When will the Beatles bandwagon end?
Anthology 4 makes the extraordinary band seem ordinary
Rock
Wednesday
Friday
The Spectator’s Music of the Year 2023
Our writers — and some venerable guests — offer their picks
Monday
Keef at eighty (Yes, really)
Celebrating the Stones icon
Monday
Stereophonic is a love letter to creation
It’s the story of a mid-Seventies rock band coming to terms with success
Monday
Mick Jagger at eighty: the beginnings of a Rolling Stone
No other major rock star is as obviously a product of his time and place as the Stones frontman
Sunday
Jenny Boyd goes beyond the muse
She was in the backstages, the bedrooms and the jam sessions with some of the most iconic musicians of all time
Thursday
Tina Turner was greater than a rock star
She was something much more universal: a survivor
Tuesday
Rock ’n’ roll Dolly Parton’s political wake-up call
Her new song is more fire and brimstone than climate anthem
Wednesday
When Salvador Dalí met Alice Cooper
‘All of a sudden this troupe of five androgynous midgets in pink chiffon floated in’
Friday
A fond remembrance of Meat Loaf
The singer once christened ‘the uncoolest man in the universe’ delivered Big Rock Drama in spades
Tuesday
An ode to Charlie Watts, the politest man in rock music
The Rolling Stones drummer was one-of-a-kind
Saturday
The Decemberists are the only band I adore who have a number of songs I actively despise
Part of what makes them special is the depth of their catalog
Tuesday
‘All rock ’n’ roll starts and ends with Lou Reed’
Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…
Wednesday
Land of hope and Victoria: The Kinks’ lost empire
By 1969, Churchill was dead and the Kinks, as an album group, were toast
Wednesday
Audio blitzkrieg
‘Motörhead, remember me now’
Saturday
Grandpa, who were the Rolling Stones, and why?
Raising the goblet of rock
Thursday
Paul Simon says farewell with a daring and inventive show
One of America’s greatest songwriters enchants London
