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ΤΙΝΑ TURNER: November 26, 1939 - May 24, 2023

From a cotton-picking child, through years of physical abuse at the hands of her husband, her talent and determination saw her rise to become one of the greatest ever music stars, the Queen Of Rock’N’Roll, simply the best

WE WANT IT ALL, AND WE WANT IT NOW

One minute they were taking the bus and watching their Top Of The Pops performance in a shop window, the next they had the world at their feet. With Queen’s 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

THE ODD COUPLE

Ahead of their gig with Iggy Pop at July's Dog Day Afternoon, Blondie's Clem Burke and former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock talk punk... and more punk

"We still want to conquer the world"

As Extreme gear up to release their first new album in 15 years, frontman Gary Cherone and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt look back at where it all went right. And wrong

HERE COMES THE SONS

After six albums in 15 years, and touring alongside a raft of A-listers, Rival Sons reckon it's their time to move up to the next level. And new album Darkfighter might just take them there

JOE PERRY

Over the past 50 years he's been in (and out) of one of the biggest bands in the world, and enjoyed all the trappings that brings, not all of them healthy. Having achieved everything he set out to do and more, these days all the Aerosmith guitarist really wants to do is play

6 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT...Demob Happy

They like to pretend it's the 70s, they're anti everything, and they enjoyed getting one over Amazon's Jeff Bezos

Ayron Jones

The guitar hotshot on Hendrix comparisons, the price and perks of fame, and wanting to \"not just be a great musician\"

Steely Dan Reelin' In The Years

A track on 1972's debut Can't Buy A Thrill, it includes Jimmy Page's favourite guitar solo, nailed by guest guitarist Elliott Randall in just two takes - the engineer having missed the first one

BLACK SABBATH - THE BALLET!

No, it’s tutu late to be an April Fool. Tony lommi and the project's creative team explain.

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alice Cooper

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

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.

RESURRECTION DAYS

After a career peppered with notable successes – and a fair few line-up changes and fall-outs – in the mid-80s Kansas came close to being dead and buried. But, taking the advice of their most famous song title, they picked themselves up and carried on…

STRING THEORY

Next month Def Leppard release Drastic Symphonies, reworked classic Leps tracks accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. They invited us to Abbey Road Studios to watch it take shape.

TIME BANDITS

Some bands are retro. Some bands are very retro. Dutch trio DeWolff take that to the max in everything they do, looking back for inspiration and feeding it into something new.

THE MAGIC FLUTE

The second new Jethro Tull album in two years, Rokfléte, explores Ragnarok, the Norse interpretation of the apocalypse. So naturally, we spoke to lan Anderson about the end of the world.

IAN HUNTER

He's older than rock'n'roll itself, and back with an all-star cast on his new album on Sun Records. Here he talks to CR about working with Jeff Beck and Taylor Hawkins, punk rock, Alex Harvey, David Bowie, and sex and drugs in the 7Os. This is what he’s here for.

MEN FOR ALL SEASONS

Stranger things: in their 40-plus years Metallica have gone from being a cult metal band to a commercial juggernaut and a household name. But even with new album 72 Seasons ready to storm charts worldwide they're still angry, still insecure.

Inspector Cluzo

Environmentally-friendly French farming is a proving ground we didn't predict, but blues rock has always been rooted geddit?) in the country.

Richard Marx

Hazard He only recorded it to prove people wrong and he considered it his worst ever song. So just how did the AOR singer’s global smash hit come about?

GARY ROSSINGTON - December 4, 1951 - March 5, 2023

We look back at the life, times and music of the Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist who survived the band's plane crash in 1977, and also survived all the band's other founder members.