Classic Rock

Every month Classic Rock is packed with exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes features on rock’s biggest names, from Led Zeppelin to Deep Purple, from Guns N’ Roses to the Rolling Stones, from the Sex Pistols to AC/DC and beyond. Each issue plays host to the heftiest rock reviews section on the planet. In an average issue, you’ll find over 150 albums reviewed, all from the ever-varied, multi-faceted world of rock - whether it’s hard rock or heavy metal, prog or punk, goth rock or southern rock, we’ve got it covered.

WELCOME

Classic Rock

TONY CLARKIN • Dave Ling looks back at the life and music of the Magnum guitarist, songwriter and mainstay of the band across five decades.

Chad Allan

Del Palmer

RIP

Colin Burgess

Martin-Era Sabbath Box Due

NEWS

‘Kiss For Ever’ Plans Starting To Take Shape

Robby Krieger • The former Doors guitarist returns with his new band and a new album of more instrumentals.

Lucifer • From Stockholm via Berlin, a new 70s-inspired occult-rock force is on the rise!

Philip Sayce • The resurgent bluesman on industry sharks, his werewolf obsession and the dangers of drinking at LA parties.

NEWS

HALLELUJAH

Ministry • Ministry return as a band rather than just Al Jourgensen, and there’s venom in the new album.

Black Crowes Reveal Album

NEWS

“It’s been an incredible ride.” • Roger Daltrey’s run with the Teenage Cancer Trust comes to an end.

Sheer Mag • Philadelphians who kept their powder dry for an imminent fusillade of 70s noise rock.

Don Henley • How Don Henley turned a song from Tom Petty’s reject pile into a generational anthem about lost innocence.

Ace Frehley • The former Kiss guitarist on his old bandmates, early life, being sober and getting fit, and his latest solo album.

THE YEAR WHEN EVERTHING CHANGED • Sitting between the heritage of the 70s and the glitzy, big-haired peak to which the 80s would ascend, 1984 was a quietly pivotal time for music, popular culture and the world as we knew it.

POWER PLAY • When it came to making the follow-up to 1983’s Piece Of Mind album, Iron Maiden knew they needed to come up with something a bit special. That was Powerslave.

DEEP PURPLE PERFECT STRANGERS • The reunited MkII returned with neither a wimper nor a bang, but something in between.

HUSKER DU ZEN ARCADE

METALLICA RIDE THE LIGHTNING

THE CARS HEARTBEAT CITY

TWISTED SISTER STAY HUNGRY

THE REPLACEMENTS LET IT BE

THE MONSTER OF ALL MONSTERS 1984 • With a heavyweight line-up including Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Van Halen, Mötley Crüe and more, Monsters Of Rock 1984 is still revered in festival folklore, seen by many as the best, in large part due to Van Halen’s incendiary (and ultimately foreshadowing) performance.

WHITESNAKE SLIDE IT IN • Their last album before MTV changed everything, it marked the end of an era for the band.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BORN IN THE USA

THE (OTHER) FAB FOUR • They jangled, they spangled, they sang harmonies... This is how four Beatles-crazed California girls, aka The Bangles, wooed 1984 with their power-pop debut All Over The Place.

THE PRETENDERS LEARNING TO CRAWL • Their third album was a career zenith in both commercial success and songwriting skills.

NEW MODEL ARMY VENGEANCE

JUDAS PRIEST DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH

HANOI ROCKS TWO STEPS FROM THE MOVE

R.E.M. RECKONING

DIO THE LAST IN LINE • Unencumbered by the curse of the second album, it was the first Dio album to go platinum.

ALL THE WAY TO 11 • Eleven ways in which the 1984 film Spinal Tap changed the lexicon of rock.

RUSH GRACE UNDER PRESSURE

ECHO & THE...