Sweeping The Nation — It's STN's fourth grandest annual tradition - the music-related programming between this Saturday and the first Friday of space year 2019. And this year we're not going to just list every last Sky Arts repeat and chat show performance, th... more info

Guardian Music — Session guitarist with more than 50 chart toppers to his nameThe sound of British pop music in the 1960s was largely the creation of unsung recording-session musicians who accompanied the solo singers of the era and were frequently enlisted to improv... more info

Guardian Music — Influential musician who inspired millions of budding guitarists to 'play in a day'The manual Play in a Day was the bible for generations of budding guitarists in the 1950s and 1960s. Its author was Bert Weedon, an unassuming dance-band musician whos... more info

Totally Fuzzy — strahinja said... JULIE DRISCOLL &BRIAN AUGER AND THE TRINITY – Jools And Brian FUNKADELIC – One Nation Under a Groove MARTY WILDE – Greatest Hits, Born To Rock&Roll THE RESIDENTS – Duck Stab THE PRETENDERS – B Side & Lost Hits THE ADVERTS... more info

Guardian Music — Without them pop would not have many of its major talents, or its most salacious talesMalcolm McClaren got his final send-off yesterday, in a suitably flamboyant funeral at Highgate cemetery. But something else was laid to rest with the one-time punk... more info

Guardian Music — An acclaimed singer-songwriter, she wrote Elton John's Love SongLesley Duncan, who has died aged 66 of cerebro- vascular disease, was one of Britain's first female singer-songwriters. Her songs had an astonishing emotional depth and her voice a rare ... more info

Guardian Music — You would have a hard time positioning the late Stephen Gately as a musical pioneer, at least based on the records he made: with the best will in the world, it seems unlikely that the treacly oeuvre of Boyzone or indeed his version of the Watership D... more info