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

BERNIE MARSDEN • Best known for co-founding Whitesnake and as a writer of some of their classic songs, Bernie spent a lifetime walking in the shadow of the blues. Here, friends and bandmates recall one of the finest blues-rock guitarists of his generation.

Jimmy Buffett

Chris Overland

Gary Wright

RIP

Inger Lorre • The former Nymphs frontwoman returns, hoping to shine some light into a very dark world.

Hall Of Fame Sacks Co-Founder

AC/DC Dates Being Planned?

NEWS

James And The Cold Gun • From Foo Fighters covers in a garage to GN’R in Hyde Park, the Welsh rockers are going up.

Marsupilami

NEWS

Needtobreathe • Navigating the ‘Christian band’ tag, learning from Taylor Swift, and their ongoing quest to make ‘big’ music.

Geese • For these prodigious New York noiseniks, it all began just as they were about to call it a day.

Fleetwood Mac • How a song forged from disparate scraps came to represent the decade-spanning resilience and staying power of Fleetwood Mac.

Danko Jones • The Danko Jones frontman on not going to festivals, not going out, not getting any awards and putting in the air-guitar hours.

Saint Agnes • Their metal-meets-punk debut album is angry – very angry. They live for the stage, and that’s where they come alive.

Say Hello • Sometimes, a band works on an album and everything clicks. For Status Quo, their 1973 No.1 Hello! was just such an album. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t problems.

Bown To Boogie

INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE • Disillusioned with much of modern music and its presentation, Creeper up the drama and the slap and take things over-the-top with their new goth-rock vampire opera album.

Je ne regrette rien • He’s a lauded blues guitar hero and much more, but Joe Bonamassa is no stranger to self-doubt. We met him ahead of a scorching show in a French castle, reflecting on an unusual life, audience expectations and finding happiness with his lot.

JUSTIN HAWKINS • Fronting The Darkness gave the former advertising jingle writer fame, huge commercial success and a collection of catsuits, but that brought with it a downside that included an early band split and serious health issues. He tells Classic Rock all about it and more besides.

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED • Musician, songwriter, producer, go-to remixer, Steven Wilson is viewed by many as a renaissance man of modern prog. He’s also something of an enigma. Maybe his new album, which “encapsulates so much of my musical personality”, will answer more questions than it poses.

FOLLOW THE FELLOW WHO FOLLOWS A DREAM • In December 1973, Elton John finished a triumphant 13-date UK tour. It capped off an extraordinary year in which his album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road reinforced in some style his status as a global superstar.

EVER MEET LEMMY • MMYThey played hungover baseball with Jack White, went street racing with Chrissie Hynde, took a mysterious delivery from Steven Tyler, clashed with Paris Hilton, fought bouncers alongside Kings Of Leon… They are The Cadillac Three and these are their stories.

The Hot List • THE ESSENTIAL NEW ROCK TRACKS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH AND THE BANDS TO HAVE ON...