(Credits: Far Out) Five of the tracks that fared well in the study were classic rock tunes. This is interesting in itself. Pop is the genre you most closely relate to catchiness, yet classic rock’s ...

Dave Ling was a co-founder of Classic Rock magazine. His words have appeared in a variety of music publications, including RAW, Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Prog, Rock Candy, Fireworks and Sounds. Dave’s ...

Polly is deputy editor at Classic Rock magazine, where she writes and commissions regular pieces and longer reads (including new band coverage), and has interviewed rock's biggest and newest names.

As the vocalist of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne is undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the history of rock music and is one of only a handful of people who can truly claim to have changed ...

Rock and roll was born in the 1950s as a more raucous, electrified form of the blues. In the 1960s, the genre was given more life. Still rudimentary in some ways, it grew over the era and then ...

Yet, my reading and life experience over time have created a slow process of realizing I barely exist in that history—that the so-called “progressive” history of New Hollywood and the rock ...