Latest Classic Rock News

Ghost team up with charity to deliver food packages in Los Angeles via branded robot
By Stef Lach published
Ghost's 'Skele-Bot' took to the streets of Inglewood to deliver food to people in need

Original Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams dead at 82
By Prog Magazine published
Mick Abrahams played on Tull’s first album, This Was, before launching Blodwyn Pig

Jon Anderson shares video for Time Has Come as he announces new reissues
By Jerry Ewing published
Jon Anderson to reissue Survival & Other Stories and Earth Mother Earth on coloured vinyl in March

Shred king Yngwie Malmsteen slams all the singers he's ever worked with
By Fraser Lewry published
Yngwie Malmsteen has spoken

Simon Cowell’s new boyband December 10 could be in legal trouble after getting confused for a Scottish metal group
By Matt Mills published
In a now-deleted post, metal outfit December Tenth invited Cowell and co. to “get in touch with ourselves and our legal team”

Jane's Addiction are talking again after last year's acrimonious break-up
By Fraser Lewry published
Six months after filing lawsuits against each other, Perry Farrell and the other members of Jane's Addiction are ready to talk about Boston

Notorious cop killer celebrated in song by multi-million-selling punk band dies aged 89
By Paul Brannigan published
Harry Roberts, the triple police killer whose 1966 murders outraged Britain, dies 11 years on from controversial release
Latest Classic Rock Features

How reggae, nostalgia and The Police inspired the song that sparked Rush’s great reinvention
By Greg Prato published
Goodbye sci-fi epics, hello surprise hit singles

“Avant-garde? It would be closer to call us ‘aven’t-a-clue!” Mick Abrahams on Blodwyn Pig
By Malcolm Dome published
Unable to perform towards the end of his life, the singer and guitarist maintained a philosophical viewpoint, and was proud of making “good, honest music without prejudice”

How a dead psychic inspired Iron Maiden to make one of the maddest concept albums of the 80s
By Dom Lawson published
Maiden’s seventh album is the ultimate fan favourite

“I wanted to end humanity!” Self-confessed egomaniac counts the ways of our deaths on apocalyptic concept abum
By Johnny Sharp published
Whether you want to spend your last five months surrounded by family, living in denial or taking part in a shaggathon, there’s a song for you on this apocalyptic concept album

James Hetfield has dropped a spoken word version of one the most famous Christmas stories of all time
By Metal Hammer published
“While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads-ah!”

The apocalyptic 1969 hit that marked the beginning of the end for one of America’s greatest rock’n’roll bands
By Henry Yates published
John Fogerty’s massive hit inadvertently captured the chaos and turbulence of late 60s America
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Prince aims for superstardom and succeeds with Purple Rain - just steer clear of the movie
By Classic Rock Magazine published
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

Jan Akkerman celebrates four decades of My Focus – Live Under The Rainbow
By Stephen Dalton published
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Freddie's solo debut remains flawed but sporadically glorious.

Sabaton's Legendary tour lives up to its name: Review
By Rich Hobson published
Thanks, but no tanks: history-loving Swedes Sabaton reinvent their stage show for the Legendary tour

Jimmy Barnes strives for solo success on second album For The Working Class Man
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Freed from Cold Chisel, Australian national treasure Jimmy Barnes called in the big guns for his attempted US breakthrough

Freddie Mercury's Mr Bad Guy at 40: Still the great album that might have been
By Stephen Dalton published
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Freddie's solo debut remains flawed but sporadically glorious.

Dave Mustaine reaches thrash metal nirvana on Megadeth's Rust In Peace
By Classic Rock Magazine published
No filler or flab on one of the most obscenely thrilling moments in all of recorded metal history








