California’s sleaziest exports were always gloriously out of step with the times. Here are the cherries on their catalogue cake.

Playboy Manbaby: the American nightmare we all deserve ...

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

If a mod revival gets in full swing, this band hope to be on one of the front scooters.

I went to art school to be a painter. Mick Jones went to art school to put a band together. My friend was invited to try out as drummer for Mick’s band, London SS, and I went to support him. They drag