Latest Classic Rock News
King Diamond given lifelong honorary award by Danish Arts Foundation
Award will see King Diamond paid up to £22,000 ($26,000) every year to continue creating "art of the highest quality"
“Learned from the greatest". Watch Ozzy Osbourne's toddler grandson bite the head off a toy bat
Cuteness overload as Kelly Osbourne's two-year-old son pays unique Halloween tribute to the late Ozzy
Asia announce a low-key UK warm-up charity show ahead of next year's Japanese tour
Asia will play a one-off show at The Corn Exchange, Ross-On-Wye, in January to raise money for Mike Peters' Love Hope Strength Foundation
Scott Sorry, former bassist with The Wildhearts, dead at 47
Singer-songwriter Scott Sorry also played with Brides Of Destruction and Sorry and the Sinatras
Marillion announce live at Pompeii show for July 2026
UK prog rockers Marillion. will play the world-famous Pompeii amphitheatre on July 25
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are definitely speaking again
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham appear on podcast to discuss their debut album and the influence of Led Zeppelin
Brass bat attached to the birthplace of heavy metal in unauthorised Ozzy-themed guerrilla protest
It's all kicking off in Birmingham
Latest Classic Rock Features
The bassist who survived Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and believing he’d murdered his bandmate on stage
Veteran admits he sailed close to the wind as he taught prog giants to drink – but he learned how much it means to play live with a band
How Sebastian Bach went from playing to Jon Bon Jovi’s parents to singing a classic hair metal anthem
The story of Skid Row’s classic hair metal anthem Youth Gone Wild
How Status Quo turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history
Status Quo beefed up John Fogerty’s ‘piddly’ original and struck rock’n’roll gold
Carmine Appice on getting high with Hendrix, falling out with Ozzy and the late guitar hero he spoke to just before he died
Drum legend Carmine Appice has been in the business for 60 years – and he’s crossed paths with everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Dave Grohl
That time Ozzy mooned the audience because he didn't think they were rocking hard enough
How Black Sabbath's induction at the 2005 UK Music Hall of Fame was overshadowed by Ozzy Osbourne's buttocks
Terry Reid: The last interview
Touring with Marvin Gaye when he was 16, being pals with Aretha Franklin, turning down Led Zeppelin, making wonderful solo albums… Late British singer/guitarist Terry Reid had quite the life
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
The latest upmarket makeover of The Who's Who Are You is interesting and exhaustive
The Who’s last blast with Keith Moon
British goth rockers Creeper outdo themselves on fangtastic fourth album
British goth rockers Creeper outdo themselves on fangtastic fourth album
Jeremy Allen White shines in the Boss’s breakdown biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
The review of the film of the book about the making of Bruce Springsteen's bleak masterpiece, Nebraska
Review: Ace Frehley annoys Gene and Paul by releasing the most successful of the Kiss solos
Kiss famously released four solo albums on the same day. Just as famously, only one of them was truly worthy of the Kiss name - Ace Frehley's
Review: Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (50th Anniversary Edition)
Peak 70s Elton John, a songwriting triumph
"Love Chant is a wonderful and surprisingly vital return to the fray": The Lemonheads' first album of original songs in 20 years is up there with their best
The Lemonheads' eleventh album is fun, frantic, and full of classic hooks and self-deprecating refrains
