An engaging look back at an inspiring backstory through the eyes of the band's founding friends

Before Melody Maker swept me off the street in the manner of a benevolent old codger taking a pallid waif into his kindly, white-haired care in something written to make you weep by the venerable Dickens, I worked for a bleak season or two in the mail order department of a bookstore near Piccadilly Circus.

Inaugural F1 event sees Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas and ZZ Top play in Singapore

Five-disc box of demos, sessions and lost album

Classics from pre-stadium bore period

Excellent compilation prefaces reissue of 10 classic, eccentric albums