Martin Kielty

The Irish band’s award-winning work on cult 80s TV show Robin Of Sherwood transformed how music was used in small-screen productions. Amid flashbacks to overwork and lightning-speed inspiration, they bowed out at the Albert Hall with the release of Legend Extended

Keith Emerson, Davy O’List and Lee Jackson created enough controversy to last for decades in their original three-year run

The then-unknown band lost their management, got hurt in a serious road crash and cut a dodgy deal – and that’s why they’re still around today

Never mind the usual drink and drug offences… quirky, eccentric incidents seem to surround some of those who make music the same way

The brief encounter wasn’t what anyone could have predicted – but it was enough to give the younger singer a tantalising idea.

The folk icon – who never planned on being one – recalls hilarious haircuts, playing musical bedrooms, boxing clever with label execs and becoming a heavy metal fan

Bassist contributed to some of the band’s most definitive works – but ultimately couldn’t resist the call of another art form

Horrified by sessions in a French chateau, they went home, dumped the work they’d done on their Thick As A Brick follow-up and started again. The result was a Marmite production that inspired split rumours

Their second single remains their second-biggest hit, and will always be significant in their history

Five years after they’d felt forced to dump him, the band’s original leader shocked his former colleagues at Abbey Road in 1975

If Back And Fourth producer Gus Dudgeon had arrived early, Ray Laidlaw wouldn’t have been looking through Alan Hull’s lyric book beside a piano

With musical talent to spare and Led Zeppelin’s manager behind them, Stone The Crows should have been a success story. Instead it’s one of tragic death and unfulfilled potential

Stuart Braithwaite and Dominic Aitchison struggle to keep their list down to five

In 1977, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band played the Reading Festival. Harvey was being acclaimed as a punk pioneer and the future looked bright. But it was to be their last ever gig…

King Crimson downed tools as Robert Fripp's battle with Universal Music escalated. It’s a war he’s waged since the 1970s, he says, on behalf of artists everywhere

In 2020, Clannad released the career-spanning anthology, In A Lifetime, and announced they would soon be calling it a day. From Harry’s Game and Robin Of Sherwood, to drugs and miscarriages, vocalists Moya and Pól Brennan run through the highs and lows of the last 50 years