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Paul McCartney has replied to two fans who first contacted him 50 years ago. BBC News reports that McCartney wrote a reply to Barbara Bezant and Lyn Phillips decades after they recorded a message on to tape in 1963 and sent it to the Finsbury Park Astoria in London, where The Beatles were performing live. The tape was later found at a car boot sale with its buyer deciding to try and locate the two women.

Damon Albarn will make his radio presenting debut this Saturday (October 5). The frontman will be covering for regular presenter Dermot O'Leary on his BBC Radio 2 show, which airs at 3pm. The BBC states that Albarn will be playing music "from all over world", and will also be joined by actor Idris Elba as well as Paul Simonon, Ken Dodd and a Pentecostal Choir.

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have invited fans to attend a special London gig, which will be filmed for a new film about Cave, called 20,000 Days On Earth. The band will play an intimate sow at London's Koko on November 3. Fans wishing to attend can register to purchase tickets via a ballot on the band's website by Monday, October 7 at 9am.

Peter Gabriel is to release a new single, "Courage" on November 4, 2013. The track was originally part of the sessions for the singer's 1986 album, So. It was 'rediscovered' during the search for materials for the So 25th anniversary box set

“We weren’t concerned with reputation then, and I’m not concerned with it now,” writes Ian McLagan in the introduction to our new Ultimate Music Guide. “If you’re thinking seriously about your career, you’re not having any fun, and that transfers to the audience.”

The childhood home of John Lennon is to go up for auction at Liverpool's Cavern Club this month (October 29). Lennon lived in the red-bricked terrace house at 9 Newcastle Road in Wavertree, Liverpool, with his parents and grandparents from his birth on October 9 1940 until the age of five, when he went to live with his aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith. It is also the place he is believed to have have written "One After 909" later in his life.

Dave Stewart has claimed that Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich made a "mistake" in their attitudes towards Spotify and says that musicians should "worship" the music streaming service.

A list of David Bowie's 100 favourite books has been revealed by curators of the David Bowie... Is exhibition in Ontario, Canada.

The Jam have announced details of a new vinyl-only box set, due for release on November 25, 2013 through UMC-Polydor. The eight-album The Jam - The Studio Recordings will include all six of the band's studio albums as well as two additional discs compiling non-album singles and b-sides.

To celebrate the imminent release of The Rolling Stones' Sweet Summer Sun – Hyde Park Live concert film on DVD and Blu-Ray, we've teamed up with Eagle Rock to give away a pair of tickets to attend an exclusive advance screening at the Electric Cinema in West London at 8.30pm on Thursday, October 10. The concert film chronicles The Rolling Stones’ historic and triumphant return to London’s Hyde Park this summer, where the band played to over 100,000 fans.