Mick Jagger gave one of the Rolling Stones’ greatest performances to a song he later admitted he didn’t really understand. So ...

Some of rock’s darkest songs began with real crimes. Discover the murders, killers and victims that inspired these 13 ...

We present five terrible treatments of the piano over the years, which have been, alas, filmed for posterity. Here they ...

Yet you could argue that there’s more soul and less fire in Gustavo Dudamel’s interpretation of El amor brujo. This is ...

America could be a turbulent, paranoid, often violent place. These 17 songs soundtrack those dark, strange times ...

MTV’s first Video Music Awards looked like a risky experiment. Then Madonna fell off a wedding cake – and pop history changed forever ...

As vinyl sleeves grew into larger creative canvases, musicians in the 1970s increasingly turned to visionary photographers, ...

Angus Young has never been shy about naming the rock legends he thinks fall short of his uncompromising musical standards ...

When great bands start to fracture, the studio becomes a pressure cooker – and sometimes that tension produces their finest ...

From R.E.M. to The Smiths, college radio defined a parallel 1980s chart where emotion, noise and invention mattered most ...

There’s a peculiar danger in leaving a great rock band: you might discover that the magic didn’t belong entirely to you. Some musicians walked away from hugely successful groups convinced they could ...

David Gilmour has never been shy about Pink Floyd’s missteps, and three albums in particular remain sources of regret ...