Mark Blake

In hock to the Mob, fuelled by booze and cocaine, and with a roster that ran from Kiss to Donna Summer, Casablanca Records was the embodiment of 70s record label excess

Put Jimmy Page and Robert Plant in a room with a bunch of Moroccan musicians and what do you get? A glorious, unledded update of Led Zeppelin’s legacy, that’s what

Often maligned and occasionally magnificent, sometimes supergroups really do make albums as good as the sum of their parts - here are 10 of the best

Clocking in at just over two minutes, Stone Cold Crazy announced Queen to the world (in a town hall in 1970) but wasn’t recorded until their third album

How Led Zeppelin borrowed Mick Jagger's house to make Houses Of The Holy, the album that would finally gain them respect from the critics... before it all went dark

How Freddie Mercury's teeth can be blamed for the Sex Pistols, and nine other strange Freddie facts

In 1992, Malcolm Young sat down to look back over AC/DC’s career - and have a sly dig at Robert Plant and Kurt Cobain

The Tubes shocked and rocked in equal measure – here the most theatrical band of the 80s talk about breaking boundaries, assless chaps, and balancing art with outrage

Keith Moon's daughter Mandy Moon talks about growing up with one of rock's favourite wild men and foremost drummers

Misplaced Childhood is the album that turned Marillion into bona fide rock stars. It’s also the record that broke the group

Prog picks 20 of the most obscure prog albums that you might have nestled at the back of your collection. Some that could even unearth you a small fortune

The Marillion guitarist opens up in The Prog Interview

Peter Gabriel's exit could have finished Genesis. Instead Phil Collins stepped into the limelight and they delivered a prog classic in A Trick Of The Tail

How the Electric Light Orchestra conquered the world

In 1967 The Who toured the USA for the first time. Cue thrills, spills, cops, smashed guitars, exploding toilets and the birth of the legend that is Keith Moon...

Fawned over and derided in equal measure, Steely Dan are a rock’n’roll group that aren’t really a group and don’t really like rock’n’roll, but have sold 50 million records to people who do...

The Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery talks soundtracks, photography, his relationship with Fish and keeping your sanity in the music business…

Queen's fourth album was one of most expensive ever assembled, a labour of love that went on to sell over six million copies. That hasn't stopped us from rearranging it

Gallery: rare pictures of the great Freddie Mercury, a shameless peacock onstage, shy and insecure offstage

Part of Zeppelin's legacy has been Page's overhaul of outtakes and remastering of their catalogue, it's helped redefine their place in history, here he reflects on the final piece: Coda

The former Bon Jovi man on playing with them again, being a “blues geek” and having a studio… in his kitchen

Former Bon Jovi string wrangler and high-flying solo act Richie Sambora picks five of the best guitar albums, and there's a strong blues vein pumping throughout...

The singer and songwriter on Yes, God, good drugs and bad times

One band. One record store. £50. What could possibly go wrong?

In July 1986, Queen stopped bickering long enough become the first band to play a stadium show in the communist Eastern Bloc. Cue armed soldiers and genital-related insults…