Guardian Music — Following the release of the Co-operative Funeralcare survey, we've put together our own list of most requested send-off tunes as nominated via the Guardian's Six Songs seriesThe results of the Co-operative Funeralcare survey released today shows tha... more info

Guardian Music — My Way has again been named the nation's funeral favourite, despite being a ditty of ineffable banalityThere is an intrinsic paradox to My Way being the pop song most commonly chosen as a funeral anthem by British people. Death is a solemn business a... more info

Guardian Music — Frank Sinatra's My Way remains funeral favourite for seventh year running, with Always Look on the Bright Side at number 13Pop music has replaced hymns at two-thirds of British funerals, a survey from Co-operative Funeralcare has found. Pop was the n... more info

Dlisted — Elizabeth Taylor. Icon. Goddess. My Idol. She was an ethereal beauty and a shameless hussy, marrying 8 times to 7 men (Richard Burton twice) and not giving one crumb of a fuck what anyone thought about it. Everyone knows that she drank like a fi... more info

Guardian Music — Teenage love was at rock'n'roll's core. The stars were often not much older than female fans, and industry middlemen also tried to interpose themselves into the sexual mixBack in 1968, Mick Jagger sang, "I don't care that you're 15 years old, I don't... more info

Starpulse — The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys are among the first ever nominees for the American Pop Music Hall of Fame. Tony Bennett, Neil Diamond, The Carpenters and Simon & Garfu... more info

Guardian Music — Forty-nine years after it first entered the charts, You'll Never Walk Alone is now back at No 12 thanks to a campaign by Liverpool FC supporters. After the Hillsborough report, it is a fitting message of solidarity to those who have sufferedIt lasts ... more info

ContactMusic — Frank Sinatras former Los Angeles home has been demolished Paramount Pictures chairman Brad Grey put the seven-bedroom Holmby Hills residence on the market for 23 5 million 14 7 million a year ago Sep11 but it failed to sell and so in a desperat... more info

Guardian Music — The former Talking Head delights with a 'wildly ambitious' study of all matters musical, from Pythagoras to the MP3David Byrne was not like other boys. When he first heard Purple Haze, aged 14, the precocious future leader of Talking Heads informed h... more info

Guardian Music — Hal David, master lyricist behind such hits as Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, has died in LA at 91 after strokeHal David, the lyricist who teamed with Burt Bacharach on dozens of timeless songs for movies, television and a variety of recording ar... more info