Rock 'n' Roll Renegade was a landmark album when it was released in 1988, thanks to Mumbai's Rock Machine, who planted their flag in a genre that had been a Western obsession for decades. Taking cues from bluesy, barroom rockers like Thin Lizzy and Deep Purple, the record blazes with Mahesh Tinaikar's guitar solos—especially notable in "Top of the Rock", a crunching, fist-pumping anthem that tore across the subcontinent. Rock Machine would later become Indus Creed, but they'll always be known as renegades.
