The unusual synth-pop track 'Temporary Secretary,' from Paul McCartney's second solo album is the one that made a fan of up-and-coming musician Arooj Aftab.

One such diversion came out ten years ago this month as Smith and his bandmates appeared on a mammoth tribute album to Paul ...

Birds. Both beautiful creature and apt for metaphor. That's why the animals have over the years been excellent subjects for ...

The singer has joined forces with his son to record a new album. He talks to Mark Beaumont about their need to record ...

We explore how boredom led to Ringo Starr writing his first Beatles song (and how it would foreshadow music he'd make decades ...

It's been a low-key part of his career since his Beatle beginnings, so it was not a serious swerve for him to make a whole ...

Rokia Traoré began releasing music in the 1990s and has had a varied output that draws from all of the disparate traditions of Mali’s musical history.

Al Stewart’s band, The Empty Pockets, have released a pair of singles, covering Stewart and The Beatles, both recorded at ...

As Duff McKagan put the finishing touches on his 2023 solo album “Lighthouse,” he was happy with its sound, a kind of ...

Yola released her anthemic new single “Symphony,” from her forthcoming EP My Way. Drawing influence from progressive R&B, ...

FRANK Skinner MBE Loves his job. And he has no intention of retiring - it's no laughing matter. He's good at it.. He knows it and audiences who have grown up with him know it, too. It's an ongoing ...

There’s never been another band quite like Van Halen, and there almost certainly never will be again. They embodied so many ...