Welcome at Classic Rock UK Magazine Issue 313, May 2023

These days, the release of new Metallica music to the world is A. Very. Big. Deal. To share a little ‘inside baseball’ story, just getting our writer to hear 72 Seasons ahead of our cover interview involved planes, trains and automobiles.
And a surreptitious meeting. Probably under the cover of darkness… It was worth the wait, though, as Lars, Kirk and Rob spilled the beans on the state of the Metalli-nation in 2023.
This month we also collar the inestimable and unstoppable Ian Hunter for the Classic Rock Interview (p38); spent some time at Abbey Road Studios with Def Leppard while they were working on their orchestral album (p56); talk to a cast of thousands (well, almost) to tell the 50-years-andcounting tale of Kansas (p62); chat to Ian Anderson about the end of the world and other things (p48); pay tribute to the late, great Gary Rossington, the last original member of Lynyrd Skynrd, who sadly passed away shortly before we went to press (p8).
And there’s much, much more.
Until next month…

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