Classic Rock Reviews

Inspired by a tragic modern story, Steven Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase. is often hailed as his masterpiece. But is it?

Judas Priest follow up the lukewarm Turbo and the tepid Ram It Down with the red-hot Painkiller

The Purple Rain movie may have been a polished turd of soapy melodrama, but it – and the brilliant soundtrack – transformed Prince into a towering icon of the video age

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Freddie's solo debut remains flawed but sporadically glorious.

Thanks, but no tanks: history-loving Swedes Sabaton reinvent their stage show for the Legendary tour

Freed from Cold Chisel, Australian national treasure Jimmy Barnes called in the big guns for his attempted US breakthrough

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Freddie's solo debut remains flawed but sporadically glorious.

No filler or flab on one of the most obscenely thrilling moments in all of recorded metal history

While punk rock was big news in 1977, the radio-friendly rock of Foreigner was still perfectly timed

Rock's past and present meet in the middle and make a certain kind of magic in hopes of securing its future

74-75: Night Life / Fighting finds Phil Lynott, Brian Downey, Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson pointing Thin Lizzy in the right direction

The bottom of the Abbey Road barrel approaches

Spock’s Beard: Still proud to be prog on The Archaeoptimist

Mick Taylor exits the Stones and fun times return

Theatre Of Pain: Still painful

Life at the melodic end of the hard rock spectrum was not always kind

Kiss are back, and Classic Rock were there to witness it

What happened when Jake Kiszka and Chris Turpin’s maverick blues project Mirador played London on their first UK tour

Southern rock flagbearers Blackberry Smoke serve up an overstuffed career-spanning compilation