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Ozzy Osbourne launches range of beauty products
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Roger Waters shares new live clip of Is This The Life We Really Want?
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Oh Lord, yeah: Black Sabbath have teamed up with the Big Issue, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer for the Back To The Beginning official programme
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Foo Fighters release 80-second cover song recorded across three decades
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Peter Hammill announces live dates for England and Scotland in September and October, his first UK solo shows for seven years
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Latest Classic Rock News

Ozzy Osbourne launches range of beauty products
By Fraser Lewry published
The Ozzy Osbourne x Jolie Beauty drop will land next week

Roger Waters shares new live clip of Is This The Life We Really Want?
By Jerry Ewing published
Roger Waters concert film This Is Not A Drill - Live From Prague The Movie opens in cinemas worldwide in July. The soundtrack will be released in August

Oh Lord, yeah: Black Sabbath have teamed up with the Big Issue, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer for the Back To The Beginning official programme
By Scott Rowley last updated
The official programme Back To The Beginning is a unique collaboration between Black Sabbath, the Big Issue, and Metal Hammer and Classic Rock

Foo Fighters release 80-second cover song recorded across three decades
By Matt Mills published
Listen to the post-grunge icons’ take on I Don’t Wanna Hear It by hardcore legends Minor Threat

Peter Hammill announces live dates for England and Scotland in September and October, his first UK solo shows for seven years
By Jerry Ewing published
Van der Graaf Generator frontman Peter Hammill will play shows in Edinburgh, Manchester and London

Saxon cancel 10 summer shows as Biff Byford undergoes emergency surgery
By Fraser Lewry published
Saxon aim to be back on the road in late August

There's a band with more than half a million monthly listeners on Spotify and they probably don't exist
By Fraser Lewry published
Meet The Velvet Sundown, the world's new favourite AI-generated rock stars
Latest Classic Rock Features

The ‘popularity’ of an AI-generated rock band was inevitable – and it highlights a depressing fact about success in the music streaming age
By Matt Mills published
A seemingly non-existent band have more than half a million Spotify ‘listeners’, but the numbers they’re piling up are just as shallow and meaningless as the computer-generated music they spit out

The 40 best Black Sabbath songs ever
By Paul Brannigan published
From genre-defining early cuts to underrated gems, these are the Black Sabbath songs you need in your life

The meaning behind The Stranglers' controversial classic Peaches
By James McNair published
Driven by a gritty bass riff, The Stranglers' Top 10 hit Peaches is nearly 50 years old, but it's still a must-play by today’s version of the band

The Beatles' albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
By Henry Yates published
The Beatles have been gone for more than half a century, but their shadow still looms large over rock music and rock musicians - and these are their best albums

Tobias Forge on spirituality, isolation and the positive joys of fandom
By Johnny Sharp published
Tobias Forge, aka Papa V Perpetua, talks dark matters and working towards a "newer, better, bigger" Ghost

How Andy Summers and Robert Fripp collaborated with remarkable ease in the 80s
By Rob Hughes published
When the Police and King Crimson men got together, the result was two well-received albums and a stack of forgotten material – finally released – that they can’t believe wasn’t used in the 80s
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Motörhead ring the changes on Another Perfect Day, initial dismay now a distant memory
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Joined by Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson, Motörhead's Another Perfect Day has increased in stature over the years – just don't mention the shorts

Legendary 'Godfather of Grunge' Neil Young closes out Saturday night at Glastonbury
By Stephen Hill published
"A fantastic celebration of a legendary artist"

What is it about Zach Bryan that has convinced the youth of Britain to lose their cynical minds?
By Scott Rowley published
Zach Bryan at Hyde Park: 20-somethings sing along with his songs about death, trauma and loss, like they are party anthems

Iron Maiden return to London’s East End for a gloriously flamboyant 50th birthday party
By Matt Mills published
Iron Maiden come back to their birthplace and – armed with a new drummer, a stacked setlist and some extravagant visuals – show 75,000 people just how much they’ve grown

"You worry for anyone that has to follow them." Biffy Clyro's magnificent Glastonbury set serves notice that they're more than ready to headline Britain's biggest and most beloved festival when the call comes
By Merlin Alderslade published
Biffy Clyro kickstart the weekend on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage blending the anthemic with the angular, the emotional and the straight-up eccentric

Bruce Springsteen's staggering The Lost Albums asks why lesser records were released instead
By Pat Carty published
The Boss’s magnificent missing chapters, now finally published