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The forgotten classic album with the notorious cover... that sank a legendary supergroup
The supergroup that burned bright, fell apart, and left one iconic album, leaving a legacy equal parts tension and brilliance
So you want to get into jazz? Start with these 13 essential albums
From Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock, these 13 albums reveal the many faces of jazz – soulful, swinging, romantic, strange and endlessly rewarding
Glory, disaster, redemption: the 9 most turbulent bands in rock history
From creative disagreements to musical missteps, these legendary rock bands rode dramatic waves of success and failure
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Born to Run isn't No. 1: every Bruce Springsteen album, ranked
From forgotten detours to timeless anthems, we rank Bruce Springsteen’s albums – the missteps, the masterpieces, and everything in between
Thunderous riffs and schoolboy humour: all 17 AC/DC albums ranked (no. 2 is the connoisseur's choice)
AC/DC never needed reinvention – just riffs, attitude and volume. But which albums truly deliver the goods, and which disappoint?
Sued for sounding like himself: 13 of rock's most bizarre lawsuits
Harmful messages, subconscious plagiarism, and a disastrous soft-drink giveaway: step inside the weird world of rock lawsuits
'He dangled a rival from a fourth-floor balcony': the 17 most infamous managers in rock history
From manipulation and financial shenanigans to scandal and ego, these infamous rock managers shaped music – and sometimes ruined lives
Manfred Honeck appointed as Philharmonia Orchestra principal conductor
The Austrian conductor takes up the post in 2028, replacing current principal conductor Santtu Matias-Rouvali
The 27 greatest symphonies ever written: visionary masterpieces that still astonish us
From Beethoven’s thunderous defiance to Mahler’s cosmic visions, these are the 21 symphonies that have astonished listeners for generations
Here's the worst song on every Led Zeppelin album
Led Zeppelin rarely did filler, but even they stumbled occasionally. Here’s the weakest song on every album, from their explosive debut to the retrospective 'Coda'
The life of a Hollywood session musician is often stressful and rarely credited… but never dull
Violinist Thomas Bowes, veteran of countless movie scores, reveals the secrets of recording a Hollywood soundtrack
The Eagles song nobody wanted to record – and the strange reason they did
The Eagles hated this syrupy song – but recorded it anyway, because refusing it could have pushed the band towards breaking point
1975: the 21 greatest albums from rock's great year of change
1975 was the year classic rock reached its peak while punk, funk, electronic music and something altogether stranger began taking shape
'I didn’t really get what it was about': the Stones classic that Mick Jagger never truly understood
Mick Jagger gave one of the Rolling Stones’ greatest performances to a song he later admitted he didn’t really understand. So what was going on?
13 songs inspired by infamous true crimes
Some of rock’s darkest songs began with real crimes. Discover the murders, killers and victims that inspired these 13 remarkable tracks
Ouch! Five terrible treatments of the piano
Review: Alma y Fuego (Simón BolÃvar SO/Dudamel)
This refined 150th-anniversary tribute is a triumph, writes Erik Levi
These 13 classic albums only exist because no one ever said 'stop spending'
Rock celebrates rough edges, but sometimes limitless budgets, endless studio time and outright extravagance created albums that simply couldn't exist otherwise
How can we stop music from being eroded at our schools and universities?
On This Day, 1984: the night MTV changed music forever
MTV’s first Video Music Awards looked like a risky experiment. Then Madonna fell off a wedding cake – and pop history changed forever
These 17 songs soundtracked the dark side of 1970s America
1970s urban America could be a turbulent, paranoid, often violent place. These 17 songs soundtrack those dark, strange times
'Nobody's going to find out': rock's 15 strangest pairings (no. 5 nearly derailed two careers)
Guitar heroes and hip-hop pioneers: these unlikely collaborations reveal what happens when rock stars step outside their usual boundaries
'I never saw what the big fuss was about': the legendary guitarist AC/DC's Angus Young had no time for
Angus Young has never been shy about naming the rock legends he thinks fall short of his uncompromising musical standards
Yuja Wang: a guide to the celebrated pianist and her best recordings
Meet the world-famous Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, and discover some of her best recordings
