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Fleetwood Mac and Humble Pie were a part of the progressive 1960s ethos that carried successfully into the 1970s and beyond. These 1969 albums tell the story.

Including Andrew Trimble: For Ulster and Ireland, High Road Low Road and more

The XTC icon, who believes he owns the very best Japanese Telecaster ever built, is comfortable with coming from the “school of adequate” as a guitarist

IN FOCUS: Sixty years ago the Fab Four touched down in the US, greeted on the tarmac by fainting fans and police cordons – but stateside success wasn’t always a sure thing. Mark Beaumont chronicles the extraordinary, inimitable series of chance events that secured these scouse mop-tops a permanent place in America’s heart

Ephraim Hardcastle: Bill Wyman blames Second World War rationing for the short stature of himself and fellow Rolling Stone Brian Jones (both 5ft 6in).

Radio X looks at some of the most memorable movers and shakers in music.

British Invasion, musical movement of the mid-1960s composed of British rock-and-roll groups whose popularity spread rapidly to the United States. The bands included the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Troggs, the Searchers, the Dave Clark Five, Herman’s Hermits, and the Spencer Davis Group.

Ninety years after its invention, the giant ‘mechanical wonder’ that suffused rock with majestic awe and feeling is still going strong

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This compilation gathers more than 90 pop songs that soundtracked the period