With glorious Afro-Latin rhythms and ill-advised collaborations, Carlos Santana’s 40-year career path needs to be negotiated with care. These are his best albums

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Woodstock made Ten Years After into world stars, but instead of capitalising on their new-found fame they lost the plot

As the 70s rock scene exploded, an increasingly out of touch music business lost its stranglehold on the music scene – here, we tell the story of how it happened

Classic Rock talks to Jimi Hendrix's friends, admirers and other musicians about his life and importance

One night round a camp-fire on a boating weekend in 1967, the Small Faces came up with an idea for the whimsical concept album that became a psychedelic classic

The best British Blues Rock albums: Direct from the Delta to Dartford and beyond, the Blues turned British rock on its head

From The Yardbirds and The Jeff Beck Group to jazz fusion and Stevie Wonder, the guitar legend looks back on his steller career

Updated! From essential classics to reputation-establishing standouts, these are the Pink Floyd albums you should buy... and one you shouldn't

Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band: the tune that made Mann a better career out of Springsteen in the 70s than Springsteen himself