Fifty years on, PATTI SMITH ’ s visionary debut Horses has lost none of its defiance and power. Here, Smith’s long-serving lieutenant LENNY KAYE recalls her emergence as the noble warrior poet of rock’n’roll, and the making of this incantatory album – tracing its creative arc from St Mark’s Church to a rehearsal room in Times Square, the stage at CBGB and, finally, the hallowed confines of Electric Lady Studio A. “We kept pushing it further out there,” he tells Nick Hasted

The punk rock landmark that keeps on giving celebrates half a century with an expanded anniversary edition produced by bassist Tony Shanahan.

John & Yoko/ Plastic Ono Band Power ...

No one notices Bruce Springsteen. He makes no effort to hide—black T-shirt, blue jeans, Wayfarer sunglasses, honky-tonk cowboy boots—but for a few minutes, the most famous son of the Jersey Shore achi

Between 1971 and 1973, JOHN LENNON and YOKO ONO fought to realise their dreams of a better society and, as their friends and peers relate, courted danger from every side. Now collected, augmented and remixed in the new Power To The People box set, the music they made to further their aims speaks to a similarly polarised, and febrile age.“It was really ahead of its time,”

Live and “on fire”.