Ten years after

First album of original material for eight years

Graceful examination of guilt and grief

Watching the fabbest of all fours in their first US press conference, puffing away on cigs and deflecting inane enquiries, you feel proud to be a Brit. "Sing something for us!" "No, we need money first." Could Justin Timberlake—or Julian Casablancas, for that matter—be half as sarcastic? Imagine waking from a 40-year coma and coming afresh to these extraordinary scenes: four scouse charmers off the plane with their matching suits and Pan Am shoulder bags.

America's most unforgiving musical satirist performs many of his classic songs in this solo European show

The rapturous romantics' classic third album makes waves again

The former Mrs Cobain emerges from rehab to release her debut solo album

Seattle songstress' magnificent fourth album finds her deep in fire and ice

Nico steals the show at Velvets' short-lived reunion

Imagine if the Doors, The Byrds or Love had, long after their late '60s heyday, reconvened to record a quartet of brilliant albums, the first a double LP of classic, even epic, proportions issued just months before punk broke.

A masterpiece of rap's golden age, now with second CD of extras