Simon Cosyns

1 month ago | thesun.co.uk | Simon Cosyns

IF AI generated a song about itself, it might adapt a line written by Freddie Mercury in his Queen pomp. “CAN’T stop me now, I’m having such a good time.”As you may have gathered, artificial intelligence is like a runaway train, here to change all our lives forever, for good and for bad. And it is causing an existential crisis for creators of what, for decades, us Brits have been rather good at — popular music.

2 months ago | thesun.co.uk | Simon Cosyns

“I WATCH people on the way back home,” sings Sam Fender on the soul-bearing title track of his new album. With its widescreen ambition, driving intensity and visceral lyrics, People Watching can’t fail to draw familiar comparisons to Fender’s “biggest hero”, Bruce Springsteen. A few years ago, he noted that Springsteen had “never stopped writing about people” and had “never stopped writing about home”. The same thing applies to the refreshingly candid, fiercely committed Geordie.

2 months ago | thesun.co.uk | Simon Cosyns

“YOU’RE all I got” crops up in two songs on The Lumineers’ new album. It serves as the title of one heartfelt ballad and it appears in the opening lines of another, Keys On The Table. The expression suggests deep dependence on a loved one — with a hint of vulnerability, even desperation. It clearly resonates with the band’s core members, Wesley Schultz (lead vocals, guitar) and Jeremiah Fraites (drums, percussion, keyboards).

2 months ago | the-sun.com | Simon Cosyns

WHEN two savvy Southerners hooked up with two West Midlands wild men, it was a case of light the blue touch paper and stand well back. As legend has it, they were supposed to go down like “a lead balloon”. But, in 1968, they formed the most explosive and arguably most successful band in rock ’n’ roll history — Led Zeppelin. Representing the suburbs of London were Jimmy Page (guitars) and John Paul Jones (bass and keyboards).

2 months ago | the-sun.com | Simon Cosyns

MARIANNE FAITHFULL was the Sixties pin-up who was so much more than a pretty face. Her death at 78 yesterday marked the passing of one of Britain’s most intriguing and accomplished singers — the ultimate “it girl”, the rock star muse who became Mick Jagger’s lover for four years, the leather-clad Girl On A Motorcycle. Last night Mick tweeted his condolences: “I am so saddened to hear of the death of Marianne Faithfull. “She was so much part of my life for so long.