Big Big Train cofounder Gregory Spawton on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.

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 .

After decades of feuding and fall outs, Chris and Rich Robinson, aka The Black Crowes , have found a groove of brotherly love and rock bravado.

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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

By the time I’m 16, I am starting to develop a certain aesthetic revolving around beat literature and beat poetry. I’m starting to like Baudelaire, Rimbaud, so there’s a certain whiff of decadence in