The Stories Behind The Songs

The line-up of Pixies that made Doolittle: Black Francis (vocals and guitar), Joey Santiago (guitar), Dave Lovering (drums), and Kim Deal (bass)

Why Pixies' Monkey Gone To Heaven is the greatest song about the environment

Pixies

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

20 bands who took their names from classic books and literature

Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner

Arctic Monkeys' Brianstorm at 18: The story behind the thunderous anthem

Arctic Monkeys

Classic albums from the classic year of 1971: Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Who and Led Zeppelin.

The 25 best Classic Rock Albums of 1971

Great music videos: November Rain, Sledgehammer, Ashes To Ashes and Another Brick In The Wall.

The 10 greatest Classic Rock music videos

James Dean Bradfield in the video for Manic Street Preachers' A Design For Life

How A Design For Life gave Manic Street Preachers a new start

Manic Street Preachers

The Best Albums Of 2014 including Kasabian, Paolo Nutini, The Black Keys, Catfish & The Bottlemen and Wild Beasts.

The 25 best albums of 2014

Blur in May 1991: Alex James, Dave Rowntree, Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn

This Blur interview from 1991 is pure Britpop nostalgia

Blur

Blondie in 1976: Deborah Harry, Gary Valentine, Clem Burke, Chris Stein and Jimmy Destri.

10 classic hits that were actually cover versions

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