The Latest Breaking News from John Paul Jones

Jazz-schooled bassist Chris Chaney has now secured three career-defining gigs – first with Alanis Morissette and Jane’s Addiction, and now with AC/DC

Ever since she lied about her age to save for her first electric guitar, Lita Ford has been all about lead and leading. She looks back at life-changing encounters with Tony Iommi and Ritchie Blackmore, and explains why Kemper profiling is like “putting a Rolls Royce into a Volkswagen body”

"We looked at each other and took a very deep breath" - Nancy Wilson on performing Stairway To Heaven in front of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones

Of all their records, Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, released in late 1971, remains their most admired work

Armed with years of experience as a session bassist and arranger – having worked with the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and the Rolling Stones – John Paul Jones could do it all

The legendary producer/engineer looks back on a career spent recording with icons, and an era in which Hendrix was writing musical history in real time with a Fender Stratocaster

Laine’s playing lit up the sound of the Moody Blues and Wings. Here, we look at 10 of the best from the man Paul McCartney described as an “outstanding vocalist and guitar player”

In the early '70s, Jones was poised to take a step back from his role as the band's bassist – and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant eyed up The Runaways lead guitarist as a potential successor

From Cream and ELP to Temple Of The Dog and Velvet Revolver, these are history’s greatest supergroups

In early 1970 Jimmy Page had a concept for an epic song that “would unravel in layers as it progressed”. More than five decades on, Stairway To Heaven still has a hold on its writers and the world

The historic 1968 contract between Atlantic Records and Jimmy Page has been uncovered