THE CLASSIC Rock INTERVIEW BILL WYMAN
WW2 evacuee, RAF airman, Rolling Stone, hit solo artist, bandleader, author, restaurateur, archaeologist, cricketer… Even just his time in The Greatest Rock’N’Roll Band In The World is storied, but there’s been much, much more to his life than that.

ALL ABOUT BEING LOUD
In an exclusive extract from his Fast Eddie biography Make My Day, long-time Motörhead associate Kris Needs looks back at the making of their game-changing Overkill album and the subsequent killing-it UK tour.

THROUGH THICK AND THIN
In 1976, Thin Lizzy were touring Jailbreak in the US and were breaking big. Then disaster struck. Band manager Chris O’Donnell details the roller-coaster year in which they were cruelly robbed of their American dream.

JON ANDERSON
Fronting Yes he was one of the architects of prog rock, and now he fronts his own band. But that’s only part of his wondrous story. He was a decent footballer as a kid, believes in elves and fairies… Let him tell the rest. It really has been, he’ll tell you, a wonderful life.

LEARNING TO FLY
With their label ready to drop them after a so-so first album, Aerosmith clung on, dreamed on, accepted some tough demands, Joe Perry tells us, and recorded a second that gave them lift-off: Get Your Wings.

PERMISSION TO LAND
Having permanently grounded UFO, the band he’s led and fronted for more than 50 years, Phil Mogg looks back over a career that, had it been suggested as a film idea, would likely have been rejected as being too unbelievable, and forward to his new project Moggs Motel.