UK rockers of a certain age were introduced to Nantucket Sleighride by political broadcasting on the TV, but there was also an album attached to the song

After Rick Parfitt, what next for the Status Quo man?

In which we discuss communal music youth programs in a social democracy, and what they meant for Europe's album The Final Countdown

In mid-1975, Peter Frampton was a moderately successful solo artist. Within a year, Frampton Comes Alive! had smashed all known sales records...

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' career-spanning double CD compilation, also available on quadruple vinyl

Heavy and progressive, it’s business as usual for Queensrÿche on The Verdict

In which Kiss go Prog and alienate everyone... or not, as our reviewers clearly prove

14th Dream Theater studio album Distance Over Time finds the band veering delightfully off-course

Ex Dio-ites Last In Line find their own style on II

Stranger In Town is an album featuring three of Bob Seger's most celebrated songs, but it's not his most celebrated album. What's going on?

Susan Tedeschi. Derek Trucks. And their Band. Album number four is Signs

Turn-of-the-century reissues from a reinvigorated Megadeth

A debut album from the youthful Free, a band with a couldn’t-care-less attitude honed on the rough-and-ready UK circuit of blues clubs and ballrooms

SAHB crept up on an unsuspecting nation, grabbed it by the balls and won hearts and minds in unison

Paradise Theater: a concept piece based on a fictional rundown venue, and a metaphor for the American dream