This month’s contributors

SIMON HARPER

Making his Classic Rock debut this month is Simon Harper, founder of Clash magazine and lifelong Beatles fan. Since interviewing Paul McCartney for a Clash cover story in 2007, Simon has since worked on a number of projects with the ex-Beatle, and needed no convincing to write this month’s golden-anniversary appreciation of his favourite Macca album, Ram (p26).

DAVE LING

As usual, we managed to keep

CR’s news editor busy this issue. Not only did he embark on a deep dive into Iron Maiden’s debut album, with input from Paul Di’Anno and Derek Stratton (page 52), he also found time to have a chat with Kiss’s Paul Stanley about his brand new solo album (page 22). Oh, and Dave also figured out how he’s going to spend all his cash on new Record Store Day releases (p10).

JO KENDALL

A lover of moustaches, pipes and tricky time signatures, Prog magazine’s associate editor and Classic Rock contributor Jo had a chance to wax (pun absolutely intended) lyrical with Colleen Murphy about the latter’s Classic Album Sundays events (page 66). She also found time to bask in some experimental rock inspired by Macca’s second solo album (page 36).