Guardian Music — Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: My surprise 70th in CanadaMy life has been one amazing adventure since I arrived in British Columbia on the Canadian Star freighter in 1967, a teaching job on the isolated Sunshine Coast of B... more info

ContactMusic — Adele The Beatles and Susan Boyle are among the U K stars competing to be named Great Britains top cultural offering in a new poll Queen Elizabeth II One Direction the Harry Potter books and Dusty Springfield have also been shortlisted in the Greats.... more info

Soul Sides — Dusty Springfield: Crumbs Off the Table Girls Can’t Do What Guys Can Do From See All Her Faces (Philips, 1972). Also on Dusty In London. I have an inexplicable habit of constantly under-regarding Dusty’s catalog…it’s as if every time I di... more info

Guardian Music — Thanks for being our Guardian Angels this week and giving us a heavenly lift with your angelic song choicesThere's more than a sprinkling of magic about this week's playlist, compiled from your nominations, over the past week, of songs about angels.H... more info

Guardian Music — The music to be played while the royal barge makes its way along the Thames for the Jubilee is a little dull. Perhaps the Queen would appreciate this alternative playlist?According to Adrian Evans, the "pageant master" tasked with arranging a London ... more info

Guardian Music — You didn't hang about in delivering a selection of time-wasting songs that include Elvis Presley and Leonard CohenProcrastination, it turns out, isn't just for idlers and layabouts. I asked for songs on this theme last week, and you unearthed songs a... more info

Starpulse — Mad Men bosses have pulled Dusty Springfield's Burt Bacharach-penned tune "The Look Of Love" from the fifth season premiere of the hit drama - after realizing the song is out of time. TV critics p... more info

ContactMusic — Mad Men bosses have pulled Dusty Springfields Burt Bacharach hit The Look Of Love from the fifth season premiere of the hit drama - after realising the song is out of time TV critics pointed out the timing error explaining the Springfield tune wasnt ... more info

Guardian Music — Composer and arranger of 60s French pop hits, horror film scores and 'audio homages' to the Stones and the Beach BoysWhen the Verve's Bittersweet Symphony became one of pop's more famous copyright cases in the late 1990s, it was widely known that 100... more info

Guardian Music — My uncle Wally Wrightman, who has died aged 77, was a larger than life character, a jazz musician, promoter and radio broadcaster. He was born in Tottenham, north London, one of five children, and became hooked on music at an early age. After leaving... more info