Decca sign Cliff - 46 years later
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Record label Decca will release an album by Sir Cliff Richard - 46 years after they turned him down.
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BERLIN, Feb 16 (IPS) - Protest singer Dean Reed's concerts were   foot-stomping sell-outs from Santiago to Baghdad,  Warsaw to  Helsinki in the 1960s and '70s. But in later years, with his   career in decline, his  marriage shaky and little prospect of  work if he returned to the United  States, the despairing   Denver-born crooner, who had settled in communist East Berlin in  the Cold  War years, drove  his car to a lake and drowned  himself.
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After years of double-digit growth rates, the global ring tone market appears to have come to the end of its crescendo.
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For most anybody who was over 12 and under 30 in 1964, the Beatles sound is immutably fixed in the brain. âAcross the Universeâ will shake those brain cells up.
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Somewhere in the earliest part of  the 21st century, it became obvious that a profound paradigm  shift had taken place in the relationship of rock&#39;n&#39;roll and  music licensing. With the end of the rock era (1965-1994), the  rules began changing just as fast as the technology.
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Warner Music Group's  decision on whether to counter bid for British rival EMI Group  has become a tortuously long one, as the No. 4 player grapples with exposing itself further to recorded music amid a faster-than-expected decline in the industry.
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Forty years after it was made, The Velvet Underground's first recording has become a financial hit &#151; in cyberspace. Bought for 75 cents four years ago at a Manhattan flea market, the rare recording of music that ended up on the influential New York band's first album, "The Velvet Underground &amp; Nico," sold on eBay for a closing bid of $155,401.
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The Rolling Stones have been asked when  they would lay down their guitars for good ever since the  mid-1960s, shortly after they formed.
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By Graham Brough  THE Beatles are set for a pounds 500million-a-year bonanza after settling a long dispute with computer giant Apple.  The settlement means the Fab Four's entire back catalogue will be available on iTunes at 79p a song.
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The agreed merger between two of the UK&#39;s biggest commercial radio groups, Capital Radio and GWR, signals an era of change in the radio industry.
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LONDON  - Setting a television music series in the most famous recording studio in the world is such a logical idea that it's a wonder no one's done it before. But better late than never.
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The next big thing in American music is 45 miles north of the border.
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Veteran British rock band the Rolling  Stones has signed an exclusive worldwide recording agreement to  release its next album through Universal Music Group, prompting  speculation that it could leave EMI.
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Britain's Royal Opera company turns 60 next month and celebrates with a lavish new production of Georges Bizet's "Carmen", the same opera it performed at its inauguration shortly after the end of World War Two.
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More than 40 years after last performing in their home city, the Beatles are as central to Liverpool's economy as ever.
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Pop legend Sir Cliff Richard is to play his 60th concert at London's Wembley Arena during his forthcoming tour.
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Millionaire musical composer Andrew  Lloyd Webber may soon be singing all the way to the bank after  getting an offer for his Really Useful Group, worth up to  $934.2 million.