Plight of the band has drawn international attention

Chart-topping metallers Black Sabbath crowned their comeback with a double win at a top rock awards event.

The heavy rock trailblazers have set a new UK chart record - and beaten Liam Gallagher's Beady Eye

The keyboard player and songwriter Ray Manzarek was a founder-member of the Doors, the Los Angeles group who seemed to embody the possibilities, contradictions and limitations of the rock medium more than any other in the late Sixties. The tall, professorial-looking musician exuded a gravitas commensurate with the dark, questing nature of the band's tours de force "The End", "When The Music's Over" and "Riders On The Storm" and with the fate that befell their shamanic frontman Jim Morrison, who died in mysterious circumstances in Paris in July 1971. This added to the mystique around the group, who have sold over 100m albums and been the subject of several documentaries, and Oliver Stone's biopic (Kyle MacLachlan portrayed Manzarek).

The 80s rocker has criticised the teenager for arriving late to the stage on tour

Former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr has died at the age of 56.

Former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr has died at the age of 56.

Consisting of eight tracks recorded in 2005 for Waiting for the Siren's Call, then kept in a cupboard while everyone decided what to do with them, Lost Sirens is the last New Order album to feature the bass and ego of Peter Hook.

After five decades, heavy metal’s most outrageous made-up men refuse to grow old gracefully. James McNair meets Kiss

Lawrence Hayward, former leader of Felt and Denim, is one of underground pop's true eccentrics.

A heavy metal tribute to Satan and a film about heroin addicts have been named the very best that Britain has produced, in a Diamond Jubilee poll.

They may not be the cultural highlights Her Majesty would have chosen to encapsulate her reign but a metallic tribute to Satan and a film about heroin addiction have been named the very best that Britain has produced, in a Diamond Jubilee poll.

The second album seems a little soon for Rumer to be pulling the covers over her head.

Moray – with his bleeps and beats approach to trad folk – has never been afraid to attract attention.