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From the Classic Rock archive: March 2005

Cover of March 2005 issue.

• Page 3
• »  YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS...
• »  BON SCOTT – NICE ONE!
• »  BON SCOTT – WHAT NONSENSE!
• »  A DENTIST WRITES...
• »  DEF LEPPARD VS CELINE DION Joe Elliot is actually wrong in Classic Rock issue...
• »  TO PUNK, OR NOT TO PUNK...
• Page 4
• »  UH-OH. HERE COMES A MUSICIAN...
• Page 5
• »  The show must go on
• Page 6
• »  Crowes to fly again
• »  “It’s all about greed”
• Page 7
• »  SLEEVENOTES THE INSIDE STORY OF A CLASSIC ALBUM COVER
• Page 8
• »  Sex type thing
• »  Castles made of sand
• Page 9
• »  The next big things, as predicted by our inside man.
• »  Strawberry Fields not forever
• »  Skin ’em up!
• Page 10
• »  Joe in the doc’
• »  Zep get a Grammy, finally!
• »  What’s happenin’ in the world of melodic AIN MAKE THEIR LONG- awaited return...
• Page 11
• »  RIFFS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD ‘Whatever You Want’ / STATUS QUO (1979)
• »  Born to be Wylde
• »  A panoramic view over the world of prog rock.
• Page 13
• »  Tsunami aid
• Page 14
• »  HURRICANE PARTY
• »  ALL THE GOSSIP THAT’S FIT TO PRINT, AND SOME THAT ISN’T AND NOW, THE END IS...
• Page 15
• »  BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS
• Page 16
• »  Straight talking
• »  “We’re no cheats!”
• Page 17
• »  WHO’S DOING WHAT, WHERE THEY’RE DOING IT, AND WHEN...
• »  DON’T QUOTE ME!
• Page 18
• »  Ex-Venom guitarist Mantas is back with his own unique brand of ‘cold-hearted...
• Page 19
• »  Random rock’n’roll recollections
• Page 21
• »  Are Living Loud just another bunch of greying rockers after a fast buck, or...
• Page 26
• »  Tokyo Dragons
• Page 27
• »  Head Automatica
• Page 28
• »  Rilo Kiley
• Page 30
• »  JTUST FOR A FLEETING SECOND, IT’S THE OLD OZZY OSBOURNE ALL
• Page 35
• »  With last year’s ‘One Day Remains’ debut album, Alter Bridge have almost...
• Page 39
• »  Pictures of Matchstick Men
• Page 45
• »  Described in their early days as The Ramones meets The Runaways, they were...
• Page 47
• »  IT’S GENUINELY AMAZING TO REALISE THAT THE FOO FIGHTERS
• Page 49
• »  SEVENTH HEAVEN
• Page 51
• »  Few bands have been so badly burned by the record company as Thunder.
• Page 53
• »  WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE CHILIS’ CHAD SMITH AND SABBATH’S TONY IOMMI, 2005...
• Page 56
• »  Are Porcupine Tree the most important band you’ve never heard of? Meet the...
• Page 58
• »  The Japan connection.
• Page 61
• »  DRUGS, RECORD, TOUR, DRUGS, RECORD, TOUR... THAT’S HOW 8Os ALTERNATIVE...
• Page 65
• »  Bass player Pete Way and vocalist Fin Muir have re-formed boozy 80s rockers...
• Page 66
• »  How Waysted’s Fin got to sing the theme to TV’s The Office.
• Page 69
• »  Loch up your doubters
• »  ‘It’s so totally Priest’ KK Downing gets tanked up about the band’s new album.
• Page 71
• »  Chris Robinson & New Earth Mud‘This Magnificent Distance’
• »  The Muffs ‘Really, Really Happy’ (Subterfuge)
• »  The Deadbeats ‘Long Hard Nights’
• »  Widespread Panic
• »  Tishamingo
• »  Roger Miret & The Disasters
• »  Candye Kane
• Page 72
• »  Bend me, shake me
• Page 73
• »  Thunder stormer
• Page 74
• »  Josh Rouse
• »  Pig Iron
• »  Dirtbombs/ King Khan
• »  The Ladder
• »  Glenn Hughes
• »  Kino
• »  Hubert Sumlin ‘About Them Shoes’ (Ryko/Tone Cool/Artemis Records) A towering...
• Page 75
• »  Mercury Rev
• »  Trivium ‘Ascendancy’
• »  Electric Six
• »  Lordi
• »  The Lizards
• »  Locus Of Control ‘To A Bloody War Or A Sickly Season’ (Alpha Engineering)...
• »  Shy
• Page 76
• »  A Mars a day...
• Page 77
• »  Blood Farmers ‘Permanent Brain Damage’ (Leaf Hound Records) The Blood...
• »  The Doits
• »  Richard Barbieri ‘Things Buried’
• »  RPWL ‘World Through My Eyes’ (Tempus Fugit/Inside Out) Three years ago RPWL’s...
• »  Various
• »  Blues Traveler
• »  The Dwarves
• Page 78
• »  Angra
• »  Mark Mallman
• »  Steve Diggle
• »  Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
• »  Adrian Belew
• »  Tommy Funderburk
• »  The Toy Dolls
• Page 79
• »  Two Cow Garage ‘The Wall Against Our Back’
• »  Cheese
• »  The Beat Up ‘Black Rays Defence’ (Fantastic Plastic) If there’s one thing...
• »  Open Hand
• »  Tom Russell ‘Charles Bukowski And A Ballad For Gone America’ (Hightone)
• »  And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead ‘Worlds Apart’
• »  The Ga*Ga*s ‘Tonight The Midway’ (Sanctuary)
• Page 80
• »  Fozzy
• »  Chris Field
• »  Frantic Bleep
• »  Terry Bozzio
• »  The Presidents Of The United States Of America ‘Love Everybody’
• »  Deke Leonard ‘Freedom & Chains’ (Angel Air) Brimming with the endearing...
• »  John Martyn
• Page 81
• »  Honey monsters
• Page 82
• »  From wig-wam to wham-bam
• Page 83
• »  AC/DC
• »  Crown Of Thorns
• »  Walter Trout ‘Deep Trout’
• »  REM
• »  Phantom Planet ‘Phantom Planet’ (Sony/BMG)
• »  Blues Magoos
• »  Redbone
• Page 84
• »  Over and done
• Page 85
• »  Budgie
• »  Mountain ‘Nantucket Sleighride’ (Repertoire)
• »  David Bowie
• »  Marshmallow ‘Marshmallow’
• »  The B’zz
• »  Scorched Earth
• »  The Raspberries ‘The Raspberries’ ‘Fresh’
• Page 86
• »  Thorn again
• Page 87
• »  His generation
• Page 88
• »  Cradle Of Filth ‘Nymphetamine’
• »  Elliott Smith
• »  RTZ
• »  Buzzcocks
• »  Death In Vegas
• »  Rush
• »  The 13th Floor Elevators ‘Going Up: The Very Best Of’ (Charly)
• Page 89
• »  Unhappy Mondays
• Page 90
• »  An undervalued or
• Page 91
• »  Megadeth
• Page 93
• »  Look what you’ve created!
• Page 95
• »  David Bowie Love You Till Tuesday (Universal)
• »  Devo
• »  Bruce Springsteen In Concert: MTV Plugged (Columbia Music Video) Even Bruce...
• »  Hell raising
• »  Mitch Ryder At Rockpalast
• Page 96
• »  Crosby, Stills & Nash Long Time Coming (Warner Music Vision) As Graham Nash...
• »  Roadrage 2004
• »  Gary Moore & The Midnight Blues Band Live At Montreux 1990’ (Eagle Vision)...
• »  Mother’s Finest At Rockpalast
• »  Clapped out
• Page 97
• »  Greendale
• »  Keeping mum
• »  Nirvana – The
• »  Waiting For Kate Bush John Mendelssohn (Omnibus, £16.95) John Mendelssohn...
• »  Kraftwerk: Man Machine And Music Pascal Bussy (SFS, £7.99)
• Page 98
• »  A perfect shot
• Page 100
• »  The Greatest Show On Earth?
• Page 102
• »  Changing faces
• Page 103
• »  FM Tuners
• Page 104
• »  THEY DID IT SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO