Lemmy formed the rock group Motorhead in 1975 and recorded 22 albums, including Ace of Spades, as he became one of music’s most recognisable voices and faces. The band said “Our mighty, noble friend Lemmy has passed away after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer.” Lemmy...
We have always been interested in Christmas music and last year we looked at Bing Crosby’s perennial ‘White Christmas’. There are, of course, numerous Xmas standards and I thought we’d have a change this year by looking at the special treatment given to some of them by Phil Spector. He gave,...
Former Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland was found dead on his tour bus in Minnesota. He was 48. Scott was on tour with his band The Wildabouts. His body was found around 9 PM. The source reads: “Police surrounded the bus, which was parked outside a motel near the venue where the...
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Prince appears to be taking a one-man stand against secondary ticketing. Tickets for his forthcoming Piano & a Microphone tour were due to go on sale Friday at 10am, but less than an hour beforehand, the ticket agency Ticketmaster announced a postponement. Since then, Prince’s Twitter feed...
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit against Taylor Swift, quoting the lyrics to some of her biggest songs. The singer was being sued for £27 million for allegedly stealing the lyrics for her song Shake It Off.
US R&B singer claims Swift stole the words from a song he wrote back in 2013...
Following news that Chester Bennington has left Stone Temple Pilots, Joss Stone has teamed up with the band for a one-off performance.
“The Joss Stone Temple Pilots” performed “Interstate Love Song” on a television show as part of the show’s Mash-Up Mondays segment...
Children in Need: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Celeb Covers show all Stars including Justin Bieber, Rita Ora and Ellie Goulding have joined forces for a Children In Need photography project.
The singers attempt to recreate Queen’s famous Bohemian Rhapsody poses in a series of new snaps.
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A guitar which belonged to Beatles singer John Lennon has been sold at an auction in California for £1.5m. The former Beatles singer played the guitar for about a year before swapping it with his band mate and guitarist George Harrison. It then disappeared before mysteriously resurfacing last Year...
Sadly we lost these talented people from the music world recently. Christopher Jackson, 67, Canadian musician, lung cancer. Jamie Prefontaine, 30, Canadian musician (Winnipeg’s Most). Ben Cauley, 67, American trumpet player and singer (The Bar-Kays). Franz Surges, 57, German composer and...
With their first English festival appearance in more than a 10 years, The Dandy Warhols recently headlined Standon Calling in what was a great return for the band. Lead singer Courtney Taylor, talks about how the recording industry has changed over the past 20 years and why physical music stores...
My Singing Lessons have inside information that the sound man on the mixing desk for Kanye West at Glastonbury on Saturday night made a major error when he inadvertently forgot to turn on the singers auto tune at the right point. If you have been lucky enough to avoid Kanynes abysmal singing effort...
The SongLab is a pop focused Production and Publishing company. We host quarterly pop writing camps between Artists, Writers and Producers which act as a development ground for further opportunities in the music industry. We’ve run two successful camps this year so far and we’ll be holding...
Florence and the Machine will headline the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury this yr, following Foo fighters’ withdrawal from the Friday night time slot. “once we heard… The Foo’s had been forced to pull out, there used to be only one individual we wanted to call and that was Florence,”...
We certainly never dreamn’t it would happen but it seems the bad feeling between the band is water under the Bridge. So dust down your combats because The All Saints are making a come-back twenty years after they first started.
The ladies have launched a teaser trailer offering...
