Rob Hughes

With 60s pop music going psychedelic, The Hollies' Graham Nash wrote a song about the hippie trail in Morocco. But it had to wait till he teamed up with David Crosby and Stephen Stills.

From the Prog archive: Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founder Genesis P-Orridge reflects on a career inspired by Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, Can and Jan Dukes De Grey

Psychedelic outlaws the Flying Burrito Brothers mixed rock with country and came up with a sound that generated fortunes for others

Turned on by Genesis, Beefheart, Zappa and Can, the former member of The Fall and The Creepers continues to smuggle prog into his nightly radio show on BBC 6 Music

Forget Centrefold – the J. Geils Band were America’s original ass-shaking, rock’n’roll party starters. And they had the Hollywood marriages and the celebrity fans to prove it

Think of the most outrageous gig you’ve ever seen, then forget it. Butthole Surfers took balls-out anarchic performance ‘art’ to a debauched new low

Jeff Lynne looks back at a long and hugely successful rock’n’roll career, one that has seen him lead ELO, work with The Beatles, and be in a band with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty

Power-pop nirvana meets emotional baggage and personal tragedy in the story of the great white hopes of the early 70s.

Sylvia was originally a lovelorn “cabaret song” written for a singer called Sylvia Alberts, and it helped paved the way for Focus’s rapid rise to fame

Few musicians called a ‘legend’ really deserve the accolade. Even if being chief architect of The Band was all he’d ever done, singer-songwriter Robbie Robertson is one who does

The Bonzo Dog and Rutles man discusses his career and recent studio album Nearly Really...

10 of the best from The Band, the quintet who backed Bob Dylan on The Basement Tapes and went on to shape Americana

Nick Marsh and Katherine Blake were lovers and collaborators, and From The Deep was their gothic-folk vision. But after his death, it became a testament to love, grief and the healing power of music

From Badfinger to Black Sabbath, we pick 10 bands whose careers may have gone differently were it not for The Beatles

SST Records quickly attracted a roster of cult stars to become one of the hippest underground imprints ever – here we pick through the best albums to be released on the label

Classic Rock talks to Jimi Hendrix's friends, admirers and other musicians about his life and importance

The Can keyboard player and composer looks back over fascinating and varied career...

Banned by the BBC because it was about a prostitute, this reggae-rocking semi-ballad put The Police on the road to superstardom

Lynyrd Skynyrd's down-home anthem was a retort to Neil Young's Southern Man, but decades on it's soundtracked everything from KFC to video games

With their pop-rock classic resurrected for the Breaking Bad soundtrack, original Badfinger member Joey Molland recalls the band oft likened to The Beatles whose time ended in tragedy.

10 cuts of prime Phish, as we dissect the very best from rock's leading improvisors

A rare archive interview from legendary bluesman BB King