Simon Neil leads a back on top Biffy ...

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

The hills are alive with the sound of rock’n’roll.

A choir on one of Germany’s Big Four thrash bands’ new album? “We always did our own thing.”

In the wake of Peter Gabriel’s departure, GENESIS faced an existential question: carry on, or call it a day? Looking back 50 years, band members revisit the fraught months after their first frontman’s exit – and the creative surge that set the scene for one of rock’s most improbable second acts. “The band was meant to be dead and buried,” learns Peter Watts. “But we refused to lay down and die.”

The magic of Ritchie and Ronnie, spread across nine CDs.