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23 THINGS WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2023

Whether it’s gig, tours, festivals, spanking new albums, box-set reissues, DVDs, books or more issues of Classic Rock, there’s plenty of rockin’ good stuff coming along over the next 12 months.

Wilko Johnson

July 12, 1947 – November 21, 2022

Rolie In, Cain out?

Ongoing Journey row takes a new twist.

Hip-gnosis

New book looks at the iconic art and design team.

NEWS

The first exhibition of Status Quo memorabilia and

Faster Pussycat

Back with a new single, frontman Taime Downe talks the other ’Cat, not being industrial, and crazy 80s days.

FOREVER AMBER

Riches from the rock underground

Jared James Nichols

The second-tallest man in rock on broken bones and being an “ugly, long-haired shithead” (his words).

Magna Carta Cartel

With this band, the former Ghost Ghoul is now embracing the “optimism” of 80s pop-rock.

Ugly Kid Joe

Everything About You

Ville Valo

The former HIM frontman on life after that band, fear of covid, going MOR and choosing music over alcohol.

Christine McVie

July 12, 1943 – November 30, 2022

DANGROUS TIMES

With the release of the 45th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Thin Lizzy’s Live And Dangerous, Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham look back at the troublesome birth of a classic live album.

TAKK ONE : Action!

Moving Pictures was the album that was never supposed to be. Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson recall angry mobs, out-of-control aeroplanes and Superman in the story behind the hugely successful record that defined the sound of rock music in the early 80s.

LOST IN MUSIC

With a star-studded new album just out and a UK show set for July, Iggy Pop talks about still giving his all, no more stage diving, addictions, his fondness for the word ‘fuck’, his cockatoo, and finally taking a phone call from the Hall Of Fame.

"I had a total idea about what Dr. Feelgood was and what it should be, I was absolutely obsessed"

Sadly, we lost the iconic Wilko Johnson in November. When Dr. Feelgood’s debut album Down By The Jetty turned 40 in 2015, the then surviving feelgoods -Wilko, Sparko, The Big Figure and manager Chris ‘Whitey’ Fenwick – looked back at the making of their classic record.

DOUBLE TROUBLE

In the lead-up to the double-bill tour of The Darkness and Black Stone Cherry, frontmen Justin Hawkins and Chris Robertson compare notes on vocal prowess, backstage riders and the perils of doing David Lee Roth-style splits.

THE HOT LIST

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

ALBUMS

Iggy Pop Every Loser GOLD TOOTH/ATLANTIC Former Stooges

REISSUES

Thin Lizzy Live And Dangerous – Eight-CD Super

BOOKS & DVDs

The Philosophy Of Modern Song Bob Dylan SIMON

The Band

Few artists, if any, have captured rustic, earthy Americana as well as this – strangely, mostly non-American – group.

Francis Dunnery’s It Bites

It Bites’ original guitarist/singer plays dates with his own version of the band in January.

Rebecca Downes

The Bonamassa-approved singer comes to a venue near you.

Trivium

The Floridian metalheads gear up for shows in Britain and Ireland, beginning in mid-January.

Tour Dates

REVIEWS

Rod Stewart London O2 Arena Rod delivers a glorious

The Soundtrack Of My Life

Eurovision star Sam Ryder, on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him

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