Paul McCartney: the albums outside The Beatles you should definitely own
It’s easy to forget that there’s more to Macca than The Beatles and the Frog Chorus: Just take a look at his rock’n’roll legacy
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How lyrics scribbled on tea-stained paper gave Elton John everything he needed
Elton John and Bernie Taupin's Your Song was written over breakfast and took a year to become a hit, but it gave Elton's career the push it needed to go stratospheric
Buzzcocks' Steve Diggle: "five years of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll took its toll"
Buzzcocks' leader Steve Diggle on following his dream, the toll of partying too hard, and continuing after losing Pete Shelley
Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman: the soundtrack of my life
Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals why bossa nova is the perfect music for breakfast
That time Parkinson challenged Elton John to write a song on the spot for the silliest lyrics ever - and he absolutely nailed it
Only Elton could make "The carpets are soggy and where is poor moggy?" sound this beautiful
"I even saw some fans doing heroin outside one of those shows" - the real story behind Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory
The definitive story of the biggest selling debut album of the 21st century, as told by Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda
Bill Wyman: my stories of Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Keith Moon and more
Bill Wyman dared to quit the band that Keith Richards said people only left “in a box”: he's also mates with Clapton and Page, and he's got some stories
Tracks of the Week: new music from Those Damn Crows, Jaws The Shark and more
Eight lovely songs to assist your escape from the ongoing apocalypse
"We are the rock Muhammad Ali”: how punchy Swedes The Hives delivered a knockout with Your New Favourite Band
As it turns 21, here's how Your New Favourite Band made Swedish garage punks The Hives genuine contenders
David Coverdale once named his 20 favourite British albums ever
Whitesnake leader David Coverdale's favourite British albums included only one released this century, one of his own, and two fronted by an American
The story of Metallica and the ‘obscene’ punk cover that got them banned from MTV
“It just felt good to blast the words ‘cock’ and ‘fuck’”: the story behind Metallica’s shocking cover of Anti-Nowhere League’s punk classic So What?
The Roy Harper albums you should definitely own
Led Zeppelin wrote a song about him, Pink Floyd invited him to sing on another, but this is the very best of Roy Harper's own recorded work
"Out, demons, out!" The historic day The Fugs attempted to levitate the Pentagon
“This pistol is filled with LSD. I’m gonna squirt the troops and get them all high"
Six songs you need to know by Placebo
New to Placebo, or just need a refresher? These are the tracks you absolutely need to hear
Ozzy Osbourne on his health struggles and what the future holds: “I’m 73, I can’t do this once I’m dead”
How Ozzy Osbourne’s Patient Number 9 has given metal’s greatest icon a new lease of life
10 post-rock albums you should definitely own
While arguments about what post-rock actually is continue to rage, the genre has given us plenty of adventurous and thrilling music
The Godfathers are back with a new line-up, a new album, and a disdain for poodle hairdos
Having fired the old band a hired a new one, Peter Coyne reckons The Godfathers pack lot of "a whole lot of rock’n’roll dynamite"
Rock star, interrupted: the unsung story of grunge pioneer Tina Bell and Bam Bam
The story of Seattle grunge forerunners Bam Bam and their incendiary singer Tina Bell is one of the most overlooked in rock’n’roll. Ten years after Bell’s tragic death, we find out where it all first went right – and then wrong
Every Led Zeppelin album ranked from worst to best
Led Zeppelin albums ranked in the order you should set fire to them if held at gunpoint by a disgruntled ex-lover
