Plucked from obscurity at 22 to replace Mick Ronson as David Bowie’s sideman guitarist, Earl Slick ’s life was never going to be quite the same again. Nor was his lifestyle

From the sci-fi sonics of Hawkwind to playing his flute on the Great Pyramid Of Giza, Nik Turner has always tripped through musical boundaries

Late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts on the tragedy of Brian Jones, the glory of Led Zeppelin and the importance of a good tailor

The first single released after Brian Jones' death and the Rolling Stones' last UK No.1 hit, Honky Tonk Women was the song that ushered in the future for the band

Ronnie Wood shared a flat with Jimi Hendrix. He's also got stories about Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and just about everyone else

Rick Wakeman picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals why Led Zeppelin were the greatest live band ever

Glam-rock icon Suzi Quatro picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the hit song she turned down... just like Debbie Harry

Had it not been for guitarist Dick Taylor, the Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things might never have happened, and the British R&B scene of 60s would have been much greyer – and quieter

With some of Motor City’s iconic musicians on board for the thrill ride, Alice Cooper’s new album Detroit Stories is "an homage to the place to which we owe our careers"

Like everyone else, Keith Richards' life is currently dictated by you know what. And while he’s behind on his reading, he still found time to “sit around writing songs, basically, or parts of songs”

Every classic Rolling Stones album ranked from woeful worst to brilliant, bluesy best

The New Yorks Dolls' sleazoid, vampish veneer was fuelled by opiates and booze. Ultimately it cost them their career, and two of them their lives

From his ‘Excalibur moment’ with the guitar to The Yardbirds to (re)inventing hard rock with Led Zeppelin and beyond, Jimmy Page’s journey has seen good times, bad times and everything in between

Keyboard legend Rick Wakeman looks back on 10 classic songs that made the 70s great

The Small Faces were at the forefront of British psychedelia in the late 60s with their career-peaking album Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake, and all it took was one trip

The Stooges' Search And Destroy started out with James Williamson “goofing around making machine-gun sounds”, its combination of pounding rhythm and aggressive guitar a template for punk.

In 1973, prog-rock behemoth Emerson Lake & Palmer unleashed their ultimate album: Brain Salad Surgery, the record that marked the pinnacle of their creative extravagance

As the 60s dream turned to dust and po-faced singer-songwriters kept it real, a new generation of kids just wanted to rock: cue the rise of glitter and glam

After 44 years of smashing things up, The Damned have just released one of the finest recordings of their entire career

It was very nearly all over for the biggest band on the planet at the turn of the millennium – but with St Anger, Metallica's fortunes were about to change. Here's the story, from rehab-to-rebirth