The Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton has been found dead at his Michigan home at the age of 60.

Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm is horrified by the idea his music has changed people's lives because the band's 'slacker' image may have encouraged fans to ditch ambitious career plans.

Fueled by the energy and rebellion of heavy metal, and tempered by the demons that hastened the reactionary blowback of grunge, Alice In Chains has forever been the source of myth and legend since first emerging from Seattle onto the national scene in 1990, on Columbia Records.