Couldn’t stand the weather

Neville Marten recalls interviews with one of his musical idols, the singer-songwriter supreme and total legend, the great JT himself

The instrument that featured on the cover of Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms is still very much in use.

Celine Dion, a tree made of coat hangers, Crufts… Thirty years after the startling experiments of Tilt defined SCOTT WALKER ’ s latter-day career, his collaborators reveal all about the idiosyncratic working practices that took him from teen idol to avant-garde hero. “It was almost like a rejection of his past,” one eyewitness tells Rob Hughes. “Almost like anti-music.”

The groundbreaking LA band’s much-sampled path through rock, soul, jazz, funk and beyond

Thirty years ago, Marillion released their final album on EMI, their first not to reach the UK Top 10. Afraid Of Sunlight has since been hailed as one of the band’s greatest recordings, but tragedy lay at its heart, even though it kickstarted their career as one of the most successful independent groups. The band recall the challenging times that threatened their career and, at times, their sanity.

AFTER HOTEL CALIFORNIA, the Eagles’ massive 1976 album, saw them rise from country rockers to just plain rockers, Don Felder and his bandmates should’ve been on top of the world — but all was not well