The Classic Rock Podcast

Welcome to a celebration of 1980 its all about the music and the interviews this month and you will hear not only great music but some interviews from the archive from, Dio and Sabbath, Judas Priest, Joe Elliot Def Leppard, David Coverdale Whitesnake, Bruce Dickinson on Samson , Steve Harris and Paul Di'Anno on Iron Maiden, Kim McAuliffe GirlSchool enjoy stepping back in history to a memorable year.

Welcome to the first of 2020 and a big show , we have all the usual features, the news the press reviews etc the main feature is on 1970 and the birth of Heavy Metal as Sabbath emerged as did classic output from , Purple, Zeppelin, Free, CCR, Uriah Heep we will here archive interviews as well from, Geezer Butler, Gillan, John Lord, Free, David Byron and Robert Plant.

Another big show this month stuffed full of great Classic Rock , we open by celebrating a 40th anniversary of "Spirit of Radio" then we head off  in search of the great super groups of our time including interviews with Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers of "The Firm" we hear from Carmine Appice on Jeff Beck and we have those Damn Yankees as well as the press reviews and a look at some of the month's news and we close ...

Another bumper podcast with all sorts of features, Jimmy Page had the "Greatest Riff of all time " bestowed from a vote a while back this archive interview captures his reaction, Zeppelin went to Iceland back in 1970 as part of a cultural exchange Robert Plant was interviewed whilst there and the music industry was being looked into in the USA back in 72 this archive report actually had the reporter on the Zeppelin plane.

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Welcome to the September "Classic Rock Podcast" which is a special extended show this month coming up we hear from Ginger Baker from prior to the last Cream show in 69, this year is the 49th anniversary of the death of Jimmy Hendrix we listen back to his final interview just a week before his death. Brian Johnson teases his new season of "Life on the road"  with Robert Plant. We listen to new music from the Who and ...

Welcome to the latest edition of The Classic Rock Podcast and in this months show as Nick Mason prepared to receive his "Prog God" award we hear from a very young Pink Floyd with Barret, Mason, Waters and Wright plus the months news round up and press review, we have a special feature on the 50th anniversary of Woodstock and we celebrate the return of Status Quo on the eve of their new album release "Backbone" we wi...

Welcome to the summer edition of the Classic Rock Podcast, this month Highway to Hell celebrates its 40th year and Yes released their debut album 50 years ago this july we hear an archive interview from them and this moth in 1979 saw Rainbow release Down to Earth, Ritchie Blackmore Graham Bonnet and the legendary drummer Cozy Powell all remember a landmark period in the bands history.

Welcome along to the June edition of the Classic Rock podcast, we hear from Slash about the early days of Guns'n'Roses plus Whitesnake are back with a rollicking good album Flesh and Blood we have a track from that and Sammy Hagar is back in the big time with The Circle and we have music from his top 5 album "Space Between" . 

Plus we have lots of news from the last month and we review all the music press as well .

Well its the anniversary show this week as we celebrate a few notable moments in rock history beginning with a celebration of the 74th birthday of one of the finest players these shores have produced, Ritchie Blackmore and we hear Lemmy recount one of the many memorable tales of high jinx involving RB as well as the man himself describing what he's all about.

Classic interview is a real gem Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham talking ...

If the 1960's were a whirlwind the 1970's were a hurricane as when success hit it elevated Randy Bachman and the band BTO to one of the biggest bands in the world in 4 years they released 5 albums that went gold, 18 singles including what remains Sony musics most licensed track in their history "takin' care of business" and of course "you ain't seen nothin yet".

Here then is a first hand recollection...

This month we have part 1 of a 2 part special where we talk to a Classic Rock Legend whose career has spanned 6 decades.

Randy Bachman has written and played on some of the genres most instantly recognisable songs from the Guess Who's first number one "Shakin all over" to "American Woman" before creating a brand new sound that accompanied him with Bachman Turner Overdrive on their journey to becoming one of the ...

This month there is a bit of a Van Halen feel, after the months news round up we'll hear from Dave Lee Roth on where is all began for him and the band, also a few anecdotes on the 41st anniversary of Van Halen 1 and we hear from Sammy Hagar and Roth on what happened behind the scenes on the Sam and Dave tour of 2002.Plus Whitesnake are back with  a tune with a vintage 80's feel to it and we round up whats what in the press ...

Welcome to the first edition of 2019 in which we celebrate all things AOR looking at the "Classic Rock" Mag's Top 50 AOR albums of all time plenty to debate in that list as well, Classic Interviews this month include Tom Scholz of Boston talking about how low his expectations were after releasing the first Boston album and Toto talk about Africa and Rosanna, as well as all that the months most interesting news stories a...