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It was supposed to be just another Pink Floyd extravaganza. Nobody expected blackmail and a scandal that forced a city's mayor to resign

With the band falling apart, The Beatles set to work on a new album. More than 50 years after its release, this is the fractious story of Let It Be

In August 1970, Elton John played his first US gig at the 300-capacity Troubadour club in Los Angeles. That one show would launch his career into the stratosphere

It was meant to be as monumental as Woodstock, but 1972’s Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival went the other way: bands cancelling, out-of-control drug abuse, sanitation problems and death

On this day in 1967, Keith Moon celebrated his 21st birthday by taking a Rolls Royce for a swim – or did he? Eyewitnesses explain what they saw – or think they saw...

Jimi Hendrix’s debut album, Are You Experienced, was pieced together in London in between dazzling live gigs that left the competition reeling. But the end results are still a revelation

The combination of drugs, guns and a troubled wife meant things wouldn’t end well for the Mountain bassist. Here, insiders and eye-witnesses remember his murder trial

Rumours of the David Bowie’s demise proved to be premature when he kicked off 2013 with the shock release of a new album, The Next Day, recorded in complete secrecy

From forcing businessmen to wear clown suits, to introducing a Board Of Bribery, Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra's vision for San Francisco was both “a great prank” and barbed social commentary

Studio innovations, sonic trickery, songwriting genius and everything including the kitchen sink (well, a bathtub). This is how The Beatles made Revolver and revolutionised rock

Among the many stars of London’s mid-60s blues scene, one guy outshone and outplayed them all – Peter Green. Here, we tell the story of how Fleetwood Mac were born

Thirty years on from powering their way into Northern Ireland’s indie rock scene, Therapy? have no intention of mellowing into middle age

Now revered as a linchpin moment in the history of the blues, Howlin’ Wolf’s 1970 London Sessions were recorded with Eric Clapton and various Stones and Beatles. This is the story, told by those who were there

Moscow at the height of East-West tensions was a grim, alien city. What better place for fading British rockers Uriah Heep to raise their profile? Cue stony-faced KGB, guns, girls and gallons of vodka

When some of the most talented stars of the era met in a small New York club, the on-stage jamming soon turned into a full-on, bottle-breaking brawl between Jimi, Jim and Janis

Bribery. Levitation. Exorcisms. Demons. It's all in a days work for Killing Joke as they record inside the Great Pyramid

With Brian Jones falling apart on set, the Rock And Roll Circus went so badly for the Rolling Stones that the film wasn’t released until 28 years later

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

As big as Live Aid, with an unfeasibly broad bill of rock, pop and showbiz stars, the Wembley fest commemorated Queen’s late flamboyant frontman and made a little history of its own

Hear ’n Aid saw the hard-rock community muscling in on the charity single bandwagon. Cue a heavyweight cast, guitar battles and big hair contests

From London's east end to some of the biggest stages in the world, Iron Maiden's story started with a three track demo and a sweaty pub gig decked out like an old Western movie...

When Jimi Hendrix arrived in London in 1966 he blew the minds of Clapton, Beck and Page. They'd soon follow his lead and develop an explosive new form of electric blues

The strange theft of Gram Parson’s corpse – told by the people who were there

“The glass went straight through my fingers then sliced down and cut the tendons and nerves. It cut an artery as well...”

Eat your heart out, Bob Geldof – Hear ’n Aid saw the hard-rock community muscling in on the charity single bandwagon. Cue a heavyweight cast, guitar battles and big hair contests