The Tom Waits’ albums you should definitely own
From boozy beat poet to avant garde conductor of the 'Junkyard Orchestra', a guide to Tom Waits' best albums and the work of a musical...
The story behind Jackson Browne’s favourite Jackson Browne album cover
Based on a painting by Belgian surrealist René Magritte, the cover photograph for Jackson Browne's Late For The Sky took weeks to capture
As teenagers Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck jammed and traded licks. As young men they changed the sound of rock’n’roll. In 1999 they sat down to talk about it
“Jimi Hendrix? What about him? He stole my fuzz box!"
Robert Fripp broadcasts 23-second Christmas message of love and creativity
Robert Fripp's Christmas message comes in the wake of a neighbourhood fire that threatened some of his guitars
The riff is a belter, the lyrics arrived out of thin air at Ringo Starr’s house, and the promo video for it is pure pantomime – the story behind Beavis and Butthead’s favourite Judas Priest song
"Everyone's had a confrontation with a copper and likes to scream about breaking the law, don't they?" - Rob Halford
“Kids came in their thousands, and the first two rows looked like Attila The Hun’s frontline troops – frothing at the mouth”: four years on the road with America’s ultimate party band, Van Halen
At the tag end of the 70s, Van Halen were poised to become one of the biggest-grossing acts on the planet... but the cracks were...