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."

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

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Just as UFO seemed poised to take the next step up, their ace-card guitarist Michael Schenker quit. But instead of going to the pub to sulk, the hellraisers took off to the Caribbean and recorded belter No Place To Run without him.

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At the end of July, thousands of fans gathered for Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral procession in Birmingham. Some of them shouted “Ozzy forever!” The hard rock singer died 22 July 2025 at the age of 76.1 Afte