If the team behind the Music is GREAT compilation were looking for live moments that captured the pop zeitgeist, there could be no better moment than Dizzee Rascal performing Bonkers at Glastonbury 2010.

It was bad enough when Iggy Pop, once the embodiment of self-mutilating, rock n’ roll excess, reinvented himself as a motor insurance salesman.

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

The American tenor tells Jessica Duchen about his journey from Harlem to grand opera

Music and film retailer HMV offset anticipated annual losses of £16 million today by predicting a surprise return to profit in the following year.

She survived sudden stardom to sell more than 40 million albums. Ten years on, she has finally got to know her famous father. So why are pain and heartbreak still providing the inspiration for pop music's mistress of alchemy?

Do we need another female singer-songwriter? Feist; Laura Marling; the now ubiquitous Lana Del Rey: the internet being what it is, we can find what we are looking for with the click of a button. 

The woodwind and keyboard player Greg Ham was responsible for several of the distinctive features that made the Australian group Men At Work such an early Eighties pop sensation.

Why being gay is 'bad for business', even now

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.

The prolific recording career of Hal McKusick escaped the notice of most jazz listeners, yet the people who worked for him in the studios included such eminent men as Gil Evans, George Russell, Al Cohn, Jimmy Giuffre, Ernie Wilkins and Bill Evans. Although he was a musical revolutionary and composer in the manner of Dave Brubeck or Gil Evans, McKusick never made it to the top, although he remained in the middle for an extraordinary number of years.

Crowds at the Coachella music festival gasped at an appearance by the late Tupac Shakur. How did that happen? It's all thanks to stunning holograms created in the UK. Gillian Orr reports