Red Rubber Ball

Sixty years after its release, The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds remains one of the most studied and influential albums in modern music, a record that reshaped studio production, elevated pop music's artistic ambitions and changed the trajectory of rock albums forever.

Sixty years on, The Rolling Stones landmark compilation Big Hits High Tide And Green Grass still defines the band's explosive early run, capturing Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and The Rolling Stones at the moment their singles began reshaping rock history.

The long-lost 1967 reunion album from one of New York's defining vocal groups is available again, restoring a key chapter in American pop history.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, the French actress, singer, model and activist whose presence reshaped cinema, popular music and the image of women in post-war culture, has died at her Saint-Tropez home La Madrague on 28 December 2025, aged 91.