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Fifty years on, Robin Trower's Bridge Of Sighs is still an all-time blues rock classic
Bridge Of Sighs was the second of Robin Tower's power trio’s superb trilogy of back-to-back albums in the mid-70s, and sealed his reputation
How Pete Townshend turned youthful frustration into The Who's biggest hit
Inspired by his wealthy neighbours and reinforced by a run-in with the Queen Mother, My Generation is a mod anthem turned rock legend
“They’d say, ‘I guess you’ll be retiring?’ I’d write it down”: The Anchoress had a baby, not a lobotomy
The lead track from new album As We Once Were is inspired by everyone who pissed her off. But it’s humorous, not a rant
The Pineapple Thief asked how the world went off-script with It Leads To This
Order, chaos, abandoned comfort zones and healthy tension arose as Bruce Soord and Gavin Harrison took the lead with the band’s 14th album – which left Soord feeling like it was only their fourth
In 1988, Blue Oyster Cult made the weirdest album of a very weird career and nearly sank the band
How a concept album about an alien race arriving upon Earth in the Middle Ages and baffled the band that made it
How Gregg Allman turned late-night despair into the classic Southern anthem Whipping Post
Written in the dark on an ironing board cover, Gregg Allman's raw heartbreak became an explosive blues-rock masterpiece that defined Southern rock
“We’d gone out on a limb”: Genesis genuinely feared that Foxtrot might fail
Barely planned, recorded in fits and starts and complete with one of King Crimson’s Mellotron, their 1972 album was, they believe, the moment they began to be taken seriously
How The Black Crowes went from rock’n’roll outcasts to MTV superstars – and kept their souls while they did it
The Black Crowes’ Shake Your Money Maker turned an unpopular local band into MTV-era superstars
