The Classic Rock Podcast

In this months podcast we talk exclusively to keyboard legend Geoff Downes about the new Yes album and we here new and classic tracks from Yes and Asia.

Plus we look back at the 1984 reunion of Deep Purple hearing from the band in 84 and Metallica release the remastered edition of the "Black" album we hear from James Hetfield from 91 talking about the album.

And Iron Maiden.

Great show this month first our special guest is guitar king Bernie Marsden who has a great new blues album "Kings" we talk about this plus 40 years of "Come and Get It" the writing of "Here I Go Again" , Paice Ashton Lord and could there be a future collaboration with David Coverdale.

Iron Maiden are back with another epic album "Senjutsu" we hear tracks plus the thoughts of Bruce, Adrian and produc...

This moth we look back at 1971 when Peter Frampton decided to leave Humble Pie and was replaced by Clem Clempson he joins us to talk about a lifetime in music with Bakerloo, Colosseum, Humble Pie and collaborations with among others David Byron, Ken Hensley. Steve Howe is set to release a new album Homebrew 7 we have exclusive track from this, in the news Peter Lawton ex Uriah Heep passes away this month. 

Welcome to the latest show and this month Luke Morley joins me to talk about the new Thunder album, we have new music from Kansas who release a new live album on May 28th , Uriah Heep's Mick Box tells what his favourite Heep albums are, Asia have a new boxset coming out soon featuring all the re-union albums we relive some of their finest moments and new music from Cheap Trick and form Moody Blues John Lodge.

With music from Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Guns'N'Roses, Grateful Dead, Bob Seger, Zappa and the Beatles, Danny Zelisko joins us to talk about a life spent in promoting the legends of the genre being involved with everyone from the Allmans to Zappa, with whom he once had an audition booked its a tale of wild excess. His book is called "All Excess" and if you think you have seen read and heard it all before well you h...

This month Detroit legends Suzi Quatro and Alice Cooper and new music from Thunder. Suzi Quatro has a new album out she joins me to talks about a 55 year career in the music industry and a new album her best since the 70's called "The Devil in Me" we hear a selection of tracks from that and we hear from Alice Cooper about his new album "Detroit Stories" .

This month I am joined by Michael Schenker to talk about his new album with MSG "Immortal" and we look back on a 50 year career which has included many highlights. We talk about all those who tried to tempt him to join them from the Rolling Stones to Deep Purple and Ozzy Osbourne and what does a "Rock God" do when he isn't playing .

We conclude with a look at who Michael would love to collaborate with and would ...

Welcome to the last edition of the year, and this month new music from Alice Cooper and Blue Oyster Cult plus David Coverdale introduces us to "Love Songs" Brian Tatler talks about Metallica's versions of Diamond head Classics plus we hear "Lightening to the Nations" from the 2020 anniversary edition. Elsewhere Lemmy remembers what is was that got him interested in music as a kid and Slash and Lars describe what...

This month we celebrate Eddie Van Halen and Van Halen with David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar as well. AC/DC are back and Brian Jonson is a happy man and we talk to Jon Scott who was the man who discovered Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and made it his life's obsession as a promo man with MCA and ABC records to make sure they became the rock legends they did indeed became. He went on to become one of Tom's great friends.

This month Rolling Stones. Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, the 50th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath , Stackridge, Slade ,

Buddy Guy, BB KIng and author Aiden Prewett who has just written a book called "Our Jimi" which is a collection of interviews with those who were closest to Jimi including long time girlfriend Kathy Etchingham and legendary producer Eddie Kramer .

this month we pay a few tributes firstly Pete Way of UFO who passed away august 14th, also legendary producer Martin Birch we look back at his career and hear from him and Steve Harris, Deep Purple release "Whoosh" we'll have words from Gillan and Paice on the album and its the 40th anniversary of "Monsters of Rock" we look back at the day and hear some classic Rainbow recorded live on the day.

Welcome back this month we look at Rock musics finest moments at the movies the 100 greatest live albums are there any surprises in this list? 

the press review looks at "Classic Rock's" 100 greatest songs of the century we have the tracks of the month including Rolling Stones never before heard tracks and more from Deep Purple's new album "Whoosh" 

A Special edition of the Classic Rock podcast this week featuring Status Quo's charismatic bassist John 'Rhino" Edwards who talks about his musical life, Quo and latest album "Backbone" which saw the band return with their highest chart placing since 1982, we will hear a few of his favourite pieces of music from Free and The Move and of course a smattering of Quo as well

In a packed program this month we begin celebrating Deep Purple In Rock at 50 hearing from Jon Lord, plus we come up to date with Whoosh and hear from Roger Glover. Genesis are back we hear Phil Collins from the archive talking about Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett's departure then its Dennis DeYoung on his new album plus Styx and the press review plus a great tribute to Little Richard.