Later…Live with Jools Holland will return on April 9 with guests including Suede and Cat Power. The long-running music show will start its 42nd series with the first in eight half-hour live shows on BBC 2 at 10PM on Tuesday, April 9. Suede will appear to perform songs from their new album 'Bloodsports' while Cat Power will make a rare live appearance in the UK, playing songs from her 2012 album 'Sun'.

Tom Morello has spoken about his recent time spent as guitarist for Bruce Springsteen, saying that it is an "honour" to play with the E Street Band.

Jeff Lynne has revealed that the surviving Beatles would “take the piss” when he produced them.

Lou Reed has cancelled a series of West Coast United States shows through the month of April, including two performances at the Coachella festival. The cancelled shows were in Coachella on April 12 and 19, San Francisco on April 14, Monterrey on April 16 and April 17 in Los Angeles. The five cancelled dates were his only listed upcoming shows. No reason has been given for the cancellations. According to a brief statement posted on website for the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, “This show has been cancelled due to unavoidable complications.”

Motown songwriter-producer Deke Richards, who penned songs for The Jackson 5 and The Supremes, has died at the age 68.

When I first started reading what used to be Melody Maker, in a time now shrouded not so much in what are usually called the mists of time as they are in a fog as dense as anything that might gather over Dogger Bank, I used to accept its weekly delivery in the manner of some kind of jackal, cur or otherwise fanged and ravenous critter.

Everybody we spoke to about Kevin Ayers following his lonely death in the South of France at the age of 68 had so much to say that trying to fit everything they told us into the tribute feature I've written for this month's issue was like trying to pour the Atlantic into a bucket.

The house where George Harrison wrote “Blue Jay Way” has sold for $3.8 million (£2.5 million). 1567 Blue Jay Way Los Angeles, CA 90069 was first put on the market last April with an asking price of $4,599,000 (£3,025,657). The “Bird Streets” of Hollywood Hills are an exclusive neighborhood overlooking the Sunset Strip. 1567 Blue Jay Way was owned by Peggy Lee's manager, Ludwig Gerber. The song was written in August 1967 at the property, where Harrison was staying with his wife Pattie, Apple Corps exec Neil Aspinall and "Magic" Alexis Mardas.

Dave Davies has revealed details of his upcoming album, I Will Be Me. The album is Davies’ sixth solo album and first since 2007's Fractured Mindz. According to Davies' website, I Will Be Me has an expected release date of June 4, to coincide with Davies' run of American dates.

For $10,000 (£6588), a fan of Alice Cooper can buy the chance to play a round of golf with the shock-rock legend. The offer is part of a current Kickstarter campaign which is looking to secure funding for Uncle Alice Presents, a 12 part series of comics and a graphic novel created by Tom Sheppard and which feature Alice Cooper as the narrator and "demented, blood-soaked host".