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Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to duet on Macca's new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane
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Charity cuts ties with Sharon Osbourne after support for Tommy Robinson's anti-immigration rally
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"The fans always come first." Iron Maiden won't be attending their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
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Petition launched to save studio where Iron Maiden recorded The Number Of The Beast
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Latest Classic Rock News

Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to duet on Macca's new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane
By Stef Lach published
The two surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr sing on ode to Liverpool called Home to Us

Charity cuts ties with Sharon Osbourne after support for Tommy Robinson's anti-immigration rally
By Stef Lach published
Homelessness charity Centrepoint drops Sharon Osbourne as celebrity ambassador after her apparent support for far right movement

"The fans always come first." Iron Maiden won't be attending their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
By Paul Brannigan published
Iron Maiden aren't snubbing the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, they just won't be there

Petition launched to save studio where Iron Maiden recorded The Number Of The Beast
By Paul Brannigan published
"If this development goes ahead, we will lose far more than a studio"

Grateful Dead release Play Dead official streaming app
By Fraser Lewry published
"We are giving listeners unprecedented access to 30 years of live recordings, via one of the greatest live archives ever assembled"

Blaze Bayley on being inducted into the Rock Hall
By Rich Hobson last updated
Maiden's 90s vocalist admits it's a "real privilege" to be included with artists like Billy Idol, Joy Division and Oasis in this year's nomination

"There’s so much hate and fear." Dave Grohl on America in 2026
By Paul Brannigan published
Dave Grohl on his "deeply divided" homeland
Latest Classic Rock Features

The 70s rock classic inspired by a tragedy at sea which helped tear Mountain apart
By Max Bell published
Mountain served up a stone cold classic in Nantucket Sleighride

“Storm Thorgerson didn’t say the pig on the cover of Animals had been Roger Waters’ idea. Roger was very angry”: Why Pink Floyd didn’t go to their go-to artwork guys for The Wall, and what The Dark Side Of The Moon cover might have looked like
By Mark Blake published
Hipgnosis design house co-founder Aubrey Powell recalls the 70s from their first big success and the inflatable pig incident to destruction at the hands of a young punk artist

Savoy Brown produced members of Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, UFO and Yes – but they remain under the radar
By Dave Ling published
Savoy Brown have featured members of some of rock’s greatest bands – but they remain an mystery to most people

Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and 350,000 mud-caked people – the chaotic story of Woodstock 94
By Jon Wiederhorn published
Woodstock 94 was everything the original festival hadn’t been

How Bo Diddley, beards and a Mexican battle song set one of the greatest blues trios of the 70s on the road to 80s superstardom
By Henry Yates published
ZZ Top’s 1979 album Deguello marked the start of their most successful era

How a sci-fi classic, the moon landings and a future British Prime Minister’s dad inspired David Bowie’s first big hit
By Bill DeMain published
Space Oddity would introduce the wider world to David Bowie
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Nine Inch Nails get a Clubland-style remix: Review
By Rich Hobson published
Nine Inch Nails and recent tourmate Boys Noize have teamed up for a killer remix album to commemorate their Coachella sets

Motörhead's On Parole Sessions are a noble endeavour but the extras are perplexing
By Dave Everley published
Motörhead's shelved would-have-been debut album gets the box set treatment it doesn’t need

Supergroup Bad English's debut album is a perfect time capsule of late-80s AOR
By Classic Rock Magazine published
The million-dollar lineup of John Waite, Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, Ricky Phillips and Deen Castronovo piles on the gloss

Shakin' Street mix high-energy rock with post-punk pop sensibility on self-titled album
By Classic Rock Magazine published
What Ross The Boss did after the Dictators but before Manowar

Jim Jones All Stars' Cat Fight is a record for people who wanna have a good time, all the time
By Sleazegrinder published
Produced by the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson, Cat Fight is a sleazy Shangri-La

Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show
By Matt Mills published
Supported by Nails, Exodus and Carcass, the German luminaries reach a new level of pageantry







