One of the world's largest classic rock interview archives, from ACDC to ZZ Top, by award-winning radio personality Redbeard.

Mark Knopfler explains why he retired the Dire Straits franchise after 1991’s On Every Street but not from making new music, ...

One of the world's largest classic rock interview archives, from ACDC to ZZ Top, by award-winning radio personality Redbeard.

Genesis was already a veteran English band by the time they released Abacab in September 1981. The progressive trio’s eleventh (!) studio album, Abacab was the result of another significant personnel ...

When revisiting the Rush April 1984 release Grace Under Pressure, I had to double-check the math. Could Grace Under Pressure, in my mind that mid-period transitional album for the Toronto-based trio, ...

 The third album by New Jersey band Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet released in August 1986, was such a phenomenon on so many different levels forty years ago. So we entreated band singing namesake Jon ...

“You know, I think that a lot of Rush fans always wanted to hear us play like we used to play, if I can use that phrase,” Rush guitarist/co-writer Alex Lifeson admitted to me a couple of years after ...

Nine albums’ worth of modest sales and little songwriting royalties required Raitt to tour long and hard throughout the Seventies and deep into the Eighties just to keep new strings on her National ...

With the Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band release Against the Wind, I can easily recall the moment when I first realized that, at that time, Bob Seger had become the biggest American rock star. It ...

In September 1976, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Atlanta’s venerable Fox Theater each needed a minor miracle. Performing over three hundred shows … More ...

“It started trying to be an album based on witchcraft,” Alan Parsons confessed to me about Pyramid, the highly anticipated third album by the Alan Parsons Project, released in June 1978. “All areas of ...