Ian Fortnam

Too punk for punk in the late 70s, Oi! elder statesmen in the early 80s, living-legend role models in the early 90s, Cock Sparrer never got credit for what they started

Originally written at a clandestine recording session, Absolute Beginners was the start of a 10-year musical relationship

Punk-loving former Runaways hellraiser Joan Jett talks about being a threat and inspiring the riot grrrl movement

More than 60 years after his first hit single, Dion has returned with an album of collaborations with female artists

Everyone's favourite nonagenarian starship captain continues to boldly go where no man has gone before

A duo back in the 60s, Medicine Head is now effectively just John Fiddler, whose new album Heartworks is filled with love

Modern English on getting older, the trouble with politics, and the financial heft of Burger King

With poetic concision and angular symphonics, guitarists Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine always took the most unorthodox route from one guitar chord to another

The Velvet Underground reshaped the sound of rock'n'roll with four albums that continue to have an incalculable influence on the musical zeitgeist. The less said about their fifth, the better

After the fractious Let It Be sessions, Paul McCartney urged his bandmates back into the studio to make an album “like the old days, like we used to"

"I would never take Mick's recollection of anything seriously" - Keith Richards

Celebrating the pioneering, the spectacular, the unexpected and the unrepeatable

The past 12 months may go down in history as a period of tumult and turmoil, but on the positive side, rock'n'roll is very much alive and well – as the best 50 albums of 2023 reflect

Saint Agnes's metal-meets-punk debut album is angry – very angry. They live for the stage, and that’s where they come alive

For prodigious Brooklynite post-post-punks Geese, it all began just as they were about to call it a day

Two Iggy Pop albums and the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ – the second half of the 1970s was David Bowie’s most groundbreaking period

How five psychedelic freaks from Detroit became rock’n’roll’s first great bogeymen – this is the story of Alice Cooper’s early years

Half a century of recordings from ‘the greatest rock‘n’roll band in the world’, ranked from worst to brilliant, belligerent best

Massively inspirational, the 1969 album didn’t enjoy mass appeal at the time.