The Surrey mansion where John Lennon wrote the songs for The Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is up for sale. The six-bedroom property in Weybridge, Surrey, where Lennon lived between 1964 and 1968 is on the market for £14 million, The Times reports. Lennon bought the property, known as Kenwood, for £20,000 on July 15, 1964 and lived there with his first wife Cynthia. He is believed to have penned a number of songs for the album while living there.

One of the last ever interviews with The Doors' keyboard player Ray Manzarek will be broadcast on Friday (January 10). The footage will be aired as part of a new three-part BBC4 series Born To Be Wild: The Golden Age Of American Rock, which charts the rise and fall of US classic rock from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The first hour-long episode, which will feature interviews with Manzarek as well as Alice Cooper, Tom Petty, and John Densmore, will be shown at 9pm.

A "definitive" biography of Lou Reed is in the works, it has been confirmed. Titled Lou: A New York Life, the biography will be written by Rolling Stone writer Will Hermes, who has promised the book will tell the "full, definitive" story of the former Velvet Underground frontman's life. The book will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and has no current release date.

Shoe company Converse are set to release five different Black Sabbath themed trainer styles. The Chuck Taylor All Star shoes will make up part of the brand's 2014 spring collection, and feature artwork from a selection of the band's albums, including 'Black Sabbath' and 'Paranoid', reports Rolling Stone. The band and shoe makers previously collaborated in 2008.

Wild Beasts have revealed details of their new album and a UK and Irish tour to take place in March and April. The band will release their fourth album later Present Tense on February 24. The band will then play six dates on a headline UK tour, including a date at London's Brixton Academy. The band will also perform live in Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, Bristol and Cambridge. Scroll down for full details.

Neil Young reportedly told off the crowd for clapping during the first date of his four-night residency at New York's Carnegie Hall. The incident took place on Monday [January 6]. According to one eye witness, the audience began clapping during "Ohio", which apparently threw Young off time.

After last week’s Best Albums Of 2014 roundup/provocation, here’s the first proper playlist of the year; with, as you’ll see, a few auspicious new arrivals.

Bob Dylan has announced his first live dates for 2014. Dylan will play 14 shows in Japan, starting in Tokyo on March 31. This will be Dylan's seventh tour of Japan; he last toured Japan in 2010. Dylan released a live album - Bob Dylan At Budokan - recorded in 1978 at his first shows in Japan. Dylan's most recent dates were at London's Royal Albert Hall. Bob Dylan will play:

Sometime last autumn, maybe, an EP called “Artorius Revisited” by Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band was quietly released in limited quantities. Last time he surfaced around 2006/2007, in a quixotic, thwarted and mostly transcendent musical career that now stretches back some three decades, Head and his longest-lasting configuration, Shack, were signed to Noel Gallagher’s Sour Mash label. It didn’t last.

Neil Young played the first of four solo shows at New York's Carnegie Hall last night [January 6]. The show was divided into two sets, with Young playing a 'greatest hits' set - stretching back to his Buffalo Springfield days - as well as covers of Phil Ochs' "Changes" and Bert Jansch's "Needle Of Death". Young will also play Carnegie Hall on January 7, 9 and 10.