THE ULTIMATE PLAYLIST COLLECTION

Classic 1980 rock albums: Back In Black, Peter Gabriel III, British Steel and The Game.

The 25 best Classic Rock albums of 1980

Amazing singles from the year of 1997, including tracks by Radiohead, Oasis, Blur, The Seahorses, Supergrass, The Verve, Embrace and more

The 25 best indie tracks of 1997

Queen on the set of the video for Radio Ga Ga, November 1983: John Deacon, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and Brian May

What are Queen's biggest songs?

Pink Floyd at their mid-1970s peak: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright

What are Pink Floyd's biggest songs?

Pink Floyd

Elvis Presley and manager Colonel Tom Parker signing with RCA in November 1955

The greatest managers in rock history

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

The best B-sides by Manchester bands

Some of the best Classic Rock debut albums from Patti Smith, Queen. Meat Loaf and Led Zeppelin.

The 25 best Classic Rock debut albums

Best videos of the 2000s

The best music videos of the 2000s

Blur invent Britpop in 1993 with a photo shoot for Modern Life Is Rubbish: amon Albarn, Alex James, Dave Rowntree and Graham Coxon

10 songs that ended an era... or began a new one

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