Mark Blake

One minute Queen were taking the bus and watching their Top Of The Pops performance in a shop window: the next they had the world at their feet

The fleeting moment when a prog supergroup hijacked the US pop charts, becoming 1982's band of the summer

Formed from the ashes of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Rutles were a razorsharp pastiche of The Beatles with links to Monty Python and the Fab Four themselves

The former Genesis guitarist discusses new album The Night Siren, his time in Genesis and his 'Nurofen hands'!

Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham look back at the troublesome birth of a classic live album, Thin Lizzy’s Live And Dangerous

A short celebration of Herman Rarebell, Roger Taylor and eight other sticksmen who bravely stepped out from behind the kit

In the summer of 1976, Jon Anderson released his first solo album, Olias Of Sunhillow – forty years later, he talks us through its complex creation

From underground clubs to sold-out stadiums, Pink Floyd's path through rock has been revolutionary and stunningly successful. Here are their 50 best songs

With Pink Floyd out of ideas for the follow-up to the all-conquering The Dark Side Of The Moon, they delivered what would become one of their defining songs

It was meant to be the follow-up to Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon... but Pink Floyd's lost album Household Objects never saw the light of day

It had a cow’s arse on the cover and a track sampling their roadie cooking bacon, but the wild genius of Pink Floyd’s psychedelic art rock made Atom Heart Mother their first No. 1

In 1994 Pink Floyd released The Division Bell, their final album with Rick Wright. This is its story...

In the late 1960s, the psychedelic revolution changed everything – and, thanks to The Beatles, Floyd and more, helped usher in the progressive rock era…

Looking back at the making of one Pink Floyd's most overlooked but important releases, Atom Heart Mother

Pink Floyd may have hated the term ‘space rock’, but in 1988 their music was the chosen soundtrack for the crew of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-7

Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright made a surprise appearance with David Gilmour at a London Cinema in 2007. A year later, he was gone

After Syd Barrett left, Pink Floyd were on a constant search for a sound – their sound. Eventually, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason would find it

Pink Floyd's Animals raged about sexual oppression and material greed, and the tour that followed almost broke the band

It was just another night in the life of a successful rock star: a film premiere and a party. But the evening was also Keith Moon's last

Moving Pictures was the album that turned Rush from a cult progressive rock band into globe-straddling rock titans. Here it is, rearranged from worst to first

In hock to the Mob, fuelled by booze and cocaine, and with a roster that ran from Kiss to Donna Summer, Casablanca Records was the embodiment of 70s record label excess

Put Jimmy Page and Robert Plant in a room with a bunch of Moroccan musicians and what do you get? A glorious, unledded update of Led Zeppelin’s legacy, that’s what

Often maligned and occasionally magnificent, sometimes supergroups really do make albums as good as the sum of their parts - here are 10 of the best

Clocking in at just over two minutes, Stone Cold Crazy announced Queen to the world (in a town hall in 1970) but wasn’t recorded until their third album