Footage filmed in the final days of Les Paul’s Mahwah, New Jersey home and workshop has surfaced after the property was sold for a reported $990,000 and torn down. His son says the family was shut out; the Les Paul Foundation says the legacy was never confined to one building.

Days before playing to 250,000 people at the first Rock in Rio, AC/DC hit Ipanema Beach like ordinary tourists. Inside the January 1985 photo of a band on the verge of the biggest crowd of its life.

August 2018, beneath Cologne Cathedral: Joan Baez surprised Patti Smith mid-concert and the two sang Dylan’s ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ through tears – the night the torch visibly passed.

She married the broke singer of Fraternity in 1972 and knew Bon Scott better than the myth ever did. The story of Irene Thornton, the Adelaide girl who loved Bon before AC/DC.

Nominated for ‘Distance’, the song he wrote for his late father, Wolfgang Van Halen brought the only date that made sense to the 2022 Grammys: his mum, Valerie Bertinelli.

In 1979 a 22-year-old guitar teacher plugged in, warmed up, and was hired for Ozzy Osbourne’s new band before playing a song – by a singer he never met that day. The true story of rock’s greatest audition.

An empty chair for Eddie, a borrowed necklace from Valerie, and a walk down the aisle to ‘316’ – the details that made Wolfgang Van Halen’s 2023 wedding a quiet masterpiece of family love.

Daughter of folk royalty, voice of ‘Fairytale of New York’, and the writer who made Billy Bragg extend ‘A New England’ – the case for Kirsty MacColl as the most underestimated songwriter Britain produced.

In 1998 Elliott Smith played 134 seconds of ‘Miss Misery’ at the Academy Awards in a white suit, between Trisha Yearwood and Celine Dion. How rock’s quietest craftsman survived its loudest stage.

Eddie Van Halen wrote ‘316’ for the baby in his arms; that baby grew up to spend 13 years on Van Halen’s stage and honour his father with a number-one song. The full-circle story of rock’s warmest father-son legacy.