The test to find the best cover songs is often boiled down to a simple question: does the cover end up being better than the original? Now, this question isn’t quite as simple as it sounds – the best ...

Mariah Meets Rylan is a BBC Studios Music production. The Executive Producer is Alison Howe for BBC Studios. The programme ...

A close friend of Gavin Pring’s mother once told him that he looked like a young George Harrison. She didn’t know how on target she was with the comment as Pring went on to have a career ...

THIS year the UK charts have been notably quiet when it comes to home grown artists. Only the likes of Charli XCX and Raye have managed to cut through against our American rivals across the pond.

Music legend Quincy Jones received an honorary Oscar weeks after his death, along with Richard Curtis and the producers of ...

Sheeran sang alongside Coldplay, Sinead O'Connor, Sam Smith, One Direction and Rita Ora on Band Aid 30 in 2014. A new mix, ...

The departure of two key members of any band would usually signal said band's fortunes were headed for a major downturn. 10cc was faced with just such a crisis prior to the making of their fifth album ...

British-Albanian pop star Dua Lipa’s fans danced the night away when she brought her “Radical Optimism Tour” to the ...

Bob and Chris Herbert – the same father-son duo behind the initial formation of the Spice Girls – placed an ad seeking young ...

The band that recorded it had just lost its lead singer. Meanwhile, those responsible for it were just starting their careers, with the lyricist still in her teens. And it hit not only once, but twice ...

Dolly Parton’s musical story starts further back than most might expect — to the British Isles of the 1600s. That’s where her ancestors hail from, eventually landing in the hollers of East ...

With the publication of his new book Folklore Rising, artist and author Ben Edge guides us through ten of the songs that ...