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Vince Power, the veteran music promoter who died on Saturday aged 76, always made a point of refusing to wind down. Over the course of a career beginning with the opening of his first music venue the Mean Fiddler in 1982, an unglamorous but cosy Harlesden spot which hosted legends…

It was on Thin Lizzy's third album, Vagabonds Of The Western World, that "you really get to hear Phil the poet", says drummer Brian Downey

The British musician played with everyone from Peter Green to Freddie King and Ginger Baker yet never got the limelight he deserved

In a wide-ranging conversation with GW, Bell also acknowledges that he could never have returned to Phil Lynott’s band after an infamous onstage meltdown in 1973 – but at least he apologized to his beloved Strat for his behavior that night...

Some bands run out of juice towards the ends of their career. These bands and artists are the exception

The 78-year-old’s voice is still strong but his reworkings of early rock’n’roll tunes are more wily than wild

The Belfast musician is returning to where it all began... sounding as youthful as when he started out

Van Morrison takes ownership of an archipelago’s worth of his desert island discs on covers album Accentuate The Positive

US jazz bassist who worked with Van Morrison and Sarah Vaughan and later became a professor of bass at Wisconsin University

This companion piece to the Slough House series uncovers intrigue and corruption in the secret service, from 90s Berlin to the Cabinet office

Driving force of the Band, whose influential first album, Music from Big Pink, sent US rock music in new directions