Steve hillage and gong

It began with an escape from pop into progressive new horizons. And ended when the writing was on the wall.

THEY met as four year olds at a nursery school in Lanarkshire. Now as they prepare to enter the decade of their retirement, they’re recording their first album together. Best pals Stevie Rooney and St

A few years ago, Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr were interviewed for a BBC documentary about music’s messiest break-ups. Which may seem like an odd booking, given the pair’s famously adamantine bond. B

THE ERIC GALES we know today is undoubtedly a product of his environment growing up. In this case, as fate would have it, we’re talking about an incredibly musical family. Older brothers Manuel and Eu

You find yourself in a room. It is a bedroom, in fact, in Cheshire in the year 1966. Sitting in front of you are two teenaged boys. It is the year of England’s World Cup victory, and the two friends a

History decrees that TERRY REID missed the boat, to Led Zep legendhood, to solo riches. But, as he told BOB MEHR just two months before he passed, this great songwriter and supreme singer - loved and admired by superstars from Robert Plant and Graham Nash to Aretha Franklin and Dr Dre - didn't see it like that: "I've lived my life the way I wanted."