Brian Jones lived sex, drugs and rock and roll before it had a name. How the doomed Rolling Stones founder became rock’s first modern star.
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In 1990 Freddie Mercury could hardly walk, yet he walked into the studio, downed a vodka and delivered rock’s most fearless vocal. Here is what really happened.
A candid photo of Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson with Stevie Nicks, sold as a Studio 54 moment, reveals how three rock queens quietly rewrote the 70s rulebook.
In 1974 Mott the Hoople tried to immortalise the ‘Golden Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ just as their own world exploded in hits, riots and burnout.
How Keith Richards and Bill Wyman went from unlikely bandmates to estranged colleagues who still built the Rolling Stones’ heartbeat.
How the death of Eric Clapton’s son Conor shaped “Tears in Heaven,” his sobriety, and a legacy that is as haunting as it is controversial.
How Brian Jones, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton and Roger Daltrey turned The Rolling Stones’ ill-fated Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus into a surreal snapshot of rock’s dark turning point.
How rock ’n’ roll exploded from 50s jukebox rebellion into Hendrix’s fireworks, Sabbath’s doom and AC/DC’s stadium thunder – and why it still refuses to die.
Before stadiums and schoolboy uniforms, Angus Young was a teenage firebrand in Kantuckee. Here is what we really know about that loud, half-mythical 1972 era.
How Ray Manzarek’s left hand, organ tones and partnership with Jim Morrison turned The Doors from another LA bar band into one of rock’s strangest revolutions.