Simon Neil leads a back on top Biffy ...

Wiry monochrome intensity from indie veterans fully focused on the present

All Saints singer Melanie Blatt admits she made mistakes in her early career, but says all she wants from life now is “peace and happiness”. A member of the girl group alongside Shaznay Lewis and sist

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...”

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.”

‘Music holds the power to transform a life,’ says the multiple Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Jacob Collier. ‘It transformed mine! Experiencing music from within, by singi