At 19 he refused a producer, played every credited instrument, and made Warner print five unprecedented words on the sleeve. The debut album as ultimatum.

A 1993 ‘soundtrack’ with one song in the actual programme, buried by its own label – and the record Bowie kept calling his favourite. The case for his least-heard album.

Born in Kirriemuir, made in Fremantle, immortalised in bronze on top of a Marshall amp – why a Western Australian port town built a statue of AC/DC’s wildest son, and why it works.

His mother told him she was an alcoholic when he was a boy; her 25-year sobriety broke when both sons turned to heroin. The family story addiction headlines never show.

Written in his father’s voice on Chris Cornell’s couch, ‘Rooster’ turned an unspoken Vietnam tour into a song – and the estranged Cantrells into family again. The man in the photo is the man in the song.

Shop staff keep looking up to find Led Zeppelin’s singer at the racks, buying young bands’ vinyl. Plant’s lifelong record-store habit is the engine of rock’s greatest second act.

No album out, a midnight slot moved to 2pm, and a leader peaking on mescaline who thought his guitar was a snake – the 45 Woodstock minutes that made Santana famous before their debut hit shops.

Between Cheap Thrills and Pearl her voice audibly changed – and on her last album, with Paul Rothchild coaching between takes, Joplin was learning restraint just in time. Almost.

1,128 shows in eight years, every one sold out, 636 of them in Vegas alone – and a private man who existed only at night, behind walls. The domestic Elvis the cameras never found.

A lefty in a righty market, Hendrix flipped his Stratocasters and reversed every asymmetry Fender built in – the slanted pickup, the string lengths, the controls. What the flip actually did to his sound.