Only a few months after the death of Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love made her first public appearance on stage at Reading Festival, channelling her grief into power.

This week, Ethel Cain has found herself embroiled in controversy.

Discover the final song to reach one million sheet music sales — and how shifting formats changed the way we consume and preserve music forever.

For the making of one album, The Cure strictly locked themselves away with no external distractions, no other people and no other stimulus to throw them off.

As a key part of the CBGB scene, Clem Burke witnessed the birth of musical icons. But out of the whole crowd, these two albums stood out as his favourites.

After a tough decision between two drummers in the audition room, Paul McCartney left the decision of who would join Wings up to fate with a coin toss.

Julia Roberts was a huge Hollywood star by the time she made Notting Hill in 1999 but there was still a line she cringed at having to say to Hugh Grant ...

Don Henley has a classic string of hits to his name, but one in particular almost got lost forever due to an unfortunate technology accident. Read more here.

The Edge, of course, tells the story slightly differently, saying that it only took him a couple of days away from U2 to realise “this stuff was bullshit,” but still: the deliberation itself almost ...

A look at Keith Richards and the way he makes his solo albums, where he remains at his heart a collaborator, despite them being his creative vision.

"Your music will never be more or less than you are as a human being," Nadia Boulanger told Quincy Jones. From then, he vowed to only bring authenticity.

Pink Floyd man David Gilmour picks out the very best American artists. Here, he names the best album ever made.