David

Just before Christmas, you may remember, I asked for your 2011 Top Tens, in response to my lengthy end-of-year effort.

The spirit of CCR lives… 15 tracks that inspired, or were inspired by, John Fogerty and co

Happy new year, everyone. A bit of housekeeping first: if you haven’t posted your 2011 Top Tens on this thread, please do so asap – I’m going to start adding up the votes end of this week.

Fired up by disco and punk, Jagger’s swagger returns, with a disc of unreleased songs...Wrongly or rightly, the allegations against the Stones came thick and fast in 1977. They’d lost their edge. They’d become gluttonised, lazy, too rich and bored to care. Some of them had the temerity to be in their mid-thirties (NME called them “The Strolling Bones”). The urgent sound of punk had made their jet-set rock seem passé.

The last in our series of transcripts from the judges' discussions: Gillian Welch, "The Harrow And The Harvest".

Singer also admits to being clueless about Led Zeppelin before she covered them

Here's the first quarter of my very subjective favourites list of 2011. The ordering is pretty arbitrary, to be honest, but I guess it's all part of the game.

007 film composer says he'd 'love' to get Brian May and co involved

Singer's first album for eight years will drop in late January