Bobby Bluebell’s thriving third act, ‘80s Glasgow and the gift that keeps on giving

Dubmaster Dennis Bovell has had 50 fun-filled years making magical records

Rick Wakeman once signed a contract guaranteeing he’d wear “at least one cape onstage”

10cc’s I’m Not In Love is still weird & wonderful! - plus Kneecap & Carol Kaye

When Peter Hooton, the Farm & Eric Cantona played Clash songs in an amphitheatre

Budgie of Siouxsie And The Banshees started out in nightclub cabaret acts, aged 13

Carol Decker of T’Pau and the ocean-going world of the 80s package tour

The magnificent Sly Stone & Brian Wilson and the curse of our expectations

Why Oasis were God’s gift to the rock press and the story of two missing teeth

Elkie Brooks once opened for the Beatles. A lot happened in the next 65 years …

Why they MUST make the Cat Stevens movie + rock feuds, the best video & Beyoncé in a Stetson

Stuart Maconie – every character in the Beatles’ story has a story of their own

Inside the world of reissues with producer Rob Caiger

Genuinely ‘iconic’ rock pictures, words we should ban and how Freddie Mercury still makes headlines

Martha Wainwright - ‘never nervous, always ballsy’ and onstage from the age of eight

Books rock stars want you to read, sacked drummers and how Dylan spent his birthday

Dylan Jones bangs the drum for 1975, an explosion of talent and creativity

The great lost Beach Boys SMiLE album – David Leaf unravels rock’s Holy Grail

Dennis Greaves, Nine Below Zero – old-school R&B, police and thieves and the agony of white clogs

The best songs written in seconds, Lennon’s legs and Springsteen’s chimes of freedom

Mom Rock v Dad Rock, the Oasis rumour mill and Kanye West’s devious dentist

Peter Capaldi’s life in a teenage Glasgow punk band and a public apology to the Cocteau Twins

Alan Parsons recorded the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Steve Harley and some singing pigs

Dennis McNally saw the Summer Of Love in London, New York and California

Derek Shulman – when Simon Dupree and Gentle Giant were “the darlings of the English Mafia"

Al Murray and James Holland talk the ending of the war in 1945 and the afterlife of The Beatles

The entertaining fictions of Max Romeo and Robert Smith and tech that actually works!

Moon Zappa remembers life with her father Frank. ‘Pagan absurdists’ aren’t great parents

Daryl Hall – ‘60s soul session work, the right shoes and a barge trip with Bob Dylan

Rock star pilots, sacking Zak Starkey and bold pioneers of the psychedelic moustache

Dave Pegg, Fairport’s “longest-serving member” (fnarr!) looks back at hippie chaos and old heroes

Withering reviews of famous albums, Jaws versus Jeeves and the genius of Blondie’s Clem Burke

Seven ‘lost’ Springsteen albums, romance in sitcoms and the age of spectacle

Why Sparks’ Russell Mael preferred British acts to the ‘faux honesty’ of Laurel Canyo

Ed Tudor Pole – singer, actor, serial showman – saw the pop and punk wars as ‘pure theatre’

AI’s Word In Your Ear theme tune (!!), the four stages of showbiz & taking kids to concerts

Hearing 45 year-old records you’d never played, the least likely-looking person to become a rockstar

What Kate Mossman discovered about rock’s elder statesmen

How John Harris and his son found a life-changing connection through music

Mike Rutherford looks back at 60 years onstage and the art of cheap rock theatre

Mike Scott of the Waterboys remembers the shows that inspired him

The lost world of teenage love songs – and the best pop song ever written!

Nik Kershaw remembers Live Aid, snoods, fingerless gloves & a sudden male-female audience shift

Gang Of Four’s Jon King now sees the comedy in their endless self-sabotage

Has politics eaten entertainment? What’s ‘perfect sound’? Plus Brian James & how to make a speech

Film-maker Denny Tedesco on dad’s old band The Wrecking Crew and new doc “Immediate Family”

Lennon & McCartney seen in a fresh, stirring and original new light by Ian Leslie

The threat of AI, the appeal of Gene Hackman & the filthy glamour of Exile On Main St

Graham Fellows, “the comedy of the underdog” and inventing John Shuttleworth and Jilted John

Eternally cool rock stars, the Bond takeover and remembering Rick Buckler

Justin Hayward – ‘60s package tours, lost profits & the highpoint of the Moody Blues

Your guided tour of David Bowie’s London with Paul Gorman’s stories about its key locations

Eddi Reader - busking, singing radio jingles and “men you put on the shoulder-pads for"

Why all great pop stars are cartoons, Bowie doing mime and people whose voices we’ve never heard

Bob Marley in London, Chappell Roan’s outburst & records that sound best in the dark

The rise of David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars through the eyes of Woody Woodmansey

So Long, Marianne Faithfull plus the Shipping Forecast as read by Nick Cave

Did Britain invent the rock band? - plus our new laws about music & Garth Hudson RIP.

Howard Jones has ‘the best job in the world’.

Andy Fairweather Low’s teenage psychedelic stardom