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At the height of The Jam's success, the band commissioned 21-year-old freelance photographer Neil \"Twink\" Tinning to follow them around both in the studio and on the road and take reportage photos. The resulting shots appear in Rick Buckler and Zoe Howe's new book, The Jam 1982, which documents a year when the band were arguably the biggest in Britain, their splenetically intense gigs attended by a fanatical fanbase. Before an autumn tour taking in five Wembley Arena shows in December of that year, Paul Weller, 24, announced the band would split as \"I'd hate us to end up old and embarrassing like so many other groups do\". Here, Rick Buckler (left) takes us through a selection of Twink's best shots from a year when The Jam seemed to rule the Modern World.

Not Forgotten

Tom Verlaine and Lisa Marie Presley are fondly recalled

Memory Lane

Northern Irish icon has a blast reworking the music of his teens.

Tales Of The Unexpected

Luke Haines' 90s infamy revisited.

Iggy Pop – "I Can Take a Punch"

There are die-hard totemic musicians, and there's Iggy Pop, so reflective of rock's primal urges and irrepressible energies he could write the book and supply most of the images. His "ribald ruffian" of a new album, Every Loser, shows an artist still willing to take risks and not succumb, aged 75, to notions of growing old gracefully. Five decades since Raw Power, The World's Greatest Living Rock'N'Roll Star (TM) talks about that feral classic, working with Bowie then and, four years later, in Berlin, his surprise visit from Robert Plant, the nature of addiction, inventing punk, the impermanence of existence, oh, and his beloved cockatoo... "At certain points there are flare-ups," he warns Chris Roberts

Iggy Pop Special: Funtime

Credited to Iggy & The Stooges, Raw Power is, to some ears (usually bleeding), the greatest rock album of the early 70s, sheer sonic violence further enlivened by bids to "search and destroy". More than The Stooges' previous two albums, it captures the puressence of rock'n'roll while setting fire to the rulebook. With a little help from James Williamson, their guitarist, Johnnie Johnstone tells the story of its brief yet volatile making and impact following its release a half-century ago this month. And then, on p88, RC is granted an audience with the mighty Iggy Pop in which he traces his career from the band's 1973 landmark to his new solo album, Every Loser, concluding with a Stooges/Pop discography on p97. All aboard.

Jukebox Heroes

Continuing our ongoing survey of unusual formats, Simon Wright looks at the rise and fall of jukebox EPs and 'Little LPs'

Colin MacIntyre – No man is an island

Mull Historical Society mainstay Colin MacIntyre lifts the lid on his vinyl reissues and box set

Learning to love themself

New album Gloria finds Sam Smith testing new waters and exploring queer themes

Yungblud & Roger Daltrey

On staying fashionable in music, how ego ruined social media, and saying no fucking way’ to The Voice

Rosalia is playing her own game

How pop's most unconventional superstar made a name for herself

A Soul Stripped Bare – Joesef

Heartfelt lyrics, honey-soaked vocals and luxurious, spinetingling alt-pop are the order of the day for Joesef. Here, the stand-out Glaswegian singer-songwriter talks hurting, healing and his instinctive ability to smell bullshit from three towns over

Kanye's dark, twisted reality

Former Yeezy team members claim the rapper turned designer used porn, bullying and "mind games" to control his staff and that Adidas execs "turned their moral compass off"

"Self-love is not a destination it's a daily commitment to accept yourself"

Their mainstream appeal earned Sam Smith a slew of music awards, including an Oscar. Now, new album Gloria reveals a change in direction as they step into their queerness and care a lot less about what people think

10 Days in Hell: Our Russian Hostage Nightmare

Desperate to escape Ukraine, we were captured, questioned, and held in a bunker. Then our teenage son tried to save us

[ Christine McVie, 1943-2022] Fleetwood Mac's Songbird

She was an oasis of sanity in pop’s most dysfunctional family and a universally beloved piano woman who wrote and sang decades of unquestionable classics

Caroline Polachek Wants You to Feel Something

Inside the globe-trotting, rave-going, expectation-defying sessions for the avant-pop star’s new LP

One in a MILLIONS

Russ Millions is commercial drill personified. As he releases new mixtape One of a Kind, the first artist from the genre to have a number-one hit contemplates his art and his ongoing desire to make fans want to move

WELCOME TO THE LITTLE BROTHER HOUSE

We remember Teen Big Brother, Channel 4's controversial 00s 'experiment' as ITV2 brings the landmark original show back to our screens this spring

From the HEART

AS THOMAS SABO release the second wave of their new brand, Saboteur, the man behind the eponymous label reveals what inspires their designs

RSİ ROAD TEST

This SUV from a sports and supercar marque is, says its maker, \"a sabre in a sector of sledgehammers\". Which, however poetic, undersells it by quite some margin

Karen O & Michelle Zauner

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Japanese Breakfast frontwomen on the power of 'no', growing up Korean American, and the joys of smashing stuff

Trueno & Nicki Nicole

Argentina's favourite couple sit down in Buenos Aires and talk about everything that has connected them personally and artistically

THE PEOPLE ARE IN TROUBLE

Alex Lawther's writing and directing film debut is a fictional tale of love set in a time of climate collapse that is rooted in reality

RAYE: IN FULL CONTROL

Having shaken off the shackles of a seven-year contract without a debut record, Raye is savouring a number-one single and the freedom that comes with dropping her long-awaited first album, as she tells Rolling Stone UK

Chloe x Halle the Isley Brothers

Two of pop's great sibling acts on finding inspiration, and trying not to annoy each other

To the beat of time

How Swiss watch brand Audemars Piguet played a crucial part in preserving 55 years of stand-out performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival

Rina Sawayama & Shania Twain

On loving their queer fans, the challenges of autobiographical songwriting, and what they learned from difficult childhoods

Jennifer Coolidge

The White Lotus star on late-in-life fame and being like a security guard