Classic Rock Magazine - June 2023

In this issue

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...

George Harrison My Sweet Lord

Written after the former Beatle had been inspired by an old gospel song, it’s remembered as much for the plagiarism legal battle it led to as it is for just being a lovely song.

4 mins

Alice Cooper

The godfather of shock-rock on the Hollywood Vampires, having a stress-free life, and never expecting to live past 30

4 mins

Arielle 6 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT...

The guitarist and singer-songwriter on choirs, clowning and heartto-hearts with Brian May, ahead of her game-raising new album

3 mins

bloody hell

Write some songs, get into studio, come out with an album. It worked before. But when it came to making the follow-up to Vol. 4, Black Sabbath couldn't even get started. \"We'd spend all day farting about and end up with nothing usable.\" This is the story of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

10+ mins

ANDY SUMMERS

The unfeasibly young-looking 80-year-old talks about conquering the world alongside two total arseholes” in The Police, his apprenticeship’ with Zoot Money and others, life after The Police, the reunion, his long-time passion for photography, and much more

10+ mins

LANDS OF HOPE AND GLORY

Rising Canadian hopefuls Crown Lands are modern proggers taking threads from the genre's illustrious past and weaving them into the present

7 mins

SPIRITS PAST SPIRITS PRESENT

Re-made and remodelled, and with a critically acclaimed new album that echoes moments from their post-punk past, The Damned head into the future still with plenty to offer and to thrill

9 mins

BRAVE NEW WORLD

With a new album that's their heaviest, rockiest yet, Rodrigo y Gabriela are boldly taking metal and rock to where no one has so successfully taken it before

5 mins

AMERICAN BANDSTAND

They sold out Shea Stadium faster than The Beatles. In the early 70s, no American hard rock band was bigger than Grand Funk Railroad. Singer/guitarist Mark Farner looks back

9 mins

'MAEL SUPREMACY

Since their dramatic arrival in the UK via TV screens in the early 70s, Sparks have continued to make extraordinary music on their own terms. Now they're enjoying a late-career renaissance

10+ mins

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The trusted voice of the rock community since 1998, Classic Rock is your all-access pass, taking you backstage with exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes insights into rock's biggest names, from living legends to the new generation.