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Mahavishnu Orchestra explore new musical worlds on The Inner Mounting Flame
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Mahavishnu Orchestra's The Inner Mounting Flame was the first jazz-rock album that found favour among significant numbers of rock aficionados

Status Quo's classic Live! gets a deluxe, multi-disc makeover
By Johnny Sharp published
Status Quo's classic live 1976 double repackaged in an eight-CD set with three full show recordings

Dire Straits' 30-million-selling Brothers In Arms marks its 40th birthday with energised extras
By Mark Beaumont published
Mark Knopfler’s crowning achievement: mildly dated, largely evocative, expanded with live shows

The Move's Looking On signposts better things further down the road
By Classic Rock Magazine published
What happened to Jeff Lynne in between the Idle Race and the Electric Light Orchestra

"His Midas touch is confirmed": Bernie Marsden covers the greats on posthumously released album
By Neil Jeffries published
Classy covers from late guitarist Bernie Marsden on Icons, the fourth album in a series of five

Mixed results as Roger Glover gets his mates in on The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper's Feast
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover's endearing all-star 1974 period piece revisited

Steven Wilson delivers a masterclass in interstellar prog at his first solo show in six years
By Dave Everley published
Steven Wilson kicked off his first solo tour in six years in Stockholm last night. We were there

Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII shines new light on a counterculture classic
By Julian Marszalek published
Once the preserve of late-night viewings, Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii now comes striding into the daylight

Twisted Sister start their own party on You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Hated by their US record company, Twisted Sister's You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll was a mission statement and a launchpad

Stereophonics fail to strike a chord quite like the early days on thirteenth studio album
By Damian Jones published
Some notable numbers on a record that leaves you feeling short-changed

H.E.A.T tighten their grip on the modern melodic rock crown on Welcome To The Future
By Dave Everley published
Swedish kings H.E.A.T brilliantly buck fashions on seventh studio album Welcome To The Future

Billy Idol reflects on the good, the bad and the ugly sides of his life on Dream Into It
By Emma Johnston published
The UK punk who conquered the US looks back on his life and the scene that made him on ninth solo album

"It sounds like Dream Theater doing a pastiche of Bon Jovi songs": Did Extreme over-egg the funk-rock pudding on III Sides To Every Story?
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Extreme's third album, the three-part III Sides To Every Story, was the sound of a band over-reaching themselves

After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever
By Johnny Sharp published
Swedish purveyors of satanic arena rock Ghost camp it up on sixth album Skeletá

In the age of dystopian catastrophe Hawkwind are still looking to space
By David Stubbs published
Hawkwind's 37th album There’s No Space For Us finds the space travellin' veterans in cosmic shipshape form

The big hits are nowhere to be heard as Neil Young digs deep on the unusually atmospheric Coastal
By Fraser Lewry published
Neil Young's millionth live album just happens to be a good one

Eric Clapton fails to wake up the neighbours on the cathartic but glum Pilgrim
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Stick a pin in Eric Clapton’s late-period work and you’re liable to hit a stinker, but for sheer lack of invention, Pilgrim is routinely held up as his lowest ebb
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