Kinks

In our exclusive Uncut interview, The Who guitarist explains how he urged them to tour America

Uncut presents 100 startling bursts of glory that revealed rock’s major players and revolutionised the world of music… Originally published in Uncut's August 2006...

Imposing new biography of the head Kink

As chosen by Roger Daltrey, Ray Davies, Brian Wilson, Alex Turner and more…

An all-star panel – including Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Terry Chimes – vote for the greatest songs Strummer and co ever recorded

The Led Zep guitarist on their "great body of work" and Robert Plant's "primeval wail"

Uncut meets the laureate of romantic gloom – at the time of interview, a highly disciplined Zen monk…

Meet the garage-rock wunderkind at the heart of California's psych scene

In Birdman, Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, a veteran film actor who is eager to rebuild his reputation. Like Keaton, Thomson is largely remembered for playing a superhero 25 years ago. And, like Keaton, he has spent much of the intervening quarter of a century explaining why he abdicated from that role – in Thomson’s case, Birdman 4; Keaton, meanwhile, turned his back on Batman.

Smashing Pumpkins frontman goes on the offensive during album promo...