Ben Forrest

Having testified in front of the US Congress, been the subject of an assassination attempt, and shared stages with some of the most iconic musicians of all time, Frank Zappa was not an easy man to impress.

One of the reasons that supergroups are often less than the sum of their parts is that a great band isn't merely a collection of skilled musicians.

Here we are again; another seven days torn off the calendar as our march through this mortal coil continues.

Love songs have always been the lifeblood of pop music Entire careers have been built on singing about romance, heartbreak and longing, and few did it better than Frank Sinatra.

A World Cup without its accompanying soundtrack would be like a pub with no pints, a pie without peas, or the Egypt squad without Mo Salah: rubbish.

The defining moment of the counterculture era was Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock Festival, but it is often forgotten that he wasn't the only guitarist on stage.

Where would the music world be without the Eagles For starters, the music-buying public of the 1970s would have had to find something else

Northern soul is a scene that thrives on obscurity, but back in 1971 one of its key anthems ended up becoming an unexpected number-one on the UK singles charts.

Rendering the psychedelic god, Jimi Hendrix , awe-struck was a tall order back in the 1960s.

Siouxsie Sioux was a one-woman revolution during her heyday in the gothic landscape of late 1970s England, but the contributions of her surrounding Banshees is impossible to ignore.