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AFTER A SESSION career that included credits with Keef Hartley, Toots & the Maytals and Steve Winwood (along with an appearance in the Beatles’ Help! movie as a child actor), by the late Seventies, Ju

Looking back, it’s funny to think we might have picked berries from the same bush. In the summer of ’59, those blackberries proliferated to the rear of The Bend, the most unlovely corner of an unfashi

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

For 60 years, HERBIE HANCOCK has taken the bonnet off music, hacking its valves and gears, forging a future as yet unseen. He shaped jazz and funk and synth-rock; Miles and Joni felt the benefit. Now he's a Polar Music Prize laureate. "I've always been this geek, this nerdy guy,"

With his cape and on-stage curry, he defined prog rock excess. Breakdowns, penury and near-death were the prices paid, but somehow the baroque synth lines and droll quips kept flowing… and still do. “I’m my own worst enemy,” laughs Rick Wakeman.

The Beatles came together in Liverpool in 1960 and in just ten years, until 1970 when they disbanded, they had changed the face of Western popular culture in ways that still strongly resonate to this