With Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain having recently announced his retirement from live work, a number of rock’s ageing drummers have been speaking to the Guardian about the unique difficulties many of ...

But what about the less-conflicted children of Woodstock? The beer-drinkers and hell-raisers, the clock-punching ham’n’eggers in dirty denim, living for the weekend? What was the colour of hoi polloi ...

Deep Purple's Machine Head was plagued with problems from the beginning. "It's a project that almost got destroyed before it even got started," bassist Roger Glover says in a very matter-of-fact ...