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In 1968, Graham moved his San Francisco operation to a new site, dubbing it Fillmore West, and also opened Fillmore East in New York’s East Village (a seated venue, unlike the San Francisco Fillmores). Their stature as the go-to rock halls only grew, and by the time Graham closed the two venues in 1971, many artists had chosen to record live albums at the various Fillmores, confident that that they played some of their best gigs in those spaces. These 10 albums were chosen by Classic Rock Magazine as the best of all time.

The albums aren’t ranked. Instead, Best Classic Bands listed them by artist name in reverse alphabetical order. You’ll see why…

Had it not been for the bands who established the genre's guiding principles, metal would sound very different today.

From Mudhoney to Mother Love Bone and beyond — the finest releases from the maladjusted new breed that remade rock

The 50 Best Live Albums Ever as voted by readers of Classic Rock Magazine.

We looked back at hundreds of albums released in 1966 and whittled the list down to the 40 that we think represent the cream of the year’s crop. Many of these titles remain cornerstones of any essential classic rock record collection, sounding as fresh now as when we first removed the vinyl from the shrink-wrapped album jacket.

It was an exciting year for rock—so much of what we listened to during that year still reverberates today, or at the very least still sounds vibrant.

Some of the greatest records of all time were released in 1969. Take a look at all the great albums and events from 1969.

Many of these titles remain cornerstones of any essential classic rock record collection,

Several of the bands that would come to define classic rock were just beginning to put down solid foundations—some holdovers from the ’60s (Pink Floyd, the Stones, the Who, the Doors, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Sly), others brand new new to us (Allmans, Sabbath, Yes, Alice Cooper).

From the moment they exploded from the sweaty, smoke-filled clubs of London’s visceral early sixties’ rhythm’n’blues scene, the Stones defined a hitherto unprecedented rebel sensibility that’s since become accepted as an essential ingredient of all subsequent rock.

In honour of metal's greatest decade, Metal Hammer compiled ten landmark tracks from every single year of the 1980s to create the ultimate era-defining playlist