The ‘father of Italian blues’ waxes lyrical about his great friend and frequent collaborator; the lead singer of U2, Bono...
Tag Archives: Sting
Our latest classic of the week is a song that will resonate with fans of the truly sublime, ‘Stranger Things’...
The renowned purveyor of feel-good rock’n’roll and big ballads offers up his hits and first new songs in two years...
The annual Polar Music Prize ceremony on 15 June in Stockholm will honour the iconic singer-songwriter and the renowned saxophonist...
Adele and Ed Sheeran are among those in the running for the title at the BMI London Awards next week...
The Police man has completed his first rock/pop project in over a decade, revealing the tracklisting and its first single...
This year’s UKSC competition launches with a grand prize of working with, and being mentored by, British producer Stuart Epps...
Presenting the 10th winner of our songwriting competition in association with musicians network ReverbNation – a pop-R&B songstress from Trinidad...
We get Yes Sir Boss singer and songwriter Mathew Sellors to put Sting’s live mic of choice through its paces...
This book sets out to do for British artists what ‘Songwriters On Songwriting’ did for their US counterparts – and...
Enter MusicGurus' songwriting competition with Guy Chambers
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I wrote 'Start a party' for Freedom day and the nightclub scene. It all started with Gary Barlow's course, I am now on the TSA
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