Bell andy

The event's music billing swells

The rumours that Gallagher will play Glasto also untrue say Oasis

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO March 5 to 11, 1997 The Notorious B.I.G. is shot dead as he sits in a car outside the Soul Train Music Awards in Los Angeles. Police confirm they are investigating links between the killing and the slaying of Tupac Shakur in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas six months earlier, fuelling tabloid stories of a feud between the East Coast and West Coast rap communities. Biggie's demise comes just days after Death Row Records president Marion 'Suge' Knight receives a nine-year sentence for parole violations.

Sting and co to play the US, Europe, Australia and Japan

After Come On Feel The Illinoise, “Merry Xmas Everybody” as a 5CD box set!

New York imprint's bumper pack of freestyle punk-funk

Stunning all-star tribute to country music's first dynasty, produced by John Carter Cash As musical legacies go, the Carter Family takes some topping. From an obscure 100,000-watt Mexican radio station, the truly seminal recordings of Alvin Pleasant Carter, wife Sara and cousin Maybelle took country to a whole new coast-to-coast American audience in the '30s. As vocal-harmony innovators, they were as vital to the development of bluegrass as Bill Monroe.

Emboldened by live triumphs, pop's one true genius re-enters the studio

First-time CD release for pre-Big Star band recordings

Chicago duo craft unearthly, not quite folk debut, with added harp