Classic Rock

His death could have ended the band. Instead, it launched its next era.

He celebrates "purity and allegiance" of genre fans but recalls the ones who spent nights "taking the piss" out of him.

We keep track of all the rock and metal releases so you don't have to.

"I told them I'd write them a hit single," he later said, "and I did."

Nick Mason has called groundbreaking show the "beginning of the concept we spent the next 20-odd years doing."

Diving deeply into one of rock's greatest albums.

Inspiration for the classic song came from an unlikely place.

Rockers broke attendance record for single-act indoor concert.

Issues included costs, the sound and the fragile creative partnership between Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne.

Dashed off verses from 1962 later became an accidental anthem for social justice.