Lost minds

An engaging look back at an inspiring backstory through the eyes of the band's founding friends

A state of the nation address from the Stones frontman

The greatest movies that have disappeared off the map

The band explain how they created their opulent, psychedelic masterpiece, A Kiss In The Dreamhouse

There’s a lot to be said for the charisma of premature death. And the manner of his particular dying – turning blue on a motel floor at the age of 26, his heart fatally faltering, ice cubes being stuffed up his ass in a pathetic attempt to bring him back from the brink after one binge too many – booked Gram parsons an automatic place of honour in a rock’n’roll Valhalla already overcrowded with dead young heroes, Jimi, Janis, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke and more already among its spectral population when Gram died in September, 1973.

Five-disc box of demos, sessions and lost album

The 30 best reissues of the year

The country veteran teams up with Margo Price

The Boston indie-rock luminary on the records that don’t bring her down

“Everything he turned to worked.”