Robert Plant’s furious defense of “Black Dog” reveals how Led Zeppelin turned a bar-band riff into rock’s most brilliantly “wrong” groove.

Producer Tony Visconti saw raw genius in Marc Bolan before T. Rex hit the charts. How that gut call helped spark glam rock and still guides musicians.

Jeff Beck once said Stevie Ray Vaughan was the closest thing to Hendrix in the blues. Here is what that praise really means for guitar and the blues.

In the mid 70s, Billy Preston turned the Rolling Stones’ arena circus into a Beatles-Stones crossover, with George Harrison’s fingerprints all over the show.

Behind the Bee Gees’ glitter and heartbreak is Barry Gibb’s toughest act of all: a 50-plus-year marriage to Linda Gray that outlasted disco itself.

How a quiet East End guitarist walked into John Mayall’s studio, cut A Hard Road in five days and, for many ears, out-bluesed Eric Clapton.

Inside Roy Buchanan’s brutal simplicity: band-hopping, horn sections, stolen drum licks and the terrifying power of a single note to beat a thousand.

How a trucker’s son from Jacksonville stepped into his brother’s ghostly spotlight, rebuilt Lynyrd Skynyrd, and turned Southern rock into a lifelong mission.

In 1975, Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali met backstage at Madison Square Garden, fusing protest music and heavyweight politics in one iconic image.

Chris Cornell went from anxious Seattle kid to self-taught vocal giant. Here is how his raw range, ear and lyrics rewired rock from grunge to Audioslave.