Latest Reviews on Classic Rock
Mahavishnu Orchestra explore new musical worlds on The Inner Mounting Flame
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
