Monsters of rock

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

With Scorpions’ 60th-anniversary celebrations in full swing, guitarist Rudolph Schenker and vocalist Klaus Meine look back at how the band went from being called ‘the worst German import since the V2 bomb’ in the UK to being their country’s officially lauded rock icons. With

1985’s Brothers In Arms reinvented Mark Knopfler’s songcraft and guitar style – and rewarded Dire Straits with more fame than they could handle. 40 years later, in a rare interview, the band look back on the biggest British rock album of the 80s

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Martin Newell is Britain’s most published poet, has been writing lo-fi pop songs for almost 50 years and can include Oasis legend Noel Gallagher among his fans. Yet you may not have heard of him. That