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Blur's Alex James with Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage inset

Blur's Alex James calls Glastonbury overrated and "a gory drugs bender"

Blur

The Rolling Stones circa 1977: Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Mick Jagger.

What are The Rolling Stones' 10 biggest songs?

The Rolling Stones

Arctic Monkeys' Matt Helders in 2023

Matt Helders at 40: Facts about the Arctic Monkeys drummer

Arctic Monkeys

Depeche Mode in 2005: Martin Gore, Dave Gahan and Andrew Fletcher.

What are Depeche Mode's 10 biggest songs?

Depeche Mode

The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood and Paul McCartney

The Rolling Stones say Paul McCartney "really wanted to jump in" on Foreign Tongues album

The Rolling Stones

Foo Fighters Dave Grohl, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Nate Mendel with Radio X's John Kennedy

Foo Fighters: "We still function like a band that plays in a f***ing garage"

Bands in movies, old and new: Foo Fighters in Studio 666, Ramones in Rock 'N' Roll High School, KISS in Phantom Of The Park and The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night.

10 bands that have acted in movies

The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood

The Rolling Stones confirm Foreign Tongues album and share brand new single In The Stars

The Rolling Stones

Anne Bancroft as Mrs Robinson with Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, 1967

The best songs about fictional characters

Mancunian masters of the b-side: New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses and more.

The best B-sides by Manchester bands

Steve Jobs launches the iTunes Store with some prophetic words

The worst decisions and predictions in the history of music

Final album covers from Nirvana, The Beatles, Joy Division, David Bowie, The Smiths and more

The "final" albums by the greatest artists

Ian Curtis, performing with Joy Division in Rotterdam in January 1980

What did Joy Division play at their last ever gig?

Joy Division

The Stone Roses: Alan 'Reni' Wren, John Squire, Gary 'Mani' Mounfield and Ian Brown.

10 things you didn’t know about The Stone Roses’ classic debut album

Robert Smith at the launch of The Cure's Disintegration album, May 1989

The making of The Cure's landmark Disintegration album

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl with Wicked For Good poster inset

Foo Fighters’ Your Favorite Toy album was originally titled For Good before Wicked film clash

The Black Keys press image

The Black Keys add third London date to 2026 UK leg of their Peaches 'n Kream Tour