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for our latest subscription offers.ROB HUGHES
Rob has been writing for
Classic Rock for more than
a decade now. This month
he chats to comeback kings
The Wildhearts about their
blistering return to form
(p 60). When not scribbling
for Classic Rock, Rob is
a weekly guest of BBC
6Music presenter Marc Riley,
with whom he also hosts the
pretty nifty podcast The A-Z
Of David Bowie.WILL IRELAND
This issue we dispatched
Will to north London in
the company of Royal
Republic to document
them spending 50 quid
of Classic Rock’s cash on
records and tapes
(sometimes of a dubious
nature) for our Record
Shop Challenge (p62).
Check out more of Will’s
work at willireland
photography.co.ukGRANT MOON
Now slightly less hirsute
than this photograph would
suggest, music journalist
and radio producer Grant
has been a Classic Rock
contributor for more years
than he likes to consider.
This issue he gets to indulge
his passion for six-strings and
gets all geeky about guitars
with axeman extraordinaire
and former Mr. Big man Paul
Gilbert (p16).ave you ever stopped to
consider how the rock’n’roll
landscape has changed over
the past few decades? Of all the
ways that things have evolved, the
one fact that never ceases to amaze
me is the speed at which artists
used to release albums – and not
just any old ‘filler’ albums at that.
Ponder for a moment some more contemporary
releases: there were eight years between the last two
Metallica albums, eight years between the last two
Aerosmith studio albums, a whopping 15 between
GN’R’s The Spaghetti Incident? and Chinese Democracy...
You get the idea. But it was a different ball game
back in the 60s and 70s, when artists would
regularly pop out two stone-cold classics within the
space of a year – Led Zep I and II, anyone?
Or, for example, this issue’s cover stars
Motörhead, who delivered Overkill and Bomber
within the space of eight months in 1979. This
month we look back at the making of Bomber, and
also take a look at some other classic albums that
announced themselves to the world 40 years ago,
from artists who would go on to even greater
success in the following decade.
Speaking of the 80s, this issue we also celebrate
that decade in the life of Queen – the years in which
they had it all, lost it all and reclaimed it...Siân Llewellyn,
EditorTHE COVERS:
MOTÖRHEAD: PHOTO BY ESTATE OF KEITH MORRIS/REDFERNS/GETTY;
QUEEN: ALAMY