The ’60s pop star, ’70s troubadour and life-long spiritual seeker who can’t keep it in.

From Cheshire village halls to LA Babylon, he’s the obsessive music fan who rode the Hammond grooves of The Charlatans through baggy, Britpop and beyond . But how has his band remained together through 37 years of chaos and tragedy as well as triumph? “We had to get used to heaviness,” says Tim Burgess .

Wilco dynamo’s fifth solo LP is a wildly eclectic triple that celebrates collective creativity and freedom.

Theatre: The Lady from the Sea Bridge ...

As THE WHO hit the road, perhaps for the last time, after another drummer-oriented crisis, they reboot Who Are You – KEITH MOON' s arduous yet fascinating swan song. With punks at the gate, scraps in the studio and Townshend's demons flaring, it was already hard going. Then came their drummer's tragic implosion. "We all were traumatised," discovers TOM DOYLE .

A new series sees Rob Brydon journey around the southern states of the US to discover the origins of country music