Classic Rock Issue 266 (September 2019)

In this issue's cover feature, 50 years on we look at the making of Abbey Road. For the band it wasn't a time of love, peace and understanding, but they came away with arguably the greatest of The Beatles' albums. In other features we talk to Biff Byford. He might have spent his life working as a coal miner. Instead he formed Saxon, one of Britain's great heavy metal bands. Read his rags-to-riches story in the Classic Rock Interview. We collar Francis Rossi and Bob Young, once the 'fifth member' of Quo, to talk about early days, reunions, the 'no Parfitt, no Quo' debate and more. After a change of scene, a change of personnel and a challenging couple of years, Crobot are back in business with their heaviest record yet. "He was an immortal badass," Tom Petty's daughter says of her late dad. To the rest of the world he was a gifted songwriter, singer and performer who led the greatest rock'n'roll band to come out of America. We talk to Jesse Malin about his gorgeous new album, for which