New album is compiled from gramophone recordings explorer took on ill-fated journey to the Antarctic

The purchase of Four Seasons marks a comeback for the Terra Firma boss following his debacle over record label EMI

The music giant Sony's £1.4bn move to buy EMI's music publishing division has got the green light from regulators in Brussels. Insiders said the European Commission would give formal approval later today.

Sony's £1.4bn move to buy EMI's music publishing division has ot the green light from regulators in Brussels. Insiders last night said the European Commission would give formal approval to the music giant today.

Sir Bruce Forsyth has signed up to share a stage with Bob Dylan, Suede and Primal Scream at this year's Hop Farm Music Festival.

It’s a captive audience for musicians, although stomach-churning nausea may be the most common response. Rock bands will create exclusive soundtracks for roller-coaster rides under a new deal agreed by EMI.

Universal Music is poised to file with Brussels for approval of its £1.2bn takeover of EMI’s recorded music arm as early as this week.

Exactly 50 years ago, Decca's Dick Rowe turned down the Fab Four, so heading an unenviable club of talent-spotters who passed up their biggest chance. But is it all an urban myth? A new book suggests so

The stock market value of HMV, the entertainment retailer, nearly tripled yesterday after it agreed a crucial lifeline with its banks, which are to waive a series of tests on its loans.

Rebecca Peyton, 39, is an actress whose one-woman show, Sometimes I Laugh Like My Sister, is based on her experiences after her elder sister, Kate, a journalist and producer, was murdered in Somalia while posted there for the BBC in 2005.

The US bank Citi has started talks with EMI's pension trustees to put cash into the scheme, which could cost it up to £200m.

Terra Firma, the private equity firm controlled by the City financier Guy Hands, is among a small number of buy-out companies that have submitted second-round bids of up to £300m to acquire the Garden Centre Group (GCG).

French-owned Universal pays £1.2bn for UK's last remaining major record company

Coldplay are the latest act to give Spotify the cold shoulder. Adam Sherwin reports on a revolt rocking the industry