50 years, 50 tracks: the Ultimate Heavy Metal Playlist By Geoff Barton, Malcolm Dome, Lee Dorrian, Ian Fortnam, Paul Henderson, Dave Ling, Sian Llewellyn, Scott Rowley, Jonathan Selzer, Henry Yates, Fraser Lewry As humanity celebrates 50 years of heavy metal, here’s half a century’s worth of pioneering heavy music, from the classics to the contemporary hard-hitters
MC5: How we wrote Kick Out The Jams By Ian Fortnam The title track of the band’s live debut album which captured the band at their most inspired and inspiring, it was the incendiary call to arms that originally ignited punk’s vital spark in 60s Detroit
How The Rolling Stones invented Britpop in 1964 By Ian Fortnam The Rolling Stones' debut album came out 55 years ago today. The sleeve alone changed everything
Roger Daltrey interview: my life with The Who By Ian Fortnam Roger Daltrey on The Who, Pete Townshend’s arrest, not having regrets and the secret of a successful marriage
10 Slade Songs That Prove They're Bigger Than Just Christmas By Ian Fortnam It may well be Chreeeeesssstttmaaaaaaasssssss, but there's far more to Slade than that...
The Beatles: White Album - Super Deluxe Edition review By Ian Fortnam The Beatles' White Album: celebrated, reimagined, reborn
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody - Original Soundtrack album review By Ian Fortnam The astonishing soundtrack to the long-awaited Queen & Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody goes under the spotlight
How The Beatles' White Album changed everything By Ian Fortnam The Beatles changed music forever with Sgt Pepper. But in 1968 they made an album that mapped out rock’s future – as they themselves were falling apart
Hawkwind - Road To Utopia album review By Ian Fortnam Hawkwind: Orchestrated? Or castrated? Debatable
Alice Cooper – A Paranormal Evening At The Olympia Paris album review By Ian Fortnam The Coop’s latest live album: more meat and potatoes than blood and gore
Paul Rodgers - Free Spirit album review By Ian Fortnam The definitive voice of British soul and blues, Paul Rodgers, free to do what he wants
"Jim Morrison’s a talentless bastard – and he’s dead" Thom Yorke's long lost interview By Ian Fortnam Back in 1992, fledgling music journalist Ian Fortnam interviewed neophyte rock type Thom Yorke for The Scene fanzine. The result? A fascinating early insight into one of today’s more reclusive musicmakers
Twilight Of The Mortals by Mont Sherar - review By Ian Fortnam Boxed volume of Killing Joke at work, rest and play
London Rock: The Unseen Archives by Alec Byrne - review By Ian Fortnam Vintage snapper’s priceless legacy curated
American Valhalla - dvd review By Ian Fortnam Unflinching cinematic record of rock’s process in the raw
Ringo Starr - Ringo album review By Ian Fortnam Remember fun? Before we all grew up it sounded like this
Billion $ Babies - First Ever Live Show: Flint 1977 album review By Ian Fortnam What the Coopers did next
Gwenno - Le Kov album review By Ian Fortnam Not yet rated Multilingual ex-Pipette’s electro-psych second
The Z - People Of The Mirror World album review By Ian Fortnam Not yet rated Tune in, turn on, freak out
The Osiris Club - The Wine-Dark Sea album review By Ian Fortnam Not yet rated Consolidating second from beaked brotherhood
Procol Harum - There’ll Still Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017 album review By Ian Fortnam Glorious collection from orchestral prog prime movers
Suzi Quatro: I haven’t seen many people walk my path, even after all these years By Ian Fortnam The only Penthouse centrefold ever to be allowed to keep her clothes on, Suzi Quatro was “a pin-up for the guys and a hero to the women”
The Yardbirds - Yardbirds ’68 album review By Ian Fortnam Plant-free proto-Zep. What wonders might have been, eh, readers?
XTC - Black Sea album review By Ian Fortnam Prog-pop, post-punk, art-rock hybrid receives a well-deserved expanded reappraisal
