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Daring and masterful: late-flowering Plant blooms anew...

They were there first – again. Man vs record business, the opera...

As AC/DC announce Malcolm Young's retirement and the release of a new album, Rock Or Bust, we look back at the life of former frontman Bon Scott in a piece taken from Uncut's December 2013 issue (Take 199). A street poet who’d been inside for ‘carnal knowledge’? A teenybop idol and hippy seer? A tearaway who swam with jellyfish and rode motorbikes naked? “A fantastic guy, a real human, so different to what people thought…” Words: Peter Watts _________________________

Pink Floyd have released a 30-second teaser trailer for their upcoming album 'The Endless River'. Click below to watch.

A sculpture of Eleanor Rigby made of £1m of used bank notes has gone on display in Liverpool. Created by Liverpool-born sculptor Leonard Brown, the five foot two inch figure of the fictional star of the Beatles song of the same name is made of thousands of shredded £5, £10 and £20 notes, which were supplied by the Bank Of England in the form of pellets.

The Doors’ documentary Feast Of Friends, which the band filmed themselves on their 1968 summer tour, will be released next month. The documentary, which was never completed, was screened at film festivals during Jim Morrison's lifetime, but has never been formally released due to legal issues.

Among my post last week, I received a nice care package from Ace Records that included one quite weird Duke Ellington album ("My People"); Volume 3 of their "Where Country Meets Soul" series (I cannot recommend Ralph ''Soul'' Jackson's version of ''Jambalaya'' highly enough); and, maybe best of all, "Cracking The Cosimo Code", a collection of extraordinary music originating from Cosimo Matassa's New Orleans studio in the 1960s.

U2’s shock-released new album, Songs Of Innocence, is largely themed around the band’s childhoods and adolescence in Dublin, according to Bono. Well, here’s what came next… This is the full story, as told by those who were there, of U2’s rise from indie hopefuls to becoming the Biggest Rock Band On The Planet. Written by Stephen Dalton, and originally published in Uncut’s December 1999 issue (Take 31).

Robert Plant launched his new album lullaby and…The Ceaseless Roar with a show that also featured five Led Zeppelin classics at London’s Roundhouse as part of iTunes Festival on Monday (September 8).

Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin, his solo career and more...