Classic Rock - Motor Head (2019-07)

Sounds that the drummer was “unable to take constructive criticism”, elaborating with: “Whitesnake was getting to be a like a Sp ...

T he popular perception is that ZZ Top morphed as they crossed the boundary line into the 80s. Where once the Texans had been a ...

“Cars, girls, fast and loud – those elements were starting to gel.” Billy Gibbons work in the girl theme. Cars, girls, fast and ...

I f there was one 70s rock band that seemed machine-tooled for the dawning new decade, it was Van Halen. Frontman David Lee Roth ...

GET TY F ew burned as brightly yet briefly as The Knack. And few have had their image so muddled by history. Within a couple of ...

B iff Byford recalled it as the moment when “the dam began to burst”. In May 1979, Saxon, the Yorkshire-based heavy metal band f ...

GET TY x^2 I t has been said that Billy Idol invented the 80s. It’s true, he did. The 80s didn’t really kick in until about 1984 ...

From growing up in poverty, to being in one of the biggest bands in rock history as they flew high then crashed and burned, Don ...

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magnets, the southern states had their own developing musical ecosystems. Gainesville had Felder and Stills and Bernie Leadon. U ...

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all that stuff. ‘Do I really quit this great-paying gig to join a band that might break up.’” In the end it was Graham Nash who ...

I n the early days of 1982, a letter postmarked ‘California’ arrived at the three-bedroom semi in Stourbridge in the West Midlan ...

Head was fifty per cent of what ended up being Metallica. We got the whole thing about riffs and structuring from them. The othe ...

As Sean Harris said at the time: “We wanted to call the album Makin’ Music. That way we could justify all the different things o ...

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Since the early 90s The Wildhearts have continued to light up the rock world – and been through hell in the process. Now they’re ...

The current and classic Wildhearts line-up: (l-r) CJ, Ginger, Ritch Battersby, Danny McCormack. “ W e’re like family, you can’t ...

offices of music publications and incite near-riots at festivals in Europe. I t seemed as though we might have heard the last of ...