Martin Barre MCNIDDER & GRACE

31 JANUARY SATURDAY

With Joe Bonamassa having gathered the cream of the scene for the B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 tribute album – and written the intro to this feature – we take an alphabetised look back at the blues legend’s classic tracks, hotel bombings, car crashes, conspiracy theories, towering infernos and more…

After the success of fly-on-the-wall series The Bardsley Bunch, do you consider yourself an ex-footballer or a reality TV star these days? [Laughs] Both I suppose, but primarily I’m a businessman now.

Magic hexes, hotel robberies and cut-throat deals: band members and associates chronicle the heady days of 1972/73, when Led Zeppelin seized control of the industry and became the biggest rock band on the planet.

RICK ASTLEY on navigating fame, turning 60 and wowing at Glastonbury!