This portrait explains the roots of a pain that Clapton’s successful career did little to extinguish

Fans are angered by provocative images of the US president in the Pink Floyd man’s Us + Them tour

The great American musician on his love of Ireland and the Trump song he can’t write

‘Joshua Tree’ 30th anniversary shows outsell Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga tours

Don’t expect freewheeling revelation when disgraced cyclist comes to the RDS

Neil Young, Roger Waters and The Who complete Desert Trip line-up of old rockers

Just when you thought you had the Brooklyn band pegged as cheerful throwback pop, their second album comes along and takes you by surprise

Who is David Gilmour’s favourite lyricist? Why are film adaptations inferior to the books? Can poetry replace liturgy? All these questions and more were answered in Co Carlow

The writer of ‘The Kindess’ has lived a life – featuring Pink Floyd, grief, motherhood and a tumultuous family history – that’s a novel in itself

Scottish-born guitarist described by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters as ‘probably the most musically gifted bass player who’s ever been’

Review: This list of shelved or abandoned albums by the likes of Pink Floyd, Prince and U2 offers little to write home about

Eddie Vedder, Rihanna and more enter the war zone

Chief executive Jim Brown is confident the bank will be back in the black in 2014 and is open to discussions about plans for a ‘third force’

American Studies Association says move is ‘in solidarity with scholars and students deprived of academic freedom’

19 hours to prepare pitch, scrub stadium and flip Aviva from soccer to rugby

Close to 75,000 music fans set to attend 17 concerts at venue in June and July

They have a combined age of well over 1,000, combined record sales of more than one billion, and they’re all coming here on tour in the next few months