Rob Hughes

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

Janis Joplin was the extraordinary singer who brought the Blues into the Summer Of Love, whose star shone brightly but briefly

When the going got tough, heading for burn-out and facing calling time on something they’d put so much into, Swedish band Blues Pills pulled together and got going

That Mark Lanegan is alive is a surprise – to him as much as to anyone else. His self-destructive days are now behind him, but for years it looked like we would be robbed of one of the stand-out singing voices of his generation

A song that Mungo Jerry didn’t consider to have potential as a single, In The Summertime was a worldwide hit that soundtracked the summer of 1970

How British folk rocker Roy Harper made one of the defining unplugged albums of the 1970s – with a little help from Jimmy Page

Roy Harper's fifth album, 1971's Stormcock is widely considered to be one of his very best

Massively talented? Yes. Solid-gold songs? Yes. Unique Anglo-American sound? Yes. On paper they had it all, so how did Spooky Tooth manage to fall through the cracks?

With its monolithic riff and yelping lead vocal, the live version of Stone Cold Fever typifies Humble Pie, one of the best live blues-rock bands of their era

It was the decade David Bowie entered the Labyrinth and fired up Tin Machine, but there's plenty of gold to be found in his 1980s work

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

With 60s pop music going psychedelic, The Hollies' Graham Nash wrote a song about the hippie trail in Morocco. But it had to wait till he teamed up with David Crosby and Stephen Stills.

From the Prog archive: Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founder Genesis P-Orridge reflects on a career inspired by Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, Can and Jan Dukes De Grey

Psychedelic outlaws the Flying Burrito Brothers mixed rock with country and came up with a sound that generated fortunes for others