In late nineteen sixty five the Beatles were famous enough to sell any record they liked, yet worried enough about their future to reinvent what an album could be. Rubber Soul was their response. Born from a throwaway remark about “plastic soul,” it fused folk, soul and pop, turned the studio into a playground, and quietly rewrote the rules of rock music.

On 8 December 1980 a cold Monday that began like any other ended in global shock. John Lennon spent the day posing for Annie Leibovitz, giving an optimistic radio interview and working on Walking On Thin Ice before returning home to the Dakota, where Mark David Chapman shot him. The loss rippled across the world, culminating in one of the largest public vigils New York had ever seen.

When Nick Cave, Mark E Smith and Shane MacGowan met for the 1989 NME Pop Summit, the pub table shook with insults, strange philosophy, unsolicited theology and genuine admiration. A wonderfully unfiltered moment between three artists who dragged rock away from the dying days of the eighties.