Speaking to Beats, the singer specifically discussed one of Ghost Stories' singles, 'A Sky Full Of Stars'. "I'm not the most poetic of lyricists," he admitted, "but I know what feels right."

He added: "It's not saying someting's broken so we should give up, it's saying something's broken so let's work on it and make it better than it was before."

As for his inspirations, Martin said: "I'll tell you the truth, I was listening to a lot of Katy Perry. A lot of her songs have the same chord sequence. Your body feels comfortable with them, and then there's a melody on top and a groove you can get into. So there's a simplicity to that."

Listen to Chris Martin talking about 'A Sky Full Of Stars' below

'A Sky Full Of Stars' was the second single to be taken from Coldplay's sixth album, Ghost Stories, which was released back in May and went to No.1 in both the UK and the US.

The former Supergrass frontman released his debut solo LP, Here Comes The Bombs, in 2012 following the split of Supergrass two years earlier.

His new album, Matador, will be released on 26 January, and was recorded partly in Coombes' home studios and partly in the Courtyard Studios in Oxfordshire.

Listen to 'Buffalo' from Matador below

With the exception of drums on four tracks, synths on one and backing vocals, everything on the record was played by Coombes himself. The full tracklisting is below.

1. Buffalo
2. 20/20
3. The English Ruse
4. The Girl Who Fell To Earth
5. Detroit
6. Needle’s Eye
7. Seven Walls
8. Oscillate
9. To The Wire
10. Is It On?
11. Matador

Coombes has also announced a series of UK tour dates in February, kicking off at Bristol's Fleece on 4 Feb. Full tour dates are below. For tickets and more info, visit here.

4th Bristol Fleece
5th Brighton Old Market
6th London Queen Elizabeth Hall
7th Oxford O2 Academy
9th Birmingham Glee Club
10th Edinburgh Pleasance Theatre
11th Manchester Gorilla

74 Is The New 24, which is set for release in the Spring of 2015 via Moroder's new label Sony, will also include Mikky Ekko, Matthew Koma and Charli XCX, and follows Moroder's collaboration with Daft Punk on 2013's Random Access Memories.

Alongside this announcement, Moroder also revealed the video for title track '74 Is The New 2', whcih you can watch over on Vice now.

Speaking in a press release about the new album, Moroder, who turned 74 in April, said: "Dance music doesn't care where you live. It doesn't care who your friends are. It doesn't care how much money you make. It doesn't care if you are 74 of if you are 24 because... 74 is the new 24!"

Moroder is best known for his work on songs by artists such as Donna Summmer, as well as his scores for Scarface and Top Gun. He also more recently remixed Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love' and Coldplay's 'Magic'.

Elsewhere in the interview Brydon discusses a number of his other financial faux pas. He describes his worst financial decision was launching the record label A&M. "Went from one record company to another very quickly. They lasted less than a week and got us “Businessmen of the Year” in some bloody magazine. It was all about big business and that was the worst thing. People would think I’d write these songs as a financial scam. It was Herb Alpert’s label. We get on all right now but he couldn’t deal with me back then, probably because of Rick Wakeman’s poisoning [of the relationship] and the like, which there was a lot of."

Lydon recently claimed he felt under-valued by the music press and that many have failed to recognise just how subversive the Sex Pistols were at the time.

The singer said: "It amazes me when I see these all-time top albums lists, and 'Never Mind The Bollocks' is hovering around Number 10, 15 or even 20," he said. "This is a band that pushed it so far we were discussed in Parliament under the Treason Act, you know?"

Clearly in reflective mood, the PiL frontman also disccuses his alias Johnny Rotten in the interview, stating that the character was a self-defence mechanism as a result of his vulnerability: "I can't help it – I'm in the public eye. I've built up a very good defence in Johnny Rotten over the years, but unfortunately that's been interpreted as arrogance, which of course it's not. It's a self-defence mechanism which I had to adopt because of those early years."

Lydon also revealed that he's got more than 2,000 pages of notes for the new PiL album, praising fellow band members as: "the best people I've ever worked with".

Lydon's third autobiography, 'Anger Is An Energy: My Life Uncensored' is out now. 

The 'Let's Dance To Joy Division' trio are gearing up to release their third album in Spring, and will be launching it with a long trek around the EU. 

Full dates are below. Tickets go on sale from 9am on Friday 21 November. For tickets and more information, visit here. 

MARCH
13th – Paris, Cigale
15th – Antwerp, Trix
16th – Amsterdam, Melkweg MAX
18th – Frankfurt, Batschkapp
19th – Bremen, Aladin
21st – Odense, Posten
22nd – Oslo, Rockefeller
23rd – Stockholm, Debaser Strand
25th – Hamburg, Grosse Freiheit
26th – Berlin, Astra
27th – Munich, Tonhalle
29th – Stuttgart, LKA Longhorn
30th – Cologne, Ewerk
31st – Zurich, Xtra

APRIL
2nd – Rome, Orion
3rd – Milan, Fabrique
5th – Vienna, Arena
8th – Bristol, O2 Academy
9th – Manchester, Academy
10th – Birmingham, O2 Academy
11th – Sheffield, Leadmill
13th – London, O2 Academy Brixton
15th – Oxford, O2 Academy
17th – Glasgow, Barrowlands
18th – Liverpool, O2 Academy
19th – Newcastle, O2 Academy

The festival takes place throughout June and July at Rome's Capannell Racebourse, and sees huge acts playing on most days during the summer months.

Muse announced via Twitter that they are the first act confirmed for the festival, and will play on 18 July. 

NEW SHOW: Muse are headlining @Rock_in_Roma in Italy in July 2015. Details: http://t.co/Avq529xBLE #RockInRoma2015 pic.twitter.com/WKKKIM98qj

— muse (@muse) November 17, 2014

Meanwhile, following the news that Slipknot will headline Download 2015, Muse are strongly rumoured to join them on the bill.

The band are currently in the studio recording their seventh album, and will also headline Bilbao BBK Live festival and Portugal's Nos! Alive next summer.

To mark the collaboration, a number of artists in ten launch cities have been confirmed for drive along events on 21 November including Andrew W.K., Professor Green and Diplo.

It's been a difficult few weeks for Spotify, exemplified by Taylor Swift's removal of her entire back catalogue from streaming and denial of the benefits of the service. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek recently had to defend the website's relationship with artists and bands, disputing claims that an act can't make money from streaming their music.

“We started Spotify because we love music and piracy was killing it. So all the talk swirling around lately about how Spotify is making money on the backs of artists upsets me big time.

“When I hear stories about artists and songwriters who say they’ve seen little or no money from streaming and are naturally angry and frustrated, I’m really frustrated too. The music industry is changing – and we’re proud of our part in that change – but lots of problems that have plagued the industry since its inception continue to exist.” he continued.

The singer will play three dates at the London jazz and blues club between 19 and 21 December, which will accompany already-announced shows in November and January.

The singer's 34th studio album, Born To Sing: No Plan B, was released in 2012 and included the single 'Open The Door (To Your Heart)'.

Watch Van Morrison perform 'Open The Door (To Your Heart)' below

Full tour dates are below. For tickets and more information, click here.

Mon November 17 2014 - LONDON Lyric Theatre
Sat November 22 2014 - DOWNPATRICK Great Hall
Sun November 23 2014 - DOWNPATRICK Great Hall
Fri December 19 2014 - LONDON Nell's
Sat December 20 2014 - LONDON Nell's
Sun December 21 2014 - LONDON Nell's
Mon January 26 2015 - GLASGOW Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

The 'Bring It All Back' former pop and TV sensations recently reunited to perform as part of BBC's Children In Need telethon. It was awful, and a final full stop on the childhoods of many -  but today they've have announced details of a long string of huge shows in 2015. 

Full dates are below. Tickets are on sale from 9am on Thursday 20 November. For tickets and more information, visit here. 

Thu May 07 2015 - BIRMINGHAM LG Arena
Fri May 08 2015 - MANCHESTER Phones 4u Arena
Sat May 09 2015 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Metro Radio Arena
Mon May 11 2015 - BOURNEMOUTH BIC
Tue May 12 2015 - CARDIFF Motorpoint Arena
Wed May 13 2015 - LIVERPOOL Echo Arena
Fri May 15 2015 - NOTTINGHAM Capital FM Arena
Sat May 16 2015 - LONDON O2 Arena
Tue May 19 2015 - LEEDS first direct Arena
Wed May 20 2015 - GLASGOW SSE Hydro
Thu May 21 2015 - SHEFFIELD Motorpoint Arena

The LP, which follows their 2013 debut In Love, has in fact been finished for some time. Speaking to Gigwise backstage at this year's Reading Festival, the band said: "It's finished, we're just waiting for the right time to release it."

They added: "We would've loved to do it earlier but apparently you've got to do things in the lead up to it. Why can't we just put it on YouTube? But no, you've gotta build it up. So that's what we're doing now."

As for the album's sound, they told us: "It kind of expands on every element of our sound that we've already covered... If you take us at face value you might be a little unsettled by some of the songs on it. But I'd like to think that people can kind of digest it a little bit and chew it up and be like, 'Ok, it doesn't sound like 'Lovesick' but I like it."

Happy People will be released via Columbia Records on 9 February 2015. See the full tracklisting below.

O YOU
GEN STRANGE
LOST ON ME
PERFECT SKIN
HAPPY PEOPLE
SOMEDAY
MONEY
I’M A GIRL
UNDER THE MOON
WORLD PLEASURE

The band are also set to embark on a UK tour at the start of next year. Full dates are below. For tickets and more info, click here.

Thurs Jan 15th, Liverpool Kazimier
Thurs Jan 22nd, Bristol Exchange
Sat Jan 24th, Birmingham The Library at the Institute
Thurs Jan 29th, Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Fri Jan 30th, Sheffield Queens Social Club
Thurs Feb 5th, Nottingham Bodega
Thurs Feb 12th, Norwich Waterfront Studio
Thurs March 5th, Newcastle Cluny
Thurs March 12th, Manchester Deaf Institute
Tues March 17th, Glasgow King Tuts
Fri March 20th, Dublin Whelan’s
Thurs March 26th, Brighton The Haunt

"I was only repeating what Interscope told me about why they needed me," he said. "They’re not my opinions. It’s clickbait journalism. The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media. Then Grimes – who’s completely stupid and retarded to believe any of it – jumps in and has her two cents. I’m not a misogynist. Maybe she’s angry that I’m the male version of her, who was at 4AD before her."

In an entertaining encounter, Pink also revealed that being described as a dork is the gravest insult he's received, that he believes the Wesboro Baptist church are "free speech advocates" and that he loves paeodphiles "like Jesus loved paedophiles".

The best analysis of his often provocative opions? “Everybody’s full of shit. The more sense they make, the more full of shit they are.” He also announced that, despite what he said earlier in the piece, "I am a misogynist! Yes, I have to deal with that.”  

Watch: Picture Me Gone by Ariel Pink below

Pink will also be playing a gig at London's Scala today (17 November), on the same date as his albm Pom Pom is released. For more information and tickets visit here. 

Pink has also announced a European tour for 2015. The tour dates are below:

March 2015

Sunday 1st - Le Grand Mix, Lille France
Monday 2nd - Trabendo, Paris France
Tuesday 3rd - Electric Ballroom, London UK
Wednesday 4th - Old Market, Brighton UK
Thursday 5th - Epicerie Moderne, Lyon France
Friday 6th - Elita, Milan Italy
Saturday 7th - Locomotiv, Bologna Italy
Sunday 8th - Mascotte, Zurich Switzerland
Monday 9th - Mousonturm, Frankfurt Germany
Tuesday 10th - Bremen Theatre, Copenhagen Denmark
Wednesday 11th - Postbanhoff, Berlin Germany
Friday 13th - Melkweg, Amsterdam Netherlands
Saturday 14th - Vooruit, Ghent Belgium
Sunday 15th - Beursschouwburg, Brussels Belgium

The singer was included in the initial announcement of artists confirmed to record the new version of 1984 charity single 'Do They Know It's Christmas', which is raising money for the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

She failed to appear however, leading Bob Geldof to tell The Sun: "Adele is doing nothing, she's not answering the phone... she's not writing, she's not recording. She doesn't want to be bothered by anyone. She won't pick up the phone to her manager. She's bringing up a family, you know."

As The Guardian reports, a spokesperson for the singer has now said that Adele chose to support the cause with a donation, adding: "Bob and the organisers spoke directly with her management but at no point was she confirmed."

Those that did turn up to record the single included Bono, Elbow, Coldplay's Chris Martin, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith and One Direction. To download the track, visit here. 

The Irish songwriter is the latest in a long, long line of musicians and celebrities who have voiced their criticism of the band. They have faced accusations of 'devaluing' music, forcing themselves on people and just not being very good. Now they have also been branded terrorists. 

''What they did with iTunes was a badly-judged move," O'Connor told Event magazine. ''There was something almost terrorist about it. I'm really not a U2 fan but it wasn't at all kosher invading people's lives like that. It was bad management.''

In other U2 news, Bono, after nearly avoiding death by plane, fell off his bike in Central Park and now requires surgery. This means the entire Tonight Show residency has been cancelled. 

Poor U2 just don't seem to be able to catch a break. 

This latest version of the 1984 charity single was recorded to raise money for the Ebola crisis in West Africa (or "embola" as Olly Murs put it in an interview), and features Coldplay's Chris Martin, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, Queen's Roger Taylor, Bono, One Direction and many more.

 Watch Band Aid 30 perform 'Do They Know It's Christmas' below

Following the release of the track's official video, #BandAid30 began trending on Twitter, with many keen to express their opinion on the artists' efforts. Some were impressed by it. 

I don't mind the new #bandaid30 single, but you can't beat the original.

— linda moden (@lindamoden) November 16, 2014

Bob Geldof has gone through so much this year and still stands up and helps other people, He is truly incredible. #bandaid30

— ❤️ (@Leona_Minihane) November 16, 2014

Such a mix of people on the #BandAid30 but their voices are so distinctive, very impressed. Hope it raises lots of money and awareness.

— Francesca (@_xFran) November 16, 2014

This is why I love this country so much helping people around the world, gonna download that song tomorrow #BandAid30

— ¥Junaid¥ (@junaid369) November 16, 2014

Others, however, were less impressed, with some questioning Geldof's motives and others asking why there weren't more African musicians involved. 

Just heard #bandaid30 on #absoluteradio and genuinely thought it was a parody.

— Sean Perry (@SqueekyVanDoors) November 17, 2014

Here's an idea Geldof & Co, why don't you just chuck in a few million each and spare us all from your little group ego-boost? #BandAid30

— Rich (@HashtagTopBants) November 17, 2014

@Hannah_x3_ And of course starbucks provide the refreshments for the recording of #bandaid30 ... What a load haha pic.twitter.com/tx8i4ljC7N”

— Michelle Fogarty (@mafog7169) November 17, 2014

"Well tonight we're reaching out and touching you" is kinda disturbing and a little bit gross when you think about it. #bandaid30

— Christy (@ChristyRae2013) November 16, 2014

A celebrity from the 80's just looked me in the eye and threatened to touch me. #bono #bandaid30

— Paul McCann (@Plopps67) November 16, 2014

Are there no music artists in the whole of Africa that they could've got to do this, no? #bandaid30

— Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan) November 16, 2014

I donated 1st time despite unemployment now I cringe as pop celebrities exploit African crisis #bandaid30 yet again and on X-Factor too???

— John O'Farrell (@seanofearghail) November 16, 2014

To download the track, visit here. 

Lollapalooza Argentina takes place a week later on 21-22nd March in Buenos Aires with a slightly modified bill that will also feature Pharrell Williams and Cypress Hill.

Lollapalooza Brazil then concludes the trio of festivals, taking place in Sao Paulo from 28-29 March and adds Childish Gambino, Rudimental and Marina and the Diamonds to the bill.



Tickets for all three festivals are now on sale. For more information and tickets click here.

It was recently announced that Lollapalooza will be coming to Europe next year, taking place in Berlin at the Tempelhof Airport on 12-13 September. The US date of the festival (in Grant Park, Chicago) will take place from 31 July - 2 August.

The singer, who has seemingly been chosen by the Gods to champion the future of pop music, will be embarking on a huge tour that takes in America, the UK and Europe. Coming to the UK in June, Ariana will play in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham before heading over to Belgium and Germany.

 Listen to 'Love Me Harder' by Ariana Grande below

Tickets for the shows will go on sale from 9am on Friday 21 November, for more information and to get your ticket, click here. 

The full list of European tour dates are as follows: 

Friday, May 15, 2015 Paris, France Zenith
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 Berlin, Germany Max Schmeling Hale
Thursday, May 21, 2015 Stockholm, Sweden Globen
Friday, May 22, 2015 Oslo, Norway Spektrum
Monday, May 25, 2015 Milan, Italy Forum
Friday, May 29, 2015 Amsterdam, NL Ziggo Dome
Monday, June 1, 2015 London, UK The O2 Arena
Thursday, June 4, 2015 Manchester, UK Manchester Arena
Monday, June 8, 2015 Glasgow, UK The SSE Hydro Arena
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 Birmingham, UK Barclaycard Arena
Friday, June 12, 2015 Antwerp, Belgium Lotto Arena
Saturday, June 13, 2015 Cologne, Germany Lanxness Arena
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Barcelona, Spain Palau Sant Jordi

The full list of American tour dates are as follows: 

Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 Kansas City, MO Independence Event Center
Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015 Milwaukee, WI BMO Harris Bradley Center
Sunday, March 01, 2015 Saint Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
Tuesday, March 03, 2015 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
Thursday, March 05, 2015 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
Saturday, March 07, 2015 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
Sunday, March 08, 2015 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Pittsburgh, PA Petersen Event Center
Thursday, March 12, 2015 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Saturday, March 14, 2015 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Sunday, March 15, 2015 Boston, MA DCU Center
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 Washington, DC Patriot Center
Friday, March 20, 2015 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
Thursday, March 26, 2015 Orlando, FL Amway Center
Saturday, March 28, 2015 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
Wednesday, April 01, 2015 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Friday, April 03, 2015 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Monday, April 06, 2015 Phoenix, AZ US Airways
Wednesday, April 08, 2015 Los Angeles, CA The Forum
Friday, April 10, 2015 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
Sunday, April 12, 2015 San Jose, CA SAP Center
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Seattle, WA KeyArena
Thursday, April 16, 2015 Vancouver, BC Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena

The band have been long rumoured to be topping the bill at Worthy Farm next June - especially having announced a UK stadium tour that seemingly coincides with the festival.

However, regarding their alleged slot, Grohl remained typically tongue-in-cheek about the whole affair. 

"If Prince does it, and Oasis does it, you've got the Foo Fighters, how about that?," he told BBC Radio One. 

He continued: "(Michael Eavis) hasn't called me. I mean, I don't want to give out my phone number on air, but I like playing shows! I've been to that festival before. It's pretty fun. We'll see what happens.

"We'll get a conference call happening, we can work this out. Imagine Prince and Oasis on the telephone, that would be amazing."

Opening up about his love for the Gallagher brothers, Grohl continued: "In America Oasis sort of crept up on us, and it was one of the first times that an English band became massively enormous in a really long time. We ended up seeing them and playing shows with them and I got to know them a little bit. I love them as people, they're the sweetest people in the world. I know they have this sort of reputation of being brash and nasty, but I don't think they are.

"I've watched them live and there are not that many bands that can just stand there motionless and make 100,000 people go bananas, and that comes down to the songs. When your songs are that good, you've got something good going on. I miss them.

He added: "If Taylor Hawkins and I can be in a band together, I'm sure that they can be in a band together too."

Foo Fighters upcoming UK dates are below:
25 May – Sunderland, UK – Sunderland Stadium of Light
27 May – Manchester, UK – Emirates Old Trafford
19 June – London, UK – Wembley Stadium*
20 June – London, UK – Wembley Stadium*
23 June – Edinburgh, UK – BT Murrayfield Stadium**

* With Iggy Pop & Royal Blood
** With Royal Blood

There will be a pre-sale from 9am on Wednesday 19 November, before tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday 21 November. For tickets and more information, visit here.

The album has shot the previous holders of the sales accolade, Coldplay's Ghost Stories and Ed Sheeran's X, with a whopping 139,000 sales since last weeks release. Not too bad for a band who haven't released a record in 20 years... 

“Pink Floyd is both thrilled and surprised at the level of international interest in this their final album," a spokesperson told The Official Charts Company. "They want to thank the fans for their support and hope that in some small way, The Endless River has reminded them of the old fashioned joy of listening to an album in its entirety.”

It also means that the album has surpassed the Foo Fighters' eighth offering, titled Sonic Highways, which lands at No.2. Ed Sheeran's X is still hanging on at No.3, while Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour has moved back up to No.4. Lastly veteran rockers Queen have returned at No.5 with a compilation of unreleased and remastered material, entitled Queen Forever. 

As for the singles charts, Gareth Malone's All Star Choir is at No.1 with 'Wake Me Up', just knocking Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' down to No.2. Meanwhile One Direction's 'Steal My Girl' moves to No.3, Cheryl Coles 'I Don't Care' is at No.4 and 'All About That Bass' by Meghan Trainor is still hanging on at No.5.

The mod icons join the already confirmed Taylor Swift in playing a date at the run of shows next summer, this marking the fourth time that The Who have played Hyde Park.

"It's always a good gig," said frontman Roger Daltrey. "It's got nice grass, beautiful trees."

He added: "I remember doing it with an eye patch holding my eye in when we did Quadrophenia, that was a nightmare. We had a quarter of a million people coming the next day and I've got a fractured cheekbone. How we did that show I'll never know."

Watch the trailer and announcement below

The Who will perform at London's British Summer Time at Hyde Park with Paul Weller, Johnny Marr and Kaiser Chiefs on Friday 26 June, 2014. There will be a pre-sale of tickets from 9am on Wednesday 19 November, before tickets go on general sale at 9am on Thursday 20 November. 

For tickets and more information, visit here. 

Tickets for Ed Sheeran at Wembley Stadium are on pre sale on 26 November at 9am and then on sale to the general public from 9am 28 November. Tickets and more details available here.

Sheeran's X spent eight weeks at the top of the charts this summer. Such is his prowess at selling albums that Warner Bros recently announced Sheeran will be in charge of his own record imprint.

For those looking to catch Sheeran live before Christmas, he will also be appearing at Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball at London's O2 Arena this December alongside Taylor Swift and Take That.

Tickets for the Jingle Bell Ball will are on sale now. For more information and to get your ticket click here.

The full list of tour dates are as follows:

Sat 6 December 2014 - LONDON O2 Arena
Sun 7 December 2014 - LONDON O2 Arena