Tracks & Singles

How a neurotic 19-year-old and a guitarist with a razor created The Kinks' All Day And All Of The Night

By Rob Hughes published 23 March 26

The story of the song that schooled Metallica's James Hetfield

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 23, 2026

By Polly Glass published 23 March 26

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Muse, Crown Lands, the Black Keys and more

How London’s famous clock tower and a flirtatious groupie inspired Jimi Hendrix's last great song

By Bill DeMain published 23 March 26

A story of Hawaiian volcanoes and Mick Jagger's bloody finger

The story of Iggy & The Stooges' ferocious classic Search And Destroy

By Ian Fortnam published 20 March 26

The Stooges' Search And Destroy began with James Williamson "goofing around making machine-gun sounds" but countless others adopted its combination of pounding rhythm and aggressive guitar

Can you imagine Pink Floyd’s The Wall without Comfortably Numb? Roger Waters once did

By Daryl Easlea published 19 March 26

The band’s signature track was the source of great disagreement as their massive 1979 concept album came together. Its absence could have robbed them of one of their greatest onstage moments

The story of Forty-Five Hundred Times, the Status Quo classic that ended a partnership

By Dave Ling published 18 March 26

Forty-Five Hundred Times was the song that threw a spanner in the songwriting partnership of Status Quo's Parfitt and Rossi, but it took on a life of its own, and they even extended it for royalty

In crisis, Deep Purple combined two high-profile figures to create an anti-censorship classic

By Neil Jeffries published 17 March 26

The story of a song that merged Mary Whitehouse's infamous clean-up campaign with tensions caused by Ritchie Blackmore

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 16, 2026

By Polly Glass published 16 March 26

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from The Lemon Twigs, Devon Townsend, All Them Witches and more

How the Marshall Tucker Band made Can’t You See, the southern rock that deserves to be up there with Sweet Home Alabama

By Dave Ling published 15 March 26

The Marshall Tucker Band made a stone-cold southern rock classic with Can’t You See

“He smashed the LP against the wall. It was the only one we had!” Prog pioneers’ doubts over the song that made their name

By Joe Banks published 14 March 26

With the help of The Who and Jimi Hendrix, and a helmet he found outside his hotel room, the bandleader acquired a nickname he’s now carried for nearly 60 years