They still don’t agree over the contents of their make-or-break 1997 album – except on one thing they did wrong ...

BMW has patents on two, bizarre three-cylinder engine designs meant to improve on the classic V-twin. One splays out the pistons in a fan shape, adds a cylinder to the traditional design.

Those two sides of paper would become the title track and a defining moment of the band’s ninth studio album, This Strange Engine. “I think it was an attempt to tell my father that I’d ...