In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Classic Rock UK

• DAVE MASON
  Classic Rock’s David Sinclair looks back at the life and music of the singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer best known as a co-founder of Traffic.
• DEAR MR FANTASY
  STARS PAY TRIBUTE
• RIP
  Thank you… and good night.
• Andy Kershaw
  November 9, 1959 – April 16, 2026
• Greg Elmore
  September 4, 1946 – March 29, 2026
• Donn Landee
  February 26, 1947 – April 2026
• Moya Brennan
  August 4, 1952 – April 13, 2026
• Mick Devonport
  April 21, 1950 – April 12, 2026
• Alan Osmond
  June 22, 1949 – April 20, 2026
• Sabbath Demos To Be Released?
  Possible album of recordings from their early Earth days.
• Tongue-tied
  The Rolling Stones announce studio album number 25.
• Geoff Tate
  Almost 40 years on, the singer of Queensrÿche’s signature album releases his own third instalment.
• Jayler
  Big in Brazil, gigs with Deep Purple and Skynyrd, and their debut album isn’t even out yet.
• Not Any Woman From Tokyo
  Deep Purple fan-girl moment for Japan’s Prime Minister.
• Kiss Avatar Show To Launch In Vegas In 2028
  “This will be a true immersive experience,” says Paul Stanley.
• Failure
  After one member’s real near-death experience, the band have come alive again with album number seven.
• The Scratch
  Somewhere between The Dubliners and Metallica, they’ve found their “weird little sound”.
• Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
  A song about child abuse, with a ‘stolen’ hook-line that gifted Jagger and Richards writer credits, it brought them fame for the wrong reason: a live-on-TV ruck with presenter Phillip Schofield.
• Crown Lands
  The prog duo talk 19-minute songs, hanging out with Gollum, and why they’d rather be killed by robots than by zombies.
• ON A DARK DESERT HIGHWAY…
  Mexican reggae! Gunslinger duels! Chainsaws! Fifty years after it was recorded and released, Don Henley and producer Bill Szymczyk revisit the making of the Eagles’ 1976 masterpiece Hotel California.
• CHECKING IN
  A guided tour of the Hotel California, room by room.
• RELEASE THE BEAST
  Having almost called it quits a couple of years ago, All Them Witches cast an excellent spell with their new album House Of Mirrors – and there’s more magic brewing for the future.
• ALL THAT GLITTERS
  Shinedown’s charmed career belies a band that has rolled with the punches. Frontman Brent Smith opens up about the loss, addiction and rebirth that led to new album EI8HT.
• HEY! HO! LET’S GO!
  Few bands shook the UK music scene like NYC punks the Ramones did in 1976. Fewer still can claim they actually built one. Welcome to a revolution.
• ANARCHY IN THE UK
  How Ramones fired up Britain’s punks and its wider rock scene.
• CLEAR BLUE SKIES
  As US alt.rockers Blue October hit the UK to play their 2006 album Foiled in full, Anglophile frontman Justin Furstenfeld reflects on a period of runaway creativity – and personal train wrecks.
• PARK LIFE
  Songwriter, singer and keyboard player Bruce Hornsby could easily just rest on his laurels, but with his new album Indigo Park exploring memory and aging, he’s still forging ahead, adding fresh twists to his classic sound.
• EVER MEET LEMMY?
  Go-to songwriter, solo artist and former Argent guitarist/singer Russ Ballard hung out with The Beatles, is mates with Roger Daltrey and heard Elvis stories from Robert Plant. Rainbow, Kiss and others had hits with his songs. Ritchie Blackmore, Ozzy and more asked him to write some for them…
• The HOT LiST
  THE ESSENTIAL NEW TRACKS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH AND THE BANDS TO HAVE ON YOUR RADAR
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  Other new releases out this month.
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• Little Feat
  Despite musical excellence and fans in high places, they were perhaps a classic case of commercial underachievers.
• Foreigner
  There are no original members, but “the music was always the star of this band, and not personnel”.
• Warner E Hodges
  He and his band of other rock’n’roll lifers hit the UK twice this year.
• BEAT
  Four monster instrumentalists team up to play music from three killer King Crimson albums.
• The Soundtrack Of My Life
  Former Nightwish singer and versatile solo artist Tarja on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to her.