David Thornton

Musicians and performers across generations have remembered Dolly Parton following her death at 80, with tributes highlighting her songwriting, generosity, humour and influence far beyond country music.

A new documentary chronicling the history of Los Angeles' legendary Sunset Marquis Hotel will premiere on 14 August, exploring how the West Hollywood retreat became one of rock music's most enduring sanctuaries through the stories of the artists who stayed, wrote and recorded there.

Forty years after its release, Billy Joel's tenth studio album The Bridge remains one of the most debated records in his catalogue. While it produced major hit singles and featured collaborations with some of Joel's musical heroes, the songwriter himself later became one of its strongest critics.

Billy Steinberg, the American songwriter whose words defined some of the most enduring pop hits of the past four decades including Divinyls’ I Touch Myself, has died aged 75.

American guitarist and producer Rick Derringer has died at the age of 77.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its class of 2025. This years inductees are:

I still remember the CBS guy delivering Cyndi Lauper’s debut album ‘She’s So Unusual’ to EON-FM, the radio station I was working at in 1983. ‘She’s So Unusual’ was released on 14 October 1983, the same day as Lionel Richie’s ‘Can’t Slow Down’ and The Jam’s greatest hits album ‘Snap!’. It came out in the same week as Culture Club’s ‘Color By Numbers’. Those were the days when something important was happening every week with new music.