Latest Classic Rock News
Birmingham Museum to host one-day event in honour of Ozzy Osbourne
Legacy of a Madman: A tribute to the Prince of Darkness takes place later this month
As a kid, superstar DJ Fatboy Slim believed that The Beatles rehearsed in his grandmother's house
"They said, 'Your uncle's in The Beatles?' Yeah, they rehearse at my nan's house"
Peter Gabriel shares latest single, the groove-laden I Belong To The Sky
Peter Gabriel is releasing a new single every full moon in the build-up to his new studio album o\i.
Alanis Morissette on the "patriarchal" criticisms of her 33-million-selling album Jagged Little Pill
"I had these fantasies that I would be snuggling up with Annie Lennox, and Joni [Mitchell] would be massaging my feet"
Pete Townshend believes that Who drummer Keith Moon once bought dinner for a nine-year-old Kurt Cobain
Amazing if true, but...
Peter Hammill returns with Tears In Time, his first new album for five years
Van der Graaf Generation frontman Peter Hammill will release new album, Tears In Time, in September
Metallica donated £20,000 to local foodbank ahead of Cardiff concert this weekend
The heavy metal giants have also teamed up with the NHS to encourage blood donations as their UK tour continues
Latest Classic Rock Features
“Our best friends were drug dealers”: The chaotic story of Aerosmith’s early years
The birth of American rock’s original Crazy Gang
The surreal story of the night Alice Cooper met Elvis Presley
When Alice Cooper received an invitation to meet Elvis Presley, things didn't go as "the cat with the snake" had imagined
“I got shot down many times: ‘It’s pop. It’s bubblegum. The logo is ugly. We don’t hear a single!’” Asia’s debut album
The fleeting moment when a prog supergroup hijacked the US pop charts, becoming 1982's band of the summer
“I think James is still fuming”: an interview with the artist who created Metallica’s Load and Reload album covers
Artist Andres Serrano looks back on his involvement with the controversial covers for Metallica’s Load and Reload albums
Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore on Page, Beck, Clapton and more
Blackmore on Hendrix, Beck, Page, Clapton, Townshend and more
“They say it all went wrong when I started singing. I think we got better”: Genesis’ A Trick Of The Tail, track by track
50 years ago, as Phil Collins took over from Peter Gabriel, the always-divisive band had fans to appease and debts to pay. This is how they did it
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
The Kinks trade music-hall whimsy for slabs of arena rock on Give The People What They Want
The Kinks' 19th studio album explored the band's harder edges and saw the reintroduction of an old friend
Unashamedly grandiose space-rockers Muse hit new disco-metal heights on The Wow! Signal
The Wow! Signal is Muse at their sharpest, eclectic and energised, but low on the bloat and bombast that sometimes marred previous albums
The Stooges mark the post-Altamont death throes of the hippy zeitgeist on Fun House
The Stooges' second album Fun House is a beautiful seven-track study in the feral and unhinged
The Rolling Stones' 25th album Foreign Tongues isn't just Hackney Diamonds II
The Rolling Stones follow up Hackney Diamonds with assistance from Paul McCartney, The Cure's Robert Smith, Steve Winwood and more
Electric Warrior – T.Rex's collection of sun-dappled narco-rockers – is more than the two hits
Marc Bolan sheds his hippy skin and reinvents himself as a golden god with a gleaming, screaming electric guitar
Guns N' Roses' Download set is a slog , but when they lock in, they still show greatness
Shave an hour off this set and we could have had something special
