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NEIL JEFFRIES Ex-Kerrang! Dep Ed Neil first crossed

CLASSIC ROCK

Editor Siân Llewellyn Now playing: Beaux Gris Gris

Art And The Album Cover

New exhibition digs into classic and not-so-classic album art

RIP Thank you and good night.

Barry Bailey June 12, 1948 – March 12,

Roxy Reunite!

Ferry and company reveal surprise 50th-anniversary comeback shows. And all albums are being reissued

Quireboys Sack Frontman Spike

Accusations fly as band to continue as a five-piece

Pink Floyd Release Single

First new original music since ’94 to raise money for Ukraine

Morse On Break From Purple

Guitarist Steve takes time out to look after his ill wife

NEWS

A fully authorised coffee-table book about UK prog

Motor Sister

For this Los Angeles 'supergroup' that includes Anthrax's Scott Ian, it's all about a love of classic rock

Moon Tooth

Drawing from a melting pot of influences, they are fronted by a singer with bite – literally

ASHKAN

In From The Cold, Decca Nova, UK, 1969. £200

NEWS

Foo Fighters dominated the rock categories at this

Deborah Bonham

The blues and rock singer on working with her partner and finding the humour in playing with a band

MY FIRST LOVE

Genesis SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND By Fish

NEWS

Hall & Oates singer Daryl Hall claims he

Edgar Winter

The late Johnny Winter’s brother returns with a starstudded album dedicated to the blues great

Creeping Jean

Dig out your dancing shoes and shake it to Brighton’s most stylish rockers

Pink Floyd

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Brent Smith

The Shinedown vocalist on extra-terrestrials, getting terrified before shows, and wanting to make a great chocolate cake

Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse

This Anglo-American roots duo are darting between genres and dancing as the world crumbles

Taylor Hawkins

17 February 1972 – 25 March 2022 We join the rock‘n’roll community in remembering and celebrating the life of the Foo Fighters drummer, a natural showman and perennial ‘Mister Fanboy’

ELECTRIC WARRIORS

The kind of setbacks that Def Leppard have had to face over the past 45 years would have finished off many bands, either creatively or completely. But, having successfully weathered storms and fought many battles, now they’re on the up again

FELL ON BLACK DAYS

Without doubt under-appreciated, if not exactly underrated, drummer Bill Ward was an integral part of Black Sabbath and of heavy metal’s genesis. In conversation with Classic Rock, he reflects on his eventful life thus far

"WE MAKE NOISE"

Halestorm are back to doing what they love most, what they’d be doing even if nobody cared – and it sounds utterly fierce

THE SKY'S THE LIMIT

Returning after a 14-year hiatus, Swedish rock mavericks The Hellacopters look at where it all went wrong, and right

A NEW LIFE

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson tells Classic Rock why he couldn’t settle for a retirement on the golf course, and enthuses about the invigorating powers of his latest project Envy Of None

TIMING IS EVERYTHING

Former Status Quo drummer John Coghlan admits his career is coming to an end, but he’s not quite ready to lock the door on it

When The Shooter met The Wolf

Ever the maverick, Shooter Jennings teamed up with rapper Yelawolf. The result is a heartland rock record spiked with thrash, country, electronica and moonshine recipes

Breaking Bad

It was the album that sealed Aerosmith’s legend as the greatest US rock’n’roll band of the 70s. But their drug-addled masterpiece Rocks was also the point where things started to get really messy…

Reef

THE £50 RECORD S TORE CHALLENGE

The HOT List

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

THE HARD STUFF ALBUMS

Def Leppard Diamond Star Halos UME Studio album

REISSUES

The Clash Combat Rock SONY Apocalypse again! Classic

STUFF BOOKS & DVDs

Why Patti Smith Matters Caryn Rose FABER In

BUYER’S GUIDE

Magnetic pole: David Wyndorf. Monster Magnet Throwing space-rock

Bryan Adams

Canada’s finest on getting back to touring and why he never tires of playing that song

Geoff Tate

The former Queensrÿche singer is hoping it’s third time lucky

Blondie

Debbie Harry on climate change, the Hall Of Fame, surviving and… painting the bedroom

Royal Blood Swansea Arena

‘Blood, sweat and cheers at Swansea’s new major venue

Yungblud / Nova Twins London Royal Albert Hall

Doncaster’s rising talent presents a royal rumble in the capital

New Model Army Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

Vets deliver impressive firepower from their extensive arsenal

Kris Barras Band Cardiff The Tramshed

Tries are rewarded handsomely in the Welsh capital

The Mysterines London Electric Ballroom

The spirit of 90s alt.rock fed through a 2020s prism

Bad Nerves London Sebright Arms

Essex power-pop-punks on fire in sweatbox spectacular

The Chats London Electric Ballroom

Gloriously riotous scenes as Australian punk trio level the capital

Supergrass Oxford O2 Academy

Potential final homecoming for Wheatley’s favourite sons

The Soundtrack Of My Life

Thunder guitarist Luke Morley on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him