Rob Hughes

Even The Beatles’ most overlooked songs are better than many other bands’ best numbers

2023's unlikeliest duo discuss art as inspiration, Hendrix's guitar and the forthcoming Kevin Ayers’ reissues

Shape-shifting Norwegian proggers Motorpsycho discuss the creation of their 2022 album Ancient Astronauts, a lockdown album like no other

They both left the pioneering band in 1975, but for dancer and lifelong artist Stacia, the connections were never broken

The Woodstock Festival became part of rock'n'roll folklore as half a million hippies descended on a farm in upstate New York in 1969

Few artists, if any, have captured rustic, earthy Americana as well as the mostly non-American quintet The Band

He’s glad he never reached a level of success where someone offered to make him a star

The eclectic drummer has been the jokey one in some bands and the serious, grown-up one in others - but it all comes down to the same approach

Music as movement, speakers in teapots and laughing with Robert Fripp are all part of the great experimenter’s process

10 live albums that remain a career pinnacle for 10 legendary bands

Vivian Stanshall and his conspirators aimed to “play as loudly and badly as possible until someone took notice” – and it actually worked

During prog’s earliest days, their 1968 US tour saw them treated like messiahs, aliens and harbingers of doom - and left them terrified

Revered music series ran for nearly two decades after Thijs van Leer’s band played two-song set during its first year

Since their dramatic arrival in the UK via TV screens in the early 70s, Sparks have continued to make extraordinary music on their own terms. Now they’re enjoying a late-career renaissance

The bands who defied the sophomore slump to deliver the greatest albums of their career

At a critical and commercial peak after Aqualung, Tull frontman Ian Anderson created an album that split one epic track over two sides - parodying prog and rock poetry

Radiohead drummer Philip Selway discusses his career to date in Prog Magazine's The Prog Interview...

From Kyuss to Queens Of The Stone Age via Eagles Of Death Metal, Them Crooked Vultures and various hook-ups, Josh Homme's path through rock'n'roll is flecked with gold

Founder of The Animals, party buddy of Hendrix and Morrison and hero to Springsteen, Eric Burdon is a bluesman, a rogue and a survivor, and this is his story

Paul Butterfield inspired Dylan to plug in, was a virtuoso singer and mouth harp player, and took black blues to white America. But beneath the surface, trouble was brewing

Seymour Stein's iconic Sire label championed punk and new wave in the 70s, but also gave a home to great musical misfits from any generation

Jaren Johnston grew up steeped in rock and country - and he knows a thing or two about both

"How fabulous, in a bathtub in Paris!" - Lou Reed, upon hearing of the death of Doors frontman Jim Morrison

Whether reshaping roots music or making emotive soundtracks, Ry Cooder’s albums have always reflected that X factor called class - and these are his beat