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The Rolling Stones circa 1968: Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Charlie Watts,

What are The Rolling Stones' biggest songs?

The Rolling Stones

Some of the most notable indie albums of 1983 from Pulp, New Order, Depeche Mode, U2, OMD and R.E.M.

The 25 best Indie albums of 1983

Classic rock stars and the age they "made it": Keith Moon, Ray Davies and Jim Morrison

How old were your favourite Classic Rock stars when they had their first hit?

The band called Slowdive in 1991, and the woman who sang a song called Slowdive, Siouxsie Sioux

All these bands named themselves after other people's songs

Tony Visconti recreates the cover of Ziggy Stardust in February 2007

10 notable albums produced by Tony Visconti

Huge streaming numbers for Coldplay, The Beatles, Queen and Arctic Monkeys

The Top 10 most-streamed English rock and indie bands

The Beatles, Prince, Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, Kate Bush and Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose

Earth Day 2025: 20 epic songs with nature in their titles

Some fine British debut albums from the wonderful 90s: The Sundays, Suede, PJ Harvey, Massive Attack, Oasis, Elastica, The Charlatans, Portishead, Stereophonics, Mansun, Inspiral Carpets and Muse

The 25 best British debut albums of the 1990s

The Stone Roses and their literary namesake from 1959, written by Sarah Gainham.

20 bands who took their names from classic books and literature

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