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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

Written as a savage response to two journalists who said it was good that Keith Moon was dead, Pete Townshend's Jools And Jim stands as one of rock’s most hateful songs

Kinks man Dave Davies: He rubbed John Lennon up the wrong way, thought he’d killed his brother Ray, and would have loved a three-in-a-bed romp with Brian Jones and their shared girlfriend

With a perfectionist approach and drawing on classic 70s rock for inspiration, The War On Drugs is working out fine

Ministry’s Al Jourgensen has lost none of his fury at the world – and his Moral Hygiene album is a demand for us all to do better

John Lennon was always the radical one in The Beatles, but it wasn’t until the band broke up that his politics exploded. These are his 10 greatest rebel songs

Well-travelled guitarist Bernie Marsden picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, but remains secretive about the worst record he ever made

Back after burn-out and health issues, My Morning Jacket's first album in six years extols love, tolerance and compassion.

Guitarist, songwriter and producer Steven Van Zandt picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the greatest female singer of all time

Everybody's got to start somewhere, and some of our very best bands started slowly. Here's 10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually great

With Manic Street Preachers having have undergone their fair share of emotional upheaval recently, it’s little wonder new album The Ultra Vivid Lament has its melancholic side

As Screamadelica turns 30, we look back at how self-belief, speed, dance music and the best producer the Stones ever had combined to make Primal Scream’s truly progressive and psychedelic masterpiece

He’s collaborated with Crazy Horse, Ringo Starr and even auditioned for Brookside, but now Icicle Works founder and current solo artist Ian McNabb is ready to conclude his latest trilogy

The Ride and former Oasis man explains how he came to play with Pink Floyd and explore the world of progressive music

The 10 best songs from Brian May, Queen's endlessly creative cloud-haired riff-master and space expert