Sabotage Times, We can't Concentrate so Why Should You?

I first met Kanye West when he was touring with his debut album in 2004. He wasn’t a shy man and I couldn’t believe it when he started comparing the Black Panthers with the KKK.

A favourite on Nirvana’s tour bus, the legendary Heavy Metal Parking Lot documents a group of heavy metal music fans before a Judas Priest concert in 1986. The makers reveal how it was made.

The joyfully downbeat stories of everyday life penned by Cleveland, Ohio native Harvey Pekar, who died in July 2010, elevated comic books from pulp to literary fiction. Pekar portrayed himself as a world-weary curmudgeon but when I met him in 2003 he was much more than that…

He was Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious rolled into one. A befuddled punk prophet with a brilliant mind whose rise was as shocking as his fall. As lead singer of the Germs, Darby Crash presided over the birth of the L.A. punk scene in 1977 and signalled its demise with his suicide three years later.

Downing Benylin, touring with a transsexual and playing alongside Nazis - just your average fare for Sting and the boys during The Police’s early days in the Seventies.