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Twisted Sister to play first UK show in a decade at Steelhouse 2026
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Mark Tremonti once performed a Led Zeppelin song with AC/DC singer Brian Johnson at a baseball player’s wedding
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Iron Maiden team up with West Ham United for joint 50th anniversary football jersey
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Sleep Token, Deftones, Linkin Park, Ghost, Spiritbox, Nine Inch Nails and more among 2026 rock and metal Grammy Award nominees
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Twisted Sister to play first UK show in a decade at Steelhouse 2026
By Fraser Lewry published
Also confirmed: The Temperance Movement, Reef, Alien Ant Farm, Tyketto, Von Hertzen Brothers and more

Mark Tremonti once performed a Led Zeppelin song with AC/DC singer Brian Johnson at a baseball player’s wedding
By Matt Mills published
“I walked up behind him like, ‘Do you want to go onstage and jam?’ He grabbed his junk and went, ‘F*** yeah, mate!’”

Iron Maiden team up with West Ham United for joint 50th anniversary football jersey
By Stef Lach published
New Iron Maiden/West Ham collab celebrates band's 50th year and 50th anniversary of football club's 1975 FA Cup win

Sleep Token, Deftones, Linkin Park, Ghost, Spiritbox, Nine Inch Nails and more among 2026 rock and metal Grammy Award nominees
By Matt Mills published
The 66th Annual Grammy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on February 1

Marillion add second Pompeii date for July 26 after selling first show in two minutes!
By Jerry Ewing published
UK prog rockers Marillion will play the world-famous Pompeii amphitheatre on July 25 and 26

Get an exclusive coloured vinyl version of the new Big Big Train album Woodcut, only through Prog
By Jerry Ewing published
Big Big Train will release their latest album, Woodcut, a narrative concept album, in February

Iron Maiden's Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson on battles, breakthroughs and the birth of a legend
By Siân Llewellyn published
Also in this issue: Ace Frehley, Ian Gillan, Judas Priest, Wolfgang Van Halen, Whiskey Myers, The Cramps, Stephen Dale Petit, Massive Wagons, Solstice, Steve Morse and more
Latest Classic Rock Features

“It was a fear I had. It was unfounded”: Studio star reveals big regret to a fan who’s now a star himself
By Jo Kendall published
The Pink Floyd collaborator thought his career would last two years. But in the past five decades he’s had surprise hits, overreacted to a myth about tape, and made colleagues believe his ideas had been their own

That time Suzi Quatro appeared as Leather Tuscadero on Happy Days and played the classic Devil Gate Drive at Arnold's Diner
By Fraser Lewry last updated
For seven episodes of Happy Days, Suzi Quatro sparkled as thief-turned-musician Leather Tuscadero, leader of Leather and the Suedes

The story of the magical Saxon classic inspired by heavy metal music, heavy metal fans and... Toto?
By Paul Elliott published
Saxon were cruising the New Wave of British Heavy Metal... and their signature tune celebrated it

Why Diary Of A Madman should be remembered as more than the album that kicked off Ozzy's crazy years
By Tom Poak published
A year on from Blizzard Of Ozz, Diary Of A Madman found Ozzy Osbourne and his band at their fiery peak, just before it all came crashing down - watch exclusive video

Pink Floyd’s Indiana Jones adventure with The Endless River
By Daryl Easlea published
Gilmour, Nick Mason and colleagues on assembling the unexpected 2014 album that paid tribute to Rick Wright, and his calming presence in a group who were “never a jolly bunch of friends”

Spinal Tap’s improbable return is the comeback no one expected – and even fewer requested
By Dave Everley published
Three men, one vision, several lawsuits
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Paul McCartney & Wings crush the myth that Macca's seventies were mid
By Fraser Lewry published
Curated by Paul McCartney, this Wings best-of charts the story of a band on its way to becoming one of the biggest-selling acts of all time

Jimi Hendrix's giant-steps second album Axis: Bold As Love, now upgraded
By Kris Needs published
The deluxe edition reissue of Axis: Bold As Love includes 40 bonus outtakes, alternative versions, TV and radio appearances

Wolfgang Van Halen finds his voice and sets a high bar on third Mammoth album
By Classic Rock Magazine published
The third Mammoth album feels like the work of a musician settling comfortably into his own space and comfortable with all that attention

The latest edition of The Bootleg Series tracks Bob Dylan from Minnesota to Greenwich Village
By Paul Whitelaw published
A legend ascends in the latest forensic deep dive into Bob Dylan’s back pages on Volume 18: Through The Open Window 1956-1963

The latest upmarket makeover of The Who's Who Are You is interesting and exhaustive
By Pat Carty published
The Who’s last blast with Keith Moon

British goth rockers Creeper outdo themselves on fangtastic fourth album
By Chris Lord published
British goth rockers Creeper outdo themselves on fangtastic fourth album





