PICTURES released last night showed Michael Jackson rehearsing for his final tour just days before he died. more info

SIX YEARS after his last number one Michael Jackson is a chart-topper once again. more info

NO sooner has Chris Isaak enveloped my hand in a bear-like shake than he's grabbed his guitar and launched into a rendition of Willie Nelson's Undo The Right ("If you don't love me, darlin', just leave meÂ…"), his crooning baritone as muscular as ... more info

May 23rd 1988. As a merciless sun blazed down on Rome's Spanish Steps, I took a stroll towards the legendary Trevi Fountain to pick up an ice cream, toss three coins in for luck, and gather my thoughts ahead of Michael Jackson's gig that night. As us... more info

Cerys Matthews, 40, shot to fame as lead singer of the rock band Catatonia, notching up a string of hits such as Road Rage. She broadcasts live as part of BBC 6 Music's Glastonbury Weekend coverage from tonight and her new radio programme Cerys On 6 ... more info

POP LEGEND Michael Jackson sold more than 11 million singles in the UK during his lifetime. more info

The great Leonard Cohen will play his one and only UK show this year at the Brooklands site of Mercedes-Benz World at Weybridge, Surrey on Saturday, 11th July. more info

IN THE Eastwood household of Kyle's boyhood, father Clint's Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie records were rarely off the decks. more info

LENKA'S girlish, bittersweet songs are bashed out with Brill Building aplomb and repeat the bruised optimism of one who knows this world. more info

SONY heralds 1959 the greatest year in jazz with a 50th anniversary reissue of three landmark works. more info