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David Lee Roth has cancelled his US tour – and he’s got a message of support from Sammy Hagar
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Bob Seger releases Face The Promise on vinyl for the first time: Unreleased song Little Jane out now
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Ray and Dave Davies are getting on well and would "never say never" to a Kinks reunion
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Ghost release first trailer for concert film/documentary 2 Big To Rig
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Latest Classic Rock News

David Lee Roth has cancelled his US tour – and he’s got a message of support from Sammy Hagar
By Dave Everley Published
“Come on, join us in Vegas, sing a couple of songs, MC the damn show”

Bob Seger releases Face The Promise on vinyl for the first time: Unreleased song Little Jane out now
By Fraser Lewry Published
Bob Seger's platinum album Face The Promise has been expanded to celebrate its 20th anniversary

Ray and Dave Davies are getting on well and would "never say never" to a Kinks reunion
By Fraser Lewry Published
The Kinks: Brothers exhibition of paintings is currently showing in London

Ghost release first trailer for concert film/documentary 2 Big To Rig
By Matt Mills Published
The behind-the-scenes look at the Swedes’ globe-trotting Skeletour hits cinemas and IMAX screens next month

Iron Maiden thank fans who attended Eddfest and reveal Edd's dive bar was robbed
By Fraser Lewry Published
Go behind the scenes at Knebworth Park with Steve Harris and some very enthusiastic fans

Watch Bruce Springsteen, Slash, Dave Grohl, Nancy Wilson, Billy Gibbons and more share memories of LA's most rock 'n' roll hotel in trailer for new documentary
By Paul Brannigan Published
Star-studded documentary promises to lift the lid on the history of LA's legendary rock 'n' roll bolthole, the Sunset Marquis

Hollywood Vampires launch cover of Motörhead's Ace Of Spades
By Fraser Lewry Published
Supergroup Hollywood Vampires tour Europe next month to mark the release of the live album At Montreux Jazz Festival
Latest Classic Rock Features

Meet Hanoi Rocks legend Sami Yaffa's new band The Sideshows
By Julian Marszalek Published
Former Hanoi/Dolls bassist Sami Yaffa’s new trio The Sideshows look to “get the rock’n’roll spirit” into their music

The 10 songs that influenced Desmond Child the most
By Fraser Lewry Published
Desmond Child sold millions with Aerosmith, Kiss, Bon Jovi and more – and his new live album, recorded in an ancient Greek amphitheatre, is a celebration of those songs

“We thought we had a ghost living in the bathroom.” Inspired by The Diary of Anne Frank, Neutral Milk Hotel's 1998 album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea was acclaimed as one of the '90s finest records. Then its creator disappeared
By David McLaughlin Published
How the writings of a courageous German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim inspired one of the great cult albums of the '90s

When a soft-focus love song star planted a prog suite on his solo album
By Daryl Easlea Published
Best known for the soft rock stylings of California band Bread, David Gates proved he was capable of much more on 1973’s First.

How Symphony Of Destruction turned Megadeth from tech-thrashers to Platinum-selling sensation
By Clay Marshall Published
Dave Mustaine revisits the 1992 anthem that lifted his band to heavy metal’s A-tier

“We could have been bigger. We’re our own worst enemies": How Roxy Music got it together despite themselves
By Paul Lester Published
They looked like they were from “Planet Zog” and sneaked through a gap created by drug addiction - but the members accept they could have made it easier for themselves
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Mongol champions The Hu take after their hard rock heroes on long-awaited new album Hun
By Matt Mills Published
The folk metal horde have been endorsed by Metallica and Iron Maiden – and their third album bears those icons’ influence

Robyn Hitchcock's enigmatic The Confuser is the best album he's released this century
By David Quantick Published
The Confuser is the twenty-fifth post-Soft Boys waxing from alt. stalwart Robyn Hitchcock

Foreigner's new album is a pleasant souvenir with almost zero atmosphere
By Essi Berelian Published
Not a lot of thunder and lightning (or original members) on Foreigner's’s 50th-anniversary live album In The Eye Of The Storm

Pete Townshend finds stable ground away from The Who on Empty Glass
By Classic Rock Magazine Published
Empty Glass was Pete Townshend’s response to the death of Keith Moon and the arrival of punk

Some of Small Faces’ greatest songs - and a managerial battle – documented on Decca Singles 1965-1967
By Sylvie Simmons Published
Still small but perfectly formed after all these years

System Of A Down's UK return was electric, euphoric and one of the best stadium shows in recent memory
By Merlin Alderslade Published
"Are System Of A Down back?!" one fan on our row remarked. Yes, yes they absolutely are






