Rob Hughes

The crowd at 1970’s Atomic Sunrise Festival in London wasn't much interested David Bowie’s new band Hype, with their lurex outfits and make-up, but one onlooker was: Marc Bolan

Taj Mahal headlined over Led Zeppelin and taught Keith Richards things he didn't know. The is his story: the story of a Rising Son

Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy talk about The Cult's new album Under The Midnight Sun, and their “simple vision to make guitar-oriented rock"

Bill Wyman dared to quit the band that Keith Richards said people only left “in a box”: he's also mates with Clapton and Page, and he's got some stories

We explore the prog credentials of Faroese artist Eivør Pálsdóttir, whose music career has encompassed avant-jazz, trip hop, chamber pop, throat singing and even impersonating Marilyn Monroe

Led Zeppelin wrote a song about him, Pink Floyd invited him to sing on another, but this is the very best of Roy Harper's own recorded work

It's A Shame About Ray turned Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando into alt.rock’s new god, but in typical rock’n’roll fashion, that’s when things started to go wrong

Eagles vocalist/bassist Timothy B. Schmit on the Eagles and seventh solo album Day By Day, made with little help from his famous friends

Finished off when a drunken Gibby Haynes staggered into the studio and babbled a load of nonsense, Ministry's Jesus Built My Hotrod became a big seller and a middle finger to the label

"She was very funny. And very naughty too. She taught me quite a lot, to be honest. She was very rude" - Steve Harley

UK pop prog duo Tears For Fears discuss their love of progressive music and how it informed The Tipping Point, their first new studio album for 18 years

Originally just another R&B band, through innovation the Moody Blues would create one of the sounds of the late 60s/early 70s

On Independence Day 1970, Jimi Hendrix played one of the greatest shows of his career, at the Atlanta International Pop Festival. It was also the end of an era

Before he became a soundtrack king, Vangelis made this cult classic that began as a celebration of late-60s freedom and ended with Salvador Dalí threatening to bomb cathedrals with hippos

With Cheap Trick inching towards their half-century, band guitarist and songwriter Rick Nielsen toasts the past, present and future in his own inimitable style

One of the great British singers and frontmen, Steve Marriott's catalogue with the Small Faces, Humble Pie and beyond is littered with classics

Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence wrote his album Oar in a psychiatric ward after threatening his bandmates with an axe. Years after his death, artists still acknowledge his influence

Singer-songwriter Rosalie Cunningham picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals why Stackridge might be better than Genesis

It’s still a staple of Deep Purple’s live sets, but the uber-catchy Hush was first a hit for American country-soul singer Billy Joe Royal

The late Holger Czukay discusses the importance of Can's groundbreaking second album Tago Mago

Mark Lanegan's best albums marked him out as one of rock’s great voices. Here are the very best, from the Screaming Trees to Queens Of The Stone Age and beyond, via an extraordinary solo career

For lovers of bluesy roots rock, Houndmouth's fourth album Good For You could well be what the title says