American bands like Guns N’ Roses, Aerosmith, and The Black Crowes are built on the foundation of 1960s British rock bands. The punk bands, too. In 1970s New York, the groups emerging from Max’s ...

Musician John Mayall, often referred to the “godfather of the British blues,” whose bands of the late ’60s and early ‘70s featured some of the most notable rock instrumentalists of the era, died ...

Less than a decade after it had been forged in the white heat of the late 60s, British rock was in trouble. Its original pioneers had either split up, lost touch with reality or were spiralling into ...

George Harrison was among the cultural icons who became a devotee of Granny Takes a Trip - Paul Quezada-Neiman/Alamy For a short period in the Sixties when London was, allegedly, swinging, and all ...

Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull, who collaborated with everyone from Metallica to Jean-Luc Goddard and famously dated Mick Jagger during the late 1960s, has died. She was 78. Faithfull is best ...

DRUMS WEEK 2025: Nothing exists in isolation or appears out of thin air and this is true of the British drummers who changed rock to hard rock, leading eventually to heavy metal. Bill Ward, John ...