Latest articles by Paul Elliott
“I haven’t written anything on the new album. Bang go my royalties!”: When Bruce Dickinson was Iron Maiden’s odd man out
“There was none of me on that record – I was just AWOL mentally”
“We really have no business being in a band together”: Lindsey Buckingham on Fleetwood Mac’s weird dynamic
And why he once sang about himself as “a visionary”
“It was something Ozzy was very passionate about”: Sharon Osbourne wants to bring back Ozzfest
But there's a twist: “I’d like to mix up the genres”
“The sound of his guitar has got that hard edge to it. It’s not clean – it’s nasty!”: Angus Young's guitar heroes
Plus: the story of AC/DC's greatest blues song
“It’s about a bloke who’s not sure whether he’s died or dreaming. Like a bad hangover!”: Iron Maiden's spooky anthem
Plus: Bruce Dickinson on the epic Alexander The Great
“On the first album I avoided doing a lot of cutting on the tape”: The perfectionist who's made six albums in 50 years
“The work in the studio is very high pressure. And there aren’t any breaks”
“The studio bill was £148.50. So with the £1.50 in change we all bought fish and chips”: Def Leppard's low-budget EP
“It was difficult doing the scream in The Overture on a Sunday morning”
“You get the old albums and listen to them until four in the morning”: Ex-Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies at 71
He played on the band’s landmark albums and the worldwide hit Wind Of Change
“Lou fixated on her and his vocal was done in one take”: How Foreigner and producer Mutt Lange created a classic hit
“We put ourselves under a lot of pressure making that record”
“It gave us loads of publicity’”: The controversial Iron Maiden classic featured in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
“Six six six, the one for you and me!”
“I took inspiration from Iron Maiden. And for the lyric, David Bowie’s Space Oddity”: A rock band’s global No.1 hit
“We were thrown into this weird pop world – it was madness”
“Have we done anything that would create such a horrible atmosphere that a fan would take their own lives?”: Judas Priest’s darkest days
“We couldn’t understand it. It didn’t make sense”
“I remember thinking, ‘This is the kiss of death!’”: The singer who had a bad feeling about a song – before it hit No.1
Plus: why this singer would have refused an audition for Toto
“I had such a connection with it”: On his 26th birthday, Jimmy Page played his beloved Les Paul Black Beauty in a legendary Led Zeppelin show
And soon after, that famous guitar vanished
“Clapton hated it when the volume went up. He actually said to Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, ‘You’re too loud!’”
He also claims that Page "begged" John Paul Jones to join Led Zeppelin
“I remember saying to Clapton, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: The secret to Status Quo's riff power
"That song is where the Quo twelve-bar boogie shuffle came from"
“When Ronnie sang about Neil Young that was kind of a joke”: The true story of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama
"Neil wanted to play the song with us!"
“Eddie told me, ‘Roth is driving me nuts'": When Eddie Van Halen asked to join Kiss — and they turned him down!
“After Smells Like Teen Spirit, there was no place for bands like us”: The life and death of a hair metal band
Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them
"We all adored BB, and he asked us to write something for him": The song that Whitesnake wrote for the King of the Blues
And they later did the same thing with Tina Turner
“In the ’80s, everybody came out with a power ballad. And we had a great one”: How a soft rock classic was created
But was that song really about a nun who sells dope to school kids?
“The record company said, ‘It’s too long.’ But we said, ‘We don’t care!’”: How Lynyrd Skynyrd created a legendary epic
"Ronnie said, 'Just go till I tell you to quit!'"
“The greatest rock ballad of all time!”: The classic song that held the No.2 spot for 10 weeks without ever hitting No.1
But at least the album made it to the top
