Many rock artists don't get popular until several years into their career; these artists became household names right from their start.

It seems like a studio album would be the obvious answer for the best-selling classic rock album, but it’s actually a ...

Change has always been the nucleus of any great music; to keep art interesting, it must always look forward while not ...

Uncut presents 100 startling bursts of glory that revealed rock’s major players and revolutionised ... Presley’s first record back in March 1956 and the recent debut of the Arctic Monkeys ...

But even some of the biggest bands in the world have had to wait for their moment of greatness — or at least massive mainstream success. Here are 25 of the best non-debut breakthrough albums.

Our list of the Best Hair Metal Album of Every Year From 1981 to 1991 proves that before it was relegated to the dustbin of history, hair metal — or glam metal, or pop-metal, or whatever the ...

Forget about spacious guitar effects or belabored overdubs to fill in the gaps. “dot dot dot,” the debut album from Little ...

Turned down by every major label, Dury was a 35-year-old pub-rock veteran by the time he was rescued by Stiff. Funny, cruel and bawdy, his debut showered old-fashioned music-hall wordplay with ...