Rob Hughes

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

Turned on by Genesis, Beefheart, Zappa and Can, the former member of The Fall and The Creepers continues to smuggle prog into his nightly radio show on BBC 6 Music

Forget Centrefold – the J. Geils Band were America’s original ass-shaking, rock’n’roll party starters. And they had the Hollywood marriages and the celebrity fans to prove it

Think of the most outrageous gig you’ve ever seen, then forget it. Butthole Surfers took balls-out anarchic performance ‘art’ to a debauched new low

Jeff Lynne looks back at a long and hugely successful rock’n’roll career, one that has seen him lead ELO, work with The Beatles, and be in a band with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty

Power-pop nirvana meets emotional baggage and personal tragedy in the story of the great white hopes of the early 70s.

Sylvia was originally a lovelorn “cabaret song” written for a singer called Sylvia Alberts, and it helped paved the way for Focus’s rapid rise to fame

Few musicians called a ‘legend’ really deserve the accolade. Even if being chief architect of The Band was all he’d ever done, singer-songwriter Robbie Robertson is one who does