Guardian Music — May 1986: Number 41 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of World and Folk musicOn his Radio 1 show, John Peel was just as likely to play dub, country, salsa, Afrobeat and Mongolian throat singers as he was Nurse With Wound B-sides at th... more info

Guardian Music — December 1977: Number 14 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicIf one had to nominate a single individual who nurtured and promoted independent music, that person would surely be John Peel. In his late-night Radio 1 slot, th... more info

Guardian Music — November 1983: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicI wrote This Charming Man for a John Peel session. I just leapt out of bed and wrote it. It was the culmination of trying to find a way of playing that was non-r... more info

Guardian Music — Every band playing at this year's Glastonbury festival complete with stage timesPyramid StageFriday22:00 23:45 U220:00 21:15 Morrissey18:15 19:15 Biffy Clyro16:30 17:45 B.B. King15:00 16:00 Wu-Tang Clan13:30 14:30 Two Door Cinema Club12:05 13:00 Metr... more info

Guardian Music — 5 July 1972: Number 17 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of pop musicIn 1972, pop fans perhaps still dimly remembered David Bowie from his 1969 hit Space Oddity, but his star had since dimmed, and it took the creation of his alter ego... more info

The Vinyl Villain — The retuen of a series which will feature when I cant really come up with anything original to say or do. Loads of great acts went into the studios and recorded sessions for the John Peel Show over the years. Indeed there are blogs out there dedicat... more info

Guardian Music — Does it matter that pop music is stuck in the same old groove?Like many people of a certain age, the first thing I did upon going to university was to blow my entire student grant on records. Sixties French chansonnières, 30s Greek rembetika, seven-... more info

Totally Fuzzy — BBC Series exploring the dramas that lie behind some of the best-known bands. In the 60s young people in the UK were tired of pop and started listening to American blues. The British blues boom threw up two of the biggest bands of the late 60s an... more info

Guardian Music — Producer Chadburn works closely with Lowe to produce a lively Radio 1 show respected by listeners and artists alikeBroadcasters: Radio 1 DJ and producerOn air he sounds like the antithesis of his hero, the late John Peel, but Zane Lowe has inherited ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — A series that takes a fresh look at the last 30 years of pop history, using family trees compiled by music journalist Pete Frame to explore the dramas that lie behind some of the best-known bands. Fleetwood Mac, formed in 1967, have survived many d... more info