Alman Cohen, known professionally as Alma Cogan was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Dreamboat’ was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the “Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice”, she was the highest-paid British female entertainer of her era. Cogan went on to score…

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you’ll find out that it’s exactly this, it’s the willingness to take a risk. Steven Tyler

The drum skin used on the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album sold for £541,250 ($1m) at Christie’s Memorabilia auction in London. Other items sold included John Lennon’s lyrics for ‘Give Peace a Chance’ which sold for £421,250 ($832,257) and a pair of tinted prescription sunglasses belonging to Lennon, which he wore for the cover…

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you’re not going to get noticed. Elton John

Johnny Cash signed with Columbia Records, where he would remain for the next 30 years releasing over 60 albums. He was one of country music’s biggest stars of the ’50s and ’60s, in total writing over 1,000 songs and scoring well over 100 hit singles.

We don’t tell you what to think or believe in. That’s not our job. We’re rock musicians. Our job is to rock. Sonny Sandoval

I’ve never been able to sit around on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I’ve always played with other musicians. It’s how I play, there’s no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I…

Led Zeppelin played their last-ever concert with drummer John Bonham appearing at Eissporthalle, West Berlin at the end of a European tour. The set included: ‘Black Dog’, ‘The Rain Song’, ‘Hot Dog’, ‘All My Love’, ‘Trampled Under Foot’, ‘Since I’ve Been Loving You’, ‘Kashmir’, ‘Stairway To Heaven’ and ‘Rock And Roll’. They finished the show with…

Today album X went No.1 on the UK album charts for Ed Sheeran. This second studio album reached 10x platinum in the UK with sales of over 3 million copies. The album is the third best-selling album of the 2010s and one of the best-selling albums in the history of the UK. Ed Sheeran has sold…

No one likes to have less than they had before. That’s the nature of the human animal. Joni Mitchell