All-female punk band L7 made an X-rated impression on TV audiences with their first and last appearance on UK television in 1992.

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Melts are a band from Dublin that sound like the missing link between Joy Division and The Horrors, blending big post-punk guitars with psychedelic flourishes of organ and the detached vocals of Eoin Kenny.

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Excuse the sentimentality but Patti Smith wrote this song as an elegy for a previous Pope, so it seems a suitable epitaph for Francis, who died today.

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Keith Levene re-imagined and re-recorded PiL’s unreleased fourth album in 1984 as the mainly instrumental Commercial Zone.

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Colosseum were a prog band formed by former members of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and the Graham Bond Organisation. This was their only single.

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Farewell to a musical legend of the early ’60s who grew up in my back yard of Stoke Newington, and found success in the pre-Beatles era with Joe Meek, North London’s own DIY Phil Spector.

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Rave duo Altern 8 took Acid House and Rave culture into the charts in the early ’90s with their blend of outrageous outfits and infectious dance tunes.

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Max Romeo’s career spanned the early days of ska through rocksteady to fiery roots reggae with a political conscience, peaking in the mid-’70s.

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West Coast rappers Luniz had a moment in 1995 with this playful weed-smoking anthem, I Got 5 On It, a million-seller in America that also reached No.3 in the UK singles chart.

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All Saints were the cool rivals of The Spice Girls and topped the charts for the first time with their debut single Never Ever in 1997.

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