Ian Fortnam

Like everyone else, Keith Richards' life is currently dictated by you know what. And while he’s behind on his reading, he still found time to “sit around writing songs, basically, or parts of songs”

The New Yorks Dolls' sleazoid, vampish veneer was fuelled by opiates and booze. Ultimately it cost them their career, and two of them their lives

From his ‘Excalibur moment’ with the guitar to The Yardbirds to (re)inventing hard rock with Led Zeppelin and beyond, Jimmy Page’s journey has seen good times, bad times and everything in between

The Beatles changed music forever with Sgt Pepper. But in 1968 they made an album that mapped out rock’s future – as they themselves were falling apart

The Stooges' Search And Destroy started out with James Williamson “goofing around making machine-gun sounds”, its combination of pounding rhythm and aggressive guitar a template for punk.

In 1973, prog-rock behemoth Emerson Lake & Palmer unleashed their ultimate album: Brain Salad Surgery, the record that marked the pinnacle of their creative extravagance

After 44 years of smashing things up, The Damned have just released one of the finest recordings of their entire career

Former Runaway Cherie Currie talks Kim Fowley, Jodie Foster, and new album Blvds Of Splendor

From pill-popping, 60s mod figureheads to Woodstock-generation rockers and way beyond: frontman Roger Daltrey talks about drugs, fights, lunacy, deaths... and music that defined a generation

Tom Robinson thinks of it as “the punk Woodstock”. It was the moment punk turned popular, and people’s band The Clash became real rock stars

From slogging away for little money but lots of fun, to a string of classic hit singles with Mott The Hoople and a thriving solo career, life has been a thrilling ride for Ian Hunter

The Alice Cooper Band's outrageous behaviour prompted a statement in Parliament while their songs thrilled a generation

After early days as a signwriter, Ronnie Wood joined the Jeff Beck Group, the Faces and the Stones. More recently he's beaten cancer, recorded a Chuck Berry tribute and fathered twins

Killing Joke vocalist Jaz Coleman joins us to talk classical music, the survival of mankind and why he's banned from politics

Altamont was meant to be a celebration, but The Rolling Stones' set was the soundtrack to tragedy and chaos

As humanity celebrates 50 years of heavy metal, here’s half a century’s worth of pioneering heavy music, from the classics to the contemporary hard-hitters

The Rolling Stones' debut album came out 55 years ago today. The sleeve alone changed everything