From sacking her manager to rants at fans & NOT wanting any awards… how Chappell Roan is becoming prickliest star in pop

Chappell Roan on stage in London last month after her meteoric rise to fame

SHE is the breakout act of 2024, with a meteoric rise to fame and a sound that has been praised by megastars including Lady Gaga and Elton John. But after scoring 23 weeks in the […]

Mariah Carey on pop stardom, the Grammys and her annual holiday tour

Mariah Carey on pop stardom, the Grammys and her annual holiday tour

In August of 1994, Mariah Carey created a Christmas music classic on her very first try. The singer and songwriter with the Olympic-athlete-level voice was already a Grammy-winning superstar when she reluctantly took her record […]

Liam Payne’s close friend confirmed to host MTV VMAs as she vows to pay tribute to late pop star at Manchester ceremony

Liam Payne pictured at the VMAs in 2018

RITA Ora has finally been confirmed to host next month’s MTV EMAs in Manchester – three weeks after I revealed she had landed the job. It will be a tough gig for the Brit pop […]

80s pop star, 62, has barely aged a day 36 years after smash hit and becoming a mum to surrogate twins

The singer has retained her youthful appeareance well into her sixties

SINGER Taylor Dayne’s hit Tell it To my Heart was one of the anthems of the 80s. Now more than 30 years since the song’s release, the 62-year-old is still doing her rounds on the […]

Huge 80s pop star, 65, looks unrecognisable on make-up free trip to shops – can you guess who?

An iconic 80s pop star looked unrecognisable on a shopping trip

AN iconic 80s pop star looked unrecognisable during a recent shopping trip – but can you guess who it is? If you know your 80s music, you’re bound to have heard her band thousands of […]

Seventies pop legend reveals huge £1.2m bank balance despite slashing UK tour tickets by 50 percent after poor sales

Pop legend Leo is back in the UK but has failed to sell out his tour

HE was a global sensation in the 70s with number one hits on both sides of the Atlantic. The likes of the Grammy-winning You Make Me Feel Like Dancing and the ballad When I Need […]

Amy Allen on songwriting, pop music and Sabrina Carpenter

Amy Allen

As a songwriting student at Boston’s Berklee College of Music in the mid-2010s, Amy Allen had a teacher whose ideas about lyrics included the conviction that words must not be improperly stressed. Among the instructor’s […]

John Chowning, godfather of digital pop: ‘My wife told me: I didn’t think I’d have to compete with a computer’ | Electronic music

John Chowning, godfather of digital pop: ‘My wife told me: I didn’t think I’d have to compete with a computer’ | Electronic music

For 90 years, John Chowning has lived in constant motion. From his youth as a globetrotting music savant through a heyday of radical computing that revolutionised pop, the composer and programmer has taken scarcely a […]

Pop star reveals how she went from singing door to door for candy in small Soviet Union town to Grammy-winning singer

Singer Alya's latest single Hope was released this month

GRAMMY-winning star Alya says she is on a mission – to give a voice to those who cannot speak out for themselves. Growing up through the collapse of the Soviet Union then starting life over […]

‘The Office’ star Creed Bratton talks about his new solo album ‘Tao Pop’

Creed Bratton

The young musician hoisted up his first new electric guitar and looked out at his audience. Then he ripped into an E chord. “It just hit me here in my visceral and vibrated through me […]