Martin Barre MCNIDDER & GRACE

Thirty years after its release, Billy Corgan looks back at the making of The Smashing Pumpkins ’ era-defining big, bold, bombastic masterpiece Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness .

He turned down Hendrix, butted heads with Lemmy, was saved from a bad trip by Pete Townshend, present at a thousand pop-culture flashpoints… Ten Years After bassist Leo Lyons explains why he’s like “the rock’n’roll Forrest Gump”.

WHEN LILY ALLEN RETURNED WITH WEST END GIRL , HER FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM, THE WORLD COULD TALK ABOUT NOTHING ELSE. THE OPEN MARRIAGE, THE DOJO, MADELINE! NOW, IN THE WAKE OF HER MOST SUCCESSFUL RELEASE YET, SHE INVITES LOTTE JEFFS OVER FOR TEA TO DISCUSS HOW IT CHANGED HER FOR THE BETTER

Kittie’s leader on childhood bar gigs, female rage… and why beautiful bitches always know best

From Black Sabbath awakening to jam band to Hanoi Rocks to decades-straddling solo artist, via Finland, London, NYC and beyond, he’s been up, down and up again, through thrills, spills, triumph and tragedy. You could say he’s really lived the rock’n’roll life, but that would be an understatement.