The Best Albums Of 2023
We look back at the 50 best new releases (starting on page 19) and the standout reissues (page 56), and talk to some of the artists whose albums made our lists, including…

The Wildhearts
Ginger is winning his mental health battle, and a new Wildhearts album is on the way.

Van Halen: 1984 -We investigate the full story surrounding the creation of VH’s legendary career peak and Alex Van Halen offers personal insight with an exclusive extract from his new autobiography.

The Rolling Stones - It’s Only Rock’N’Roll (But I Like It) and the Stones in 1974: how Ronnie made his mark as the new boy and brought his genial ramshackle brilliance with him.

George Murray - The man who brought the funk to Bowie by playing bass on Station To Station, the Berlin albums trilogy and on the road as part of Bowie’s D.A.M. Trio seventies rhythm section.

Motörhead: In an exclusive extract from his Fast Eddie biography, Kris Needs looks back at the making of their game-changing Overkill album and the subsequent killing-it UK tour.

Howlin’ Wolf: We look back at the blues legend’s London sessions in 1970, with a superstar cast that included some of England’s rock royalty, a linchpin moment in the history of the blues.

Bill Wyman: WW2 evacuee, RAF airman, Rolling Stone, hit solo artist, bandleader, author, restaurateur, archaeologist, cricketer… and there’s been much, much more to his life than that.

Jon Anderson - Fronting Yes he was one of the architects of prog rock, and now he fronts his own band. But that’s only part of his wondrous story. It really has been, he’ll tell you, a wonderful life.

The Cold Stares - Album seven from the “Don’t call us southern” southern blues rockers is a love letter to Kentucky...

Aerosmith
“We didn’t give a shit about fashion. We just went out and kicked f**king ass.”

Phil Mogg
Having permanently grounded UFO, he looks back at the band he’s led and fronted for more than 50 years, and forward to his new project Moggs Hotel..

Bruce Springsteen
Forty years on, we look at how he made the album that elevated him from star to global superstar: Born In The U.S.A.

Blues Pills
Ten years and four albums in, they’ve ditched the self-imposed constraints and made exactly the record they wanted...

Black Country Communion
They say new album V is the best one they’ve made. Whether it will be their last is more difficult to answer, even for them.

The Allman Brothers
The story of the southern rockers’ landmark album At Fillmore East, Duane Allman’s last and greatest musical statement...

Black Sabbath
“We broke up, came back together, threw somebody out and got them back in again…”

Jon Bon Jovi
He started in covers bands, got the breaks, masterminded one of the biggest and biggest-selling bands of his era and became one of its biggest rock stars. And there’s more – much more…

Slash

The Guns guitarist is back with a brand new blues album, and this time he’s brought the likes of Steven Tyler, Brian Johnson, Billy Gibbons and more A-list rock friends to help him.

Sebastian Bach

He played clubs and guzzled beer at 14, fronted Skid Row and got hit records, toured with musical theatre, has a solo career… “I’ve had a pretty fucking extraordinary life,” he says.

The Black Keys

The pack leaders of the post-millennial alt.blues scene have reignited their mojo on their twelfth album, Ohio Players.

Lenny Kravitz

The multi-faceted superstar has worked with some of rock’s greatest. On his new album, he’s revisiting his youth.

Pink Floyd

Ten years on, how David Gilmour and co pulled The Endless River album out of the hat.

Nazareth

With the band’s glory days behind them, last surviving original member Pete Agnew is keeping the veteran band’s flag flying.

The Stories Behind The Songs
The Waterboys
The key line of their signature song The Whole Of The Moon “floated into my mind as if by magic” says its writer Mike Scott.

Big Big Train
With their first album following the death of their frontman, they have something he would be have been proud of..

Queen
Banned from MTV. Band members buggering off… After a stylistic detour with previous album Hot Space, with The Works Queen got back to basics, and returned to their rock roots and to the ‘real Queen’ sound.

The Black Crowes
Chris and Rich Robinson talk about growing up, breaking out, breaking up, making up, love, hate, the pros and cons of success, dizzying highs (both kinds), heartbreaking lows, lost friends, recriminations, reunions… music and much more.

Ace Frehley
The former Kiss guitarist on his old bandmates, early life, being sober and getting fit, and his latest solo album.

1984 – The Year That Everything Changed
We talk to some of the artists and look at some of the albums that helped make it the year that it was, including…

Kiss
The final show of the final tour by rock icons Kiss finally arrived. Classic Rock was there to talk to Gene and Paul about the enormity of it all, wallow in the end-of-an-era atmosphere and, yes, rock and roll all (one final) night.

Bruce Dickinson
He fronts the UK’s most successful heavy metal band, has fenced for his country, holds a commercial pilot’s licence, released solo albums, written novels and screenplays… All this and much more in The Classic Rock Interview..

Dolly Parton
The Queen Of Country talks about her new rock album and the Who’s Who of rock royalty who appear on it, and looks back over her extraordinary life.

The Struts
There have been wild nights, bad decisions, imposter syndrome and much more, but The Struts never stopped wanting to be the biggest and the best.

Brothers Osborne
Having weathered a few years of personal disclosures, their new album celebrates freedom and inclusiveness...

Status Quo
“After Piledriver had taken off the way it did, with Hello! we set out to do the same thing but at a higher level.”

Justin Hawkins
He enjoyed fame and huge commercial success, but that brought with it a downside that included serious health issues. The Darkness frontman tells all in The Classic Rock Interview..

Bryan Adams
This issue’s Guest Editor tells all!

Robbie Robertson
We remember the songwriter and lead guitarist whose highly influential group The Band gave birth to Americana..

The 80s
We look at the decade’s defining albums, revisit some of the scenes and movements that sprung up, and talk to various artists who lived to tell the tale. Including…

The Prog Revival
By the end of the 70s they thought it was all over. And few would have bet on prog rock ever coming back. But it did.

Greta Van Fleet
The guardians of rock’s eternal flame return with Starcatcher, a retro-fuelled blast that feels like it’s one for the ages.

Pat Travers
The Canadian guitarist should be better/more widely known. But, he says, our destiny is not something we control.

Wolfgang Van Halen
With his two albums so far, he’s escaping from his father’s shadow and determined to succeed on his own terms..

Queen - With their debut album turning 50 this year, we look at the birth of the band that went from stars in their eyes and fierce ambition to rock royalty.

Star Fleet Project - When Sir Brian May met Eddie Van Halen, and the making of a short-lived supergroup...

Joe Perry
Over the past 50 years he’s been in of one of the biggest bands in the world, and achieved everything he set out to do and more. The Aerosmith guitarist tells all in The Classic Rock Interview.

Rival Sons
After six albums in 15 years, and touring alongside a raft of A-listers, they reckon it’s their time to move up to the next level. And new album Darkfighter might just take them there.

Black Sabbath
“We’d spend all day farting about and end up with nothing usable.” The story of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

The Damned
With a critically acclaimed new album, they head into the future still with plenty to offer and to thrill...

Metallica
They’ve gone from being a cult metal band to a commercial household name. But even with a new album ready to storm charts worldwide they’re still angry, still insecure.

Jethro Tull
Their new album explores the apocalypse. So naturally we spoke to Ian Anderson about the end of the world.

Led Zeppelin
The making of Houses Of The Holy, the album that signposted the way forward for a band now operating at their peak.

David Crosby
We look back at the life and times of the man whose music was part of the glittering soundtrack to a golden era...

Neil Young
How he struck gold with a classic that remains his finest record: Harvest.

Those Damn Crows
They’ll always feel the pull back home to Wales, but they have the music and the big ideas that should see them go far.

Mike Oldfield
How a teenage hopeful’s debut album became a commercial and cultural phenomenon – the tale of Tubular Bells.

Thin Lizzy
“You make a live album to prove how good you are as a live band – and Lizzy was a great live band.” Scott Gorham

Thin Lizzy
With the imminent release of the 45th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Live And Dangerous, Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham look back at the troublesome birth of a classic live album – and answer the question: How live was it?

Jimi Hendrix
To celebrate what would have been his 80th-birthday year, the stars and those who knew him choose his greatest songs, relive personal memories and reflect on his legacy.

Alter Bridge
“Everything we’ve achieved, we’ve earned it.”

Six Things You Need To Know About…
Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts..

Peter Frampton
HUMBLE PIE! DAVID BOWIE! THE BEATLES!
…AND THE ALBUM THAT OWNED 1976

The Stories Behind The Songs
Ministry

Six Things You Need To Know About…
Thundermother

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