Sixto Rodriguez was an incredible songwriter who changed the world, but his love for music started with Mexican folk music.

While working on a side-project with Robert Williams, The Stranglers frontman, Hugh Cornwell, cut a bizarre number with Devo's Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh.

Led Zeppelin made a rock god of vocalist Robert Plant, but his early solo career in the 1980s marked a complete departure ...

Legendary British musician Paul Weller has announced his new album, 'Find El Dorado', which features The Jam frontman taking ...

Cigarettes After Sex was created as a way of channelling moments of idle romanticism into music, like being lazy in bed, thinking about love lost and gained.

Frank Zappa has always had an unusual perspective on the music of others, but he surprisingly thought one of his favourite bands wouldn't be for UK listeners.

Kate Bush's breakout single 'Wuthering Heights' made history, but it was inspired by another groundbreaking piece of art from Emily Brontë.

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine wrote 'Peace Sells' after being inspired by a story by Patti Smith in 'Reader's Digest' about the concept of nobody buying peace.

Paul Schrader had an awful experience making 2014's 'Dying of the Light' which was taken away from him and re-edited into something he could only disown.

Marilyn Monroe felt betrayed by Laurence Olivier on the set of 'The Prince and the Showgirl,' because she felt he didn't believe in her method acting.

A look at how tough it was to be in The Strokes for the members, with particular focus on the six-year hiatus between their third and fourth albums.

As Paul Simon became more and more uncomfortable with his position in the music world, he wrote this storytelling track to make it all stop and decry himself.