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.

Classic Rock

WELCOME

This month’s contributors

Steve Marriott AI Plans Spark Fury • Stars, bandmates and family rally against ‘new’ tracks being released.

RIP • Thank you… and good night.

NEWS

Freedom • Meet the Swedes hoping their new album will get them off couches and into nice hotels.

Battlesnake • Judge how these Aussie rockers sound by how they look and you’ll be making a big mistake.

Lindisfarne Lady Eleanor • A song about death might not sound like hit-single material, but it struck a chord with the British public and helped transform the Geordie band’s fortunes, and remains a classic of the period.

Marcus King • The guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader on his new album, love and loss, mental health and having a ‘real job’.

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON… • For more than 50 years, AC/DC have stuck steadfastly, uncompromisingly to their singular high-voltage rock’n’roll, through a storm-lashed career that has seen them survive changes in musical fashion, the death of band members and more. It’s a long way to the top, and somehow they’ve managed to stay there. Classic Rock, Francis Rossi, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry look at how.

LET THERE BE DRUMS… LET THERE BE GUITAR… LET THERE BE ROCK… • Given events surrounding AC/DC in recent years, anyone could be excused for thinking it was all over for one of rock’s all-time-great bands. But then… Classic Rock gets thunderstruck at the first show of their first tour in eight years. Let there be AC/DC!

ANN WILSON & NANCY WILSON HEART • The Heart mainstays’ long and eventful career has taken the two sisters collectively and individually to thin-air highs and crushing lows, in a 50-year roller-coaster rock’n’roll saga. Along the way they’ve made some wonderful music. And their journey continues…

HIGH FIVE • The overwhelming consensus in Black Country Communion is that new album V is the best one they’ve made so far. Whether it will also be their last is a question far more difficult to answer, even for them.

EVER MEET LEMMY? • He’s mates with Queen, he’s worked with Bowie, listened politely to lengthy jams at Frank Zappa’s house, had bass legend Jaco Pastorius stay at his house, found out things he didn’t know about his career from Joe Elliott, got a song idea from Bob Dylan complaining about the Stones… He’s Ian Hunter, solo artist and former Mott The Hoople frontman, and these are some of his stories.

When Life Gives You Lemons… • With the sounds of The Beatles, Beach Boys and other 60s/70s pop masters in their heads, brothers Michael and Brian D’Addario, aka The Lemon Twigs, have spent most of their lives in search of perfect pop. And unlike most who try, they get very close.

LIVE WIRES • In 1971, a band of unknown southern rockers found fame – and lost their leader. This is the story of the Allman Brothers Band’s landmark album At Fillmore East, Duane Allman’s last and greatest musical statement.

The HOT List • THE ESSENTIAL NEW ROCK TRACKS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH AND THE BANDS TO HAVE ON YOUR RADAR

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK… • This issue we’ve teamed up with the good people at Mascot Records to bring you this exclusive 12-track compilation of some of the very best sounds out there.

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