The Ivors Novello Awards take place tomorrow. We caught up with a few big names from the industry to get their songwriting tips and find out about their favourite lyrics... more
JB Priestley’s 1949 collection of short essays about things that delighted him has been updated by the members of the London Library. From girl bands to Bexhill-on-Sea, here six of them reveal their secret delights...... more
Ellie Greenwich, who co-wrote some of the Sixties' most famous pop records including River Deep, Mountain High and Da Doo Ron Ron, has died in NewYork aged 68... more
Novelist Jake Arnott is haunted by the ghost of the music producer whose life and shocking death in the gay underworld of Sixties London are the subject of a new film.... more
There's a pleasing irony in Eminem emerging from his Detroit stockade with a No 1 album, Relapse, the same week that the US's biggest motor manufacturer collapses. What's bad for GM is good for rap... more
I never took to Tony Blair at all. I was never impressed by his populist touch, nor was I sure that the benefits of a Labour government that sacrificed its principles to the free market could be outweighed by the gains to the British people... more
Staring into the police camera after his conviction for murder, a wild-eyed Phil Spector faces up to the reality of spending the rest of his life - and death - behind bars... more
Kaiser Chiefs had only 50 minutes to play at XFM Winter Wonderland, so they mixed'n'matched old and new songs and there are no prizes for guessing which went down best.... more
Glasvegas's hugely stirring rock songs will soon be bellowed by the same substantial, lad-heavy crowds as those in Arctic Monkeys and Oasis gigs, says David Smyth.
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Fifty years ago this week, Jerry Lee Lewis arrived in Britain and revealed his young companion was his 13-year-old wife, Myra. It destroyed the rock'n'roll sensation and set the pattern for decades of pop excess... more
Camille undoes preconceptions of French pop, The Breeders release their most accomplished and ambitious album and alto-sax genius Charlie Parker's legacy continues.... more
David Smyth predicts big things for Liverpudlian Candie Payne, talks about Kanye's latest hook-up and lets us know all that's new in online music.... more
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