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Leonard Cohen: 'All I've got to put in a song is my own experience'

4693 days ago
Guardian MusicSombre prophet, mordant wisecracker, repentant cad: Leonard Cohen is back with a great new album, Old Values – and more wit and wisdomOn Leonard Cohen's gruelling 1972 world tour, captured in Tony Palmer's documentary Bird on a Wire, an interviewer... more info

Johnny Otis

4693 days ago
Guardian MusicOne of the first US musicians to cross the racial divide in his search for 'soul'The bandleader Johnny Otis, who has died aged 90, was one of the first white American musicians to cross the racial divide, aligning himself with the black community a... more info

How Gil Scott-Heron and Stevie Wonder set up Martin Luther King Day

4704 days ago
Guardian MusicIn an extract from his memoir written before he died last year, Gil Scott-Heron talks about when he toured with Stevie Wonder to establish Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday in the USMemphis, Tennessee was only 90 miles west of Jackson, my ... more info

Elvis Presley's Former Girlfriend Says He was Great in Bed

4705 days ago
411 ManiaLinda Thompson speaks up... more info

Elvis Presley Birthday Celebrations Get Underway In Palm Springs

4706 days ago
ContactMusicTo mark what would have been his 77th birthday fans of Elvis Presley can book tickets for a special guided tour of the Elvis Honeymoon Hideaway The Palm Springs residence is the house that Elvis and Priscilla Presley retreated to after their wedding ... more info

Howler: Ransacking rock'n'roll

4706 days ago
Guardian MusicFor Howler, comparisons with compatriots the Strokes are inevitable – the young Americans unashamedly raid rock history"I'll take it as a compliment," shrugs Howler's Jordan Gatesmith, of the growing pile of articles favourably comparing his band t... more info

Mapping the storyverse

4709 days ago
Guardian MusicA new website provides some unexpected route maps by hooking up the characters that move from one fiction into anotherThe concept of a "metafictional reality" – a sideways universe in which characters in books know they are characters in books – ... more info

Rock stars on the radio – in pictures

4716 days ago
Guardian MusicBetween 1955 and 1960, Cleveland DJ Tommy Edwards photographed guests who would stop by his studio at WERE-AM. The resulting trove – more than 1,700 Ektachrome slides of everyone from Elvis Presley to Doris Day in their prime – has been collected... more info

Go Classic With Frank Sinatra's – 'A Jolly Christmas'

4720 days ago
StarpulseFrank Sinatra was arguably the most important popular music figure of the 20th century, his only real rivals for the title being Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles. more info

Ross MacManus

4722 days ago
Guardian MusicJoe Loss vocalist and creator of the secret lemonade drinkerThe jazz and pop musician Ross MacManus, who has died aged 84, was a featured singer in the 1960s with Britain's leading dance band, the Joe Loss orchestra, and in the 1970s the creator of t... more info

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