In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Classic Rock UK

• FIVE DAY RAIN
  Five Day Rain, acetate-only album, 1970. £4,000.
• The Waterboys
  A song whose key line its writer Mike Scott says “floated into my mind as if by magic”, it’s still The Waterboys’ signature track and a magic moment live, and has inspired many covers.
• Kris Barras
  The blues-rocker on getting heavier, top advice from Billy Gibbons, and being a “ Poundshop version” of Richie Kotzen.
• DIGGING DEEP
  With Deep Purple’s original plans for their sixth album having literally gone up in smoke, Machine Head was a triumph snatched from the jaws of disaster. Plus: band members and other rock stars talk about their favourite Purple patches.
• SHERYL CROW
  Artist. Activist. Grammy winner. Superstar. Cancer survivor… As she airs her most socially charged songs yet on twelfth album Evolution, she looks back on the battles, triumphs, hardships, hopes and achievements that mark out her winding road.
• BAD BAYS RUNNING WILD
  With two members “smashed after touring”, in early 1983 the Scorpions‘ career was wobbling. Then the following year’s Love At First Sting album turned them into global superstars.
• LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
  Continuing after the death of their frontman was an emotional struggle, but with their first album without him Big Big Train have something he would have been proud of.
• ON TARGET
  Their debut album Taking On The World was a killer. After that, while circumstances have conspired to see them shoot wide occasionally, Gun’s aim has been true, and with new album Hombres they’ve hit the bullseye again.
• SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE
  Having broken through with 2019’s This Land, with his new album Gary Clark Jr. has thrown off the labels and delivered a musically diverse record while still hitting hard with social commentary.
• The HOT LiST
  THE ESSENTIAL NEW ROCK TRACK YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH AND THE BANDS TO HAVE ON YOUR RADAR
• Pearl Jam
  There’s vim and vigour aplenty from the Seattle survivors on album number 12.
• Gary Clark Jr
  A career high from the Texan electric blues multi-instrumentalist.
• Liam Gallagher John Squire
  First fruits of the two-man collaboration, and hugely enjoyable.
• BEST OF THE REST
  Other new releases out this month.
• Deep Purple
  Three-CD reissue adds remixes, Montreux and BBC live sets, audio fairy dust and more.
• Manic Street Preachers
  The Manics’ least popular album makes a worthy return.
• BEST OF THE REST
  Other reissues out this month.
• Revolución To Roxy
  From peripatetic youth to art-rock maestro: memoirs of a Mr. Nice Guy.
• Peter Green
  Unequalled as a British-blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, he left behind a body of work studded with guitar-playing brilliance.
• Jethro Tull
  The prog veterans play 10 UK shows, with Ian Anderson hitting the rails rather than the road.
• New Model Army
  The Northern powerhouse play shows in April and May.
• Feeder
  Newport post-grunge noiseniks celebrate 30 years by throwing a fuss-free party.
• The Soundtrack Of My Life
  Mammoth WVH guitarist/vocalist Wolfgang Van Halen on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.