Articles about music

An introduction to Independent Television programming in 1966

A good jingle can sell you anything – in 1957, at least

The BBC reviews the first two years of the Light Programme

Songwriter and singer Jackie Trent has died

Kevin Chamberlain takes us on a journey through his life with a gramophone

About a year ago, a free music streaming service called Spotify was launched in the UK (it’s available elsewhere too). At the start, it didn’t have all that much music…

BBC admits it went too far in U2 tie-up On the surface this just appears to be yet another complaint from the commercial media sector (this time, the RadioCentre) along…

Despite the fact that Cory Ondrejka works for EMI, he knows more about what’s really going on in the music industry than almost anyone else.

If you, like me, are an avid BBC Four viewer, you might have seen the extremely cool trailer for the recent Mediaeval (oh, sorry, we are spelling it the American…

So here we are in this new media world. We download our music and give it to our friends, so the musicians who make it don’t get any income. We…