Nirvana for X Factor?

Courtney Love has proposed the unthinkable: a version of a Nirvana song on X Factor

Elbow join the Olympic team

Those Olympics highlights will be packaged with an Elbow soundtrack next summer

Jimi Hendrix voted greatest ever guitar player

Gaga gets gooey over Christmas

Lady Gaga has recorded a version of White Christmas, but felt the need to rewrite it

Springsteen confirms summer shows

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are back in the UK for festival dates in 2012

Radiohead hit the road

Thom Yorke and his crew bring their punchdrunk lovesick singalongs to a stadium near you

Beatles audition for drummer

Well they did, 51 years ago. A letter from Paul McCartney to a hopeful applicant has just sold for £35,000

Kate Bush romps through the snow

Elton John, Stephen Fry and an amorous snowman turn up on Kate Bush's latest imaginative creation

Beyoncé left cold by Coldplay

Ms Knowles shows discernment in refusing Chris Martin's songwriting overtures