The Allman Brothers hit their instrumental peak with In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, recorded for their 1971 album Live At Fillmore East.

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Free were in the vanguard of the blues-rock revolution that chnged the face of British music in the late 1960s.

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The Stones return, more than 60 years after their arrival, with an irresistible slice of vintage rock’n’roll.

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This is my favourite track on my favourite live album, recorded by The Velvet Underground in 1969 at a San Francisco club called The Matrix.

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Anika has carved out a niche as a kind of modern-day Nico, bringing glacial cool to her dub-infused electro music.

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Scottish funkster Jesse Rae might not have made a name for himself but he did write the huge hit Inside Out for Odyssey.

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Bodega are the archetypal hipster band. They’re like an updated version of The Strokes, but without the privilege and PR overkill.

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15-16-17 were, as the name suggests, three teenage girls from Jamaica who made their name singing lovers rock in late-1970s London.

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I loved this song, with its retro jazz vibe, when it came out in 1983 and I must still have the 12-inch single gathering dust in my vinyl collection.

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This was the signature song of the Marshall Tucker Band, who burned brightly in the Southern Rock arena for most of the Seventies, albeit mostly in their native USA.

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