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An album-by-album guide to George Harrison ’s greatest songs, solos, milestones and innovations away from The Beatles.

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Between 1971 and 1973, JOHN LENNON and YOKO ONO fought to realise their dreams of a better society and, as their friends and peers relate, courted danger from every side. Now collected, augmented and remixed in the new Power To The People box set, the music they made to further their aims speaks to a similarly polarised, and febrile age.“It was really ahead of its time,”

Fifty years on, PATTI SMITH ’ s visionary debut Horses has lost none of its defiance and power. Here, Smith’s long-serving lieutenant LENNY KAYE recalls her emergence as the noble warrior poet of rock’n’roll, and the making of this incantatory album – tracing its creative arc from St Mark’s Church to a rehearsal room in Times Square, the stage at CBGB and, finally, the hallowed confines of Electric Lady Studio A. “We kept pushing it further out there,” he tells Nick Hasted

A manifeste of musical and spiritual freedom, Axis: Bold As Love was JIMI HENDRIX ar his most exploratory, utopian. But as a new box set explores, notes of unease and psycho-autobiography cut through the Aquarian haze and freaky, proto-stereo FX, as the Summer of Love entered its more conflicted autumn. "It was all vivid colour," peers and Fhu tell MARK PAYTRESS, "with Jimi at the height of his powers."