Though Daughn Gibson’s second album has many qualities (tumbleweed atmospherics, understated exotica, country-soul song structures which recall Lambchop and Serge Gainsbourg), chief among them is the voice of the 6ft 5in former trucker itself.

Country singer Slim Whitman has died at the age of 90 in Florida.

Described as "the Italian Elvis", Little Tony, who died on 27 May at the age of 72, was a rock'n'roll pioneer whose rebel look and interpretation of the rock'n'roll repertoire shook up his home country in the late 1950s, writes Pierre Perrone. But his fame also spread across Europe, including France and the UK, where he scored a Top 20 hit with "Too Good" in 1960.

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Weddings, bar mitzvahs, courtrooms? It turns out that being an Elvis impersonator can be criminal

Monopoly has a special place in my heart.

1. "The past is a foreign country".

Tony Sheridan, the guitarist and singer-songwriter who had The Beatles as his back-up band before they hit the big time, died at the weekend in Hamburg, Germany.

When Fox News analysed Gangnam Style, the most viewed video on YouTube with over 852,000,000 views, they clearly didn't take into account that it's in another language.

The band's 50-year shows don't mean it's the last time. John Walsh salutes rock's elder statesmen

There is one candidate for Director General who would really ruffle Murdoch feathers

A former asylum care-worker who medicated his own demons with drink, Kevin Coyne sang from life’s fault-line – and from the heart. Boasting one of rock’s best voices, this tiny, tubby man made bluesy, folky, comic, sad and marvellously odd music between 1969 and his premature death in 2004.  Derby-born Coyne’s fans include John Lydon and Will Oldham.

Hollywood is no place for pus, needles, bodily excretions and mouth sores