Meet Jackson C. Frank, a folk singer who released just one album in 1965. His life was a tragedy: a boiler explosion at school killed 15...

When American rock and roll made its way to the UK in the 1950s and 60s, along with a burgeoning folk and blues revival, many young...

In the mid-seventies, many people felt excluded from and disdained by the mainstream of rock and roll, which had largely come to...

Christmas, 1976, summer time in Australia and, according to Michael Browning, their manager, AC/DC “have got the shits”. What’s more,...

First, speaking as a collector of Monopoly board games, one of the things geeks like me look forward to are the game pieces, and...

They had already established a blueprint. Now, all Metallica needed to do was create the next-level songs for their epochal third album,...

It's been well documented that AC/DC are the greatest band in the history of the galaxy, I've seen them a fair few times live and I can...

In 1974, John Lennon would take to the main stage of a huge stadium for the very last time and leave the entire world wanting more. The...

If you had to pinpoint the two most iconic figures from the history of British music, chances are the answer you would be met with is...

Paul McCartney heard from a man in the United States referring to Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones as "good, but plastic soul"....

The young art director’s idea to photograph as many of the luminaries of the New York jazz scene as possible together for Esquire’s 1959...

In March 1972, Bob Marley and Johnny Nash performed a free gig at a secondary school in south London (above) after a chance encounter...

Standing on a chair at a microphone, he sang “Old Shep” at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show, held in Tupelo. The show was...

By the summer of 1973, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s marriage was on the rocks. As an unusual remedy, Ono suggested that Lennon embark on an...

In 1961, Hendrix was given a choice between  two years in jail or or joining the Army after a run in with the law for riding in stolen...

In 1981 Paul McCartney flew to Monteserrat, where Beatles producer George Martin had installed a state-of-the-art studio, to begin work...

On December 10, 1967, the plane carrying Otis Redding and his band the Bar-Kays crashed into the frigid waters of Lake Monona in...

Metallica didn’t exactly make an auspicious arrival. Danish émigré Lars Ulrich – a devotee of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal – took...

Woody’s songs—like “Reuben James,” “Roll on Columbia,” “Union Maid” and “Pastures of Plenty”—have been some of the most recognizable and...

When his mother first enrolled him and his brother in dance classes when Gene was still a boy, he had to endure taunts from his...

The Rolling Stones have built a reputation as one of the most dynamic live bands of all time. Their energy belies their years and their...

It was in March 1980 that Brian Johnson got the phone call that would change his life. A new decade had just begun, but Johnson had...

The Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow” is regarded nowadays as a psychedelic classic. But the group’s collective mood in 1967 can be...

Vodou (the proper Kreyol/Creole spelling of Voodoo) is a neo-African religion that evolved in the New World from the 6000-year-old West...