Australian music legend Stevie Wright died 12 months ago today.

U2 have some big plans for 2017 in the 30th anniversary year of 'The Joshua Tree'.

The horror that has been 2016 continued during the Christmas season with the deaths of George Michael on Christmas and Status Quo's Rick Parfitt on Christmas Eve.

George Michael's former Wham partner Andrew Ridgeley has led the tributes to George following the death of the British superstar on Christmas Day.

British superstar George Michael has died at age 53.

The John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John (aka FONJie) seasonal collaboration "Friends for Christmas" stays for a second week at the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week.

The Clean Bandit, Anne-Marie and Sean Paul track "Rockabye" is atop the ARIA Singles Chart for a fourth straight week, and now the last No.1 for the 2016 chart period.

Christmas Day, it is the day James Brown died.

Rick Parfitt, longtime vocalist and guitarist for Status Quo, has died at the age of 68.

Bruce Springsteen has released his performance from November 22, 2009 at Buffalo's HSBC Arena, a show that would turn out to be the final one for Clarence Clemons.

Mariah Carey can't wait to hop in her real-life reindeer sleigh in Colorado this Christmas (because that is apparently what people with too much money do).

Beyonce and Adele are bringing their superstar power to the stage for the 2017 Grammy Awards.

Pink and her husband Carey Hart are spending their first Christmas in the comfort of their own home because the singer is too pregnant to fly.

Lady Gaga isn’t interested in the business side of the music industry.

Trent Reznor and his all-new Nine Inch Nails, now with added Atticus Ross, has released the EP ‘Not The Actual Events’ a day before Christmas.

iTunes is proving that the music trend this Christmas is Christmas music.

UK electronic music producer Mura Masa has the most Shazamed song in Australia once again this week with ‘Love$ick’.

The Weeknd ‘Starboy’ maintains the top spot as the most streamed song in Australia again this week.

Clean Bandit has the most downloaded song in Australia this week and Mariah Carey has dropped off a little Christmas cracker.

Popstar Avril Lavigne has chastised Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg for picking on her estranged husband’s band Nickelback.

Star Wars star Carrie Fisher is in a critical condition after suffering a massive heart attack aboard a flight from London to Los Angeles.

Keyboardist Rick Wakeman is about to release an album that he has always dreamed of doing, a full solo piano album that covers genres from rock to classical.

Country's Shenandoah is about to go out on their 30th-anniversary tour.

On April 15, 1986, Judas Priest released their tenth studio album, Turbo.

Beyonce is hoping to make Tony Bennett's 90th birthday wish come true by performing with him.

2016 marked the 60th anniversary of Johnny Mathis' debut album, Johnny Mathis ("A New Sound in Popular Song") but it is 2017 that Columbia/Legacy are considering the real 60th for one of the great pop artists of the last seven decades.

On Monday morning, The Recording Academy announced their Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipients along with a number of other honors.

Andrew Dorff, a well known and respected country songwriter, died on Monday at the age of 40. The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiners Office has not released a cause of death.

Early in Greg Lakes's career, he was part of a group called The Shame who released the single Don't Go Away Little Girl, co-written by Lake and a young Janis Ian.

Ex-Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx has shut down his Twitter account and announced he will no longer post on Facebook in a bid to refocus his life.