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These 11 bands were huge for a while. They're mostly forgotten now
Once chart-topping giants, now ghosted by history: 11 '70s and '80s bands who filled arenas, ruled radio... then quietly slipped from memory
Prog rock 1975: ranking the 17 greatest prog albums turning 50 this year
1975 was a landmark year for progressive rock, delivering groundbreaking albums that pushed musical boundaries and redefined the genre’s scope. Here are the 15 best
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer appears on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions
Chaos, death, black magic: 13 legendary rock addresses with dark pasts
From mansions with ghostly histories to studios steeped in sin, these are the haunted homes of rock ’n’ roll.
Élisabeth Pion wins 2025 Honens International Piano Competition
'Nebraska': how Springsteen forged beauty from America's dark underbelly
Quite unlike anything else from 1982, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska is a stripped-back, confessional masterpiece capturing America’s forgotten lives with haunting, intimate storytelling and timeless, darkly compelling narratives
Shock impact and religious zeal: how historically informed performance revolutionised classical music
Ranked: the 21 greatest country rock albums of all time
When rock met country, magic happened — steel guitars, road songs, and restless hearts. These 21 albums defined that bittersweet crossroads
Scandal, fraud and worse: rock's 19 most infamous managers, ranked
From manipulation and financial shenanigans to scandal and ego, these infamous rock managers shaped music – and sometimes ruined lives
Review: Nei giardini d’amore (arias by Handel, Monteverdi et al)
Hugh Cutting and Carlo Vistoli are ideally matched in these Baroque works, says Kate Bolton-Porciatti
Haydn: classical music's greatest humourist
Joseph Haydn: the classical era's great humourist... and more
Sex, scandal, symphonies: the dark history of great composers and syphilis
Romantic composers were passionate, sensual and untrammelled in their desires. Sadly, this meant a surge in deaths from syphilis
The best streaming amplifiers on the market in 2025
The lost classic album that brought down a supergroup
The supergroup that burned bright, fell apart, and left one iconic album, leaving a legacy equal parts tension and brilliance
These 15 stone-cold classic albums were a nightmare to make
From Fleetwood Mac to Tears for Fears: 15 classic rock albums that cost blood, sweat and tears to put together
The bizarre classical music work where one player sits in the other's lap
Step forward Ligeti, Stockhausen and, er, Mozart: here are classical music's strangest, craziest and weirdest compositions
These 17 bands each left us just one unforgettable song
From jangling indie to late-’90s pop, these bands left their mark with a single unforgettable hit that defined then forever more
Why a besotted piano student held Liszt at gunpoint
Ranked: the 15 greatest piano music pieces of all time
From Bach’s sacred architecture to Debussy’s shimmering dreamscapes, these 15 masterpieces trace the piano’s evolution — a story of intellect, emotion, and invention that spans three centuries and every shade of the human soul
13 bands who went huge... and then it wasn't fun anymore
They conquered the world — then fell apart. Thirteen rock bands who found fame and fortune - but lost the simple love of playing together
Ranked: 15 astonishing record labels that changed the face of rock
From Sun to Sub Pop, these 15 labels redefined rock, shaping sounds, scenes, and cultural attitudes across decades of music
Robbed from the grave: the mysterious tales of composers’ missing body parts
Steve Wright peers into the coffin as he investigates the deceased composers whose bodies continued to go on their own adventures
Suicides, debt, paranoia: the tragic tale of rock's most doomed band
They had the talent and the tunes, but not the luck. Badfinger’s story is rock’s most poignant, heartbreaking tragedy
Goodbye, Summer of Love: 15 albums that slammed the door on the Sixties
When the ’60s dream soured, rock got darker, stranger, and more truthful. These 21 albums chart the moment idealism met reality