Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant, Ronnie James Dio, Stevie Nicks, Bon Scott. Here are the 15 greatest rock singers of the '70s, ...

Black Sabbath didn’t just influence heavy metal. Most fans would say they invented it, the moment Tony Iommi’s crushing riffs met Ozzy Osbourne’s wail on their 1970 debut album. More than 50 years ...

The ’80s were rock’s loudest, biggest-haired, most gloriously over-the-top decade. MTV launched in 1981 and turned bands into superstars almost overnight, stadium tours got bigger every year, and the ...

Replacing a band’s singer is usually where the story ends. Fans revolt, the new guy gets booed, and the band fades away. Every so often, though, the replacement turns out to be the best thing that ...

Every rock musician dreams of writing a hit. Then the hit arrives, and they have to play it every night for the rest of their lives. Some of the biggest songs in rock history were written or sung by ...

The 1970s were the decade the drummer stopped being the guy at the back. Rock got louder, longer and more ambitious, and the people behind the kit became stars in their own right, with 20-minute solos ...

Singers get the spotlight, guitarists get the solos and drummers get the wild stories. Bassists usually get the blame. When a band starts to come apart, the person holding down the low end is often ...

In heavy metal, breakups are as legendary as the music. Singers get fired, guitarists storm out, and lawsuits fly. Then, every so often, the person who got kicked out goes on to sell more records than ...

Overrated doesn’t mean bad. Every band on this list has sold millions of records, packed arenas and built a fan base most musicians would kill for. That’s exactly the point: when a band gets this big, ...