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“Our peers – Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Green Day – see the honesty and they get it. A lot of people never will, but that’s not important”: These legendary horror-punk icons recorded their classic debut album in 1978. It took 18 years for it to be released

The Misfits’ debut album Static Age is one of the rock’s great debut albums – but it nearly didn’t come out

“He asked, ‘Who owns the rights to your albums?’ I was like, ‘We should.’ He said, ‘How about I buy them for you?’” It took nearly 50 years for Happy The Man to hear their music the way they’d intended

Tripped up by record company machinations, the American pioneers – who nearly became Peter Gabriel’s backing band – didn’t think their first two records would ever sound like they had in the studio

“Gram had this idea of ‘Cosmic American Music’. Music had no rules back then. There was so much freedom”: The trailblazing ’60s country-rock band who pioneered a whole new sound – only for the Eagles to steal their thunder

Splintering off from The Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers burnt brightly on two iconic albums

“Spielberg requested a meeting. They’d written a movie and decided their hero’s favourite band would have been Huey Lewis & The News”: How a Hollywood legend and a time-travelling teenager turned a veteran rocker into an unlikely 80s superstar

Huey Lewis & The News scored a massive hit with The Power Of Love thanks to Back To The Future

5 insanely obscure 1980s rock albums that are a perfect 10/10

From cult pomp rock to Metallica-approved hair metal, these are five connoisseur-approved albums everybody should know about