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DURING THE LAST week of November 1963, the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was released in the United Kingdom. That same week, a young Brit named Laurence Juber started playing guitar. It wouldn’t

Every month we get inside the mind of one of the biggest names in music. This issue: Roy Harper . Since the mid-60s, the progressive folk singer-songwriter has enjoyed a successful solo career that’s also found him collaborating with everyone from Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel to Kate Bush and Ian Anderson. But he’s never quite reached the commercial heights of his peers. As his Final Tour: Part Two fast approaches, he looks back over highlights from his career so far and teases a brand-new album.

The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.

An album-by-album guide to George Harrison ’s greatest songs, solos, milestones and innovations away from The Beatles.

The album that TOM PETTY considered to be his career peak arrived during the most traumatic period of his life – as self-doubt, a broken marriage and record company wrangles threatened to engulf him. As a sumptuous new book illuminates Petty’s creative processes, former bandmates and collaborators hail his creative rebirth with Wildflowers. “It’s such a personal record,” one eyewitness tells Rob Hughes. “Brutal at times, but kind, deliberate and honest.”

The curious tale of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway on tour