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 .

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Danny Bryant has survived alcoholism, divorce and liver disease. The British bluesman and bandleader tells us that his new album Nothing Left Behind is just the exorcism he needed.

He’s lived it live and dangerous as part of the classic line up of Thin Lizzy, lived it loud in Motörhead, ridden his own band Wild Horses, has an impressive list of credits as both session musician and producer… There’s much more to Robbo than you probably think.

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The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax