Latest articles by Paul Elliott
At the moment Perry joined, the band was in danger of being dropped by Columbia Records
The band were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on 8 November
"I had my jazz guys, I had my blues guys, my fusion guys"
Producer Mutt Lange told the story to Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger
“Not keeping Van Halen together – that was a failure to me"
“We knew that people were gonna go crazy listening to this amazing thing”
“Such a gifted, unbelievably sweet and wonderful person"
Subjects include boozing, electrocution, rockets and torpedoes
"His legacy will live on in the hearts of the KISS Army," says drummer Peter Criss
Plus: the British band that inspired the young Skynyrd to work harder
"The guitar suffered in a lot of the mixes," Lifeson said
“People have a hard time understanding how unsurprising Bohemian Rhapsody was to us," May says
He’s just not sure when
But was Hurdy Gurdy Man really the template for Stairway To Heaven?
Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire called them “the world’s biggest cult band”
All Gibson Les Paul Standards from 1959 are special but what is it about the ZZ Top frontman's Pearly Gates that makes it so unique? As Gibbons says, it might be something entirely supernatural
"It had harmony parts, trading-off solos and a much harder rock edge"
"Ronnie said, 'Just go till I tell you to quit!'"
"It was really based on rap stuff – not your standard rock song”
It's 50 years since the release of Kiss Alive!
Davies and Roger Hodgson made great music together, but it couldn’t last
Plus: how the Texan trio created something new out of an old hip-hop track
