Britain’s biggest rock export defined the ’80s and recorded two of the era’s biggest albums in ‘Pyromania’ and ‘Hysteria’. To celebrate the Sheffield band’s outstanding achievements Rock Candy Mag talks to frontman Joe Elliott and guitarists Phil Collen and Viv Campbell over a mammoth 18 pages.
They weren’t glam and they weren’t grunge, but in the ’80s and ’90s Sacramento rockers Tesla still managed to shift bucketloads of bluesy rock’n’roll albums. How on earth did they manage to pull off that neatest of tricks? Dave Reynolds talks to founder members guitarist Frank Hannon and bassist Brian Wheat to find out…