Rob Hughes

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

Inspired by the LA riots, Killing In The Name became an unlikely Christmas number one 17 years after its release

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 making of the alt.rock classic that inspired Kurt Cobain and took 10 minutes to write

How the Ramones classic owed a debt to the Bay City Rollers

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

In which Bob Dylan goes electric at 1965's Newport Folk Festival and the world changes

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

Producer/engineer Eddie Kramer delights in the studio brilliance of Led Zeppelin – even though Robert Plant stole his girlfriend

Written by Otis Redding and his guitarist/producer Steve Cropper, (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay became a classic, but Redding died in a plane crash before he was able to enjoy its success

Rob Hughes looks at the impact of the Fab Four's 1967 classic album on the ensuing prog rock years...

If you’ve ever heard anything on the Stax Records label, then you’ve probably heard Steve Cropper's masterful guitar playing. He might well have written and produced it too

Illinois Anglophiles Cheap Trick are deep into their fifth decade of existence, and they're enjoying a late-career surge of creativity

If you thought all Hawkwind’s freaky stuff belonged to the early 70s, you ain't seen nothing yet

"Gutless, spineless and devoid of inspiration" said the UK press of Tangerine Dream. UK music listeners didn't agree!

For a short period in the 60s, the Walker Brothers were bigger than The Beatles, idolised and frantically mobbed by hysterical screaming girl fans – but their main singer hated it

Gimme Some Lovin’ by the Spencer Davis Group was knocked off in less time than it took to cart Steve Winwood’s Hammond into the Marquee

Ray Davies recalls how, in three takes one morning in 1964, a neurotic 19-year-old and a guitarist with a razor created All Day And All Of The Night and the blueprint for metal and punk

With or without The Dukes, Steve Earle is a true rock’n’roll maverick, and these are his best albums

Between 1967 and 1982, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band wrote some of the most startling, sly and plain out-there songs this side of Frank Zappa

Actor and musician William Shatner picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals why BB King's daughter called him "a gift from god"

It's been a long time since Robert Plant fronted the biggest band in the world, and now he’s enjoying the fourth decade of a successful solo career

“We’re your new leaders!” announce The OBGMs, who’ve clearly got it in for the music business