Elton John’s songwriting partner Bernie Taupin and Spice Girls’ Melanie Brown (Mel B) have been named in the 2022 New Years Honours list.

007’s ranking was Commander James Bond in the Bond movies. Now the outgoing Bond, Daniel Craig, has the same title. Craig has been awarded the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George honour in the Queen’s New Years honours list.

Rick Wakeman was the keyboard player of choice on two of David Bowie’s best known song ‘Space Oddity’ and ‘Life On Mars’ and a lot of why those songs sound like they sound is because of Rick.

Katy Perry’s ‘Katy Perry: Play’ has kicked off in Las Vegas.

One of the few ways to get an actual read on what is really selling is to look at the Vinyl chart. 2021 is a wake-up call for popular acts and the wake-up call is classic rock.

Adele’s ‘30’ was the only album in the USA to sell more than one million physical copies in 2021 but after the music biz gets to inflate the figures, the manufactured acts also look good with their manufactured sales.

The Rolling Stones musical director and keyboard player Chuck Leavell says the ‘No Filter’ tour of 2021 even happening was “a miracle”.

Parkway Drive, The Getaway Plan, Alex Lahey and The Chats are just a few of the acts about to see in 20222 at Ballarat’s Kryal Castle.

Jimmy Barnes has the band back working with the Red Hot Summer dates looming and AC/DC is warming up the band.

Canadian band Rush are about to become pinball wizards. Stern Pinball has a Rush pinball machine on the way.

Don’t expect any new music from Eagles soon. Vince Gill says they haven’t even tried.

Madonna has accused rapper Tory Lanez of illegally sampling her song Into the Groove.

Paul Weller wants an album of soul singers covering his songs – but is worried it would seem “arrogant”.

Britney Spears has revealed the reasons why she doesn't want to return to the music industry.

Ellen Foley and Karla DeVito have made their first ever video together. The video was for their duet ‘I’m Happy Just To Be Here’ from Ellen Foley’s recent album ‘Fighting Words’.

Australian Broadway star Hugh Jackman has tested positive to Covid-19 in New York.

Chris Martin has been singing opera to better his vocals.

The very last song The Beatles recorded before they broke up was ‘I Me Mine’ but it wasn’t all of The Beatles.

The following is an announcement from The Country Music Academy in the lead-up to the 50th Tamworth Country Music Festival.

Adele's "30" becomes the last No.1 for 2021 by holding for a fifth consecutive week at the top of the ARIA Album Charts.

Arlo Parks wants to record a " big and emotional" song with Thom Yorke.

Frank Ocean has debuted new music on the Christmas edition of his radio show. Ocean revealed a surprise for fans on his Apple radio programme 'Blonded Radio' on Christmas Day (25.12.21) as he shared a nine-minute track that has been inspired by a conversation he had with the Dutch motivational speaker Wim Hof.

50 years after its release Joni Mitchell has released a music video for her song ‘River’ from her 1971 classic album ‘Blue’.

Tori Cornell has performed a cover of her father’s version of Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2U’ for the Jimmy Fallon show.

Metallica gave their hometown fans in San Francisco a special treat with two shows with setlist one played in chronological order from the first album to most recent and second show, a completely different setlist with the albums compiled from now until then.

Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée has died at age 58. A Cause of Death is yet to come.

Fresh out of the “Conservatory” Britney Spears is alerting fans to a new song on the way.

RM, Jin and Suga of K-Pop band BTS have tested positive to Covid-19. The more other members, J-Hope, Jungkook, V and Jimin, are so far, so good.

Paul Kelly leads the Christmas sweepstakes for the most popular Christmas album in Australia for 2021.

Neil Young has added a previously unreleased album to his archives. ‘Summer Songs’, released on 25 December 2021 is a fully sequenced by unreleased album from 1987.