As he releases a tell-all book, the Punk magazine founder and self-described ‘fuck-up’ holds forth on 1970s excess, the American roots of punk and why the Beatles are ‘stupid’ ...

These pop icons from the 1980s transformed the music landscape for artists everywhere before passing down their talent to their creative kids.

Neil McCormick picks his favourite songs from pop’s most explosively abundant decade in our next instalment of Music of the ...