Ahead of a new compilation of James Brown shows, Robert Webb lists the best live records

His beloved black Fender Stratocaster is expected to fetch £125,000 at auction

A group of leading musicians has called on Russia's president Vladimir Putin to give a fair hearing to members of a punk band facing prison for performing a “legitimate protest”.

Tributes pour in for Bert Weedon, the British musician whose tutorials inspired a generation

In the mid-1960s, the emergence of the powerful Marshall amplifiers enabled musicians to turn up the volume – and effectively transformed pop music into rock.

The rock world has promised to "crank it up to 11" to mark the death of Jim Marshall, the "Father of Loud", whose groundbreaking amplifiers gave the gift of extreme volume to generations of guitar heroes.

Jim Marshall, whose guitar amplifiers were used by some of the biggest names in rock, has died aged 88.

The self-styled Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure has another project on the go: his own movie. Chris Stevenson meets John Otway

An album signed by John Lennon hours before he was shot dead has fetched £23,750 at auction.

If Tommy was made of bricks and mortar it would be Grade I listed by now. The tale of the deaf, dumb and blind kid with messianic tendencies is heritage rock, as safely establishment as the Albert Hall itself.

Pete Townshend wishes he had never joined The Who.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary re-release of The Who Live at Leeds, Elisa Bray looks at the history of one of the greatest live albums ever, while musicians choose the albums that define the genre for them

1960 The birth of an icon