Living with Lemmy, Sharing a tour bus with Bo Diddley, refusing to get out of bed for Martin Scorsese – these are the stories of Topper Headon, legendary drummer with The Clash
Europe took the classic hard rock template and made it 'continental'. Here's the countdown of the Scandi-rockers' best albums
Multi-platinum Canadians Finger Eleven will release their first album in a decade next year - we asked what they've been doing in the meantime
Bobbie Dazzle is the West Midlands singer bringing back the upbeat music, fun and fashion of the 70s
Former Runaway Cherie Currie plans to play "the songs I know people love" on what will likely be her final UK tour
When David Bowie first appeared on TV it was not as a musician but as president of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men
The band’s first phase features a charming, very English sense of melancholy and melodrama – matched with wilful prog complexity
Including The Sheepdogs, Ricky Warwick, The Band Feel and five other members of the new rock power generation
Love And Rockets emerged from the ashes of Bauhaus – but unlike their old band, they hit big in the States
The grunge-rockers' multi-million selling debut turned 30 this month and the singer says success was a long time coming
The Genesis frontman was tasked with presenting to an inebriated Bono & co. in 1992 and they were in a cheeky mood
In 2012, Rush released their nineteenth and final studio album Clockwork Angels – and last words don’t come any better
Their music ranged from all out hard rock to big pop hits (and occasionally funk). But here’s undeniable proof they could prog out with the best of them as well
Love/Hate blazed out of late 80s LA with killer debut Blackout In The Red Room – only to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
Soundgarden’s 2012 comeback album King Animal was their first in 16 years – and it found the grunge pioneers finally comfortable with their legacy
Ritchie Blackmore was out, US hotshot Tommy Bolin was in and Deep Purple’s Mk IV line-up were about to make the most under-rated album of their career
How Aleister Crowley, aka The Great Beast, influenced generations of metal bands
Trashing hotel rooms with Ozzy, teaching Mark Wahlberg how to rock and almost joining Guns N’ Roses – Black Label Society guitar berserker Zakk Wylde has done all of it and more
The rock'n'roll icon drew a line under his live career with a charity gig performance in New York in 2006
