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In 2001, the suicide of Big Country ’s Stuart Adamson shocked music fans all over the world. How had the man once lauded by DJ John Peel as ‘Scotland’s answer to Jimi Hendrix’ ended up taking his own life? In an exclusive extract from a new book, we look at the inside story of their debut album The Crossing .

Following Richey Edwards’ disappearance and the “commercial disaster” of The Holy Bible , the MANIC STREET PREACHERS were told that this is the end. Instead, they roared back with an unassailable anthem heralding one of the biggest British albums of the ’90s. Sam Richards celebrates 30 years of Everything Must Go : “It was the most spectacular feeling,” says Nicky Wire. “That period when you go over the top...”

Knocked up quickly in a Soho rehearsal room, one of the first rallying cries of punk becomes a perennial anthem

Last year saw Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s classic 1984 debut album Welcome To The Pleasuredome belatedly celebrate its 40th anniversary with an impeccable and exhaustive 7CD boxset. It won Classic Pop

…For Randy’s friends to ask him whatever they hell they want. We sat the Lamb Of God frontman down for an all-star grilling

Oh boy, at age 16 I can almost divvy my interests up as a 70/30 focus on the world. Seventy per cent was music. I was playing in a punk rock band, while also playing in a Joy Division-inspired new wav