Billy Paul, the jazz and soul singer best known for the chart-topping ballad Me And Mrs Jones, has died.

James Blunt was a double winner at the Ivor Novello Awards today while Coldplay left empty-handed.

Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced singer who started as a church choir boy and went on to record such classic tunes as You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine, died today of cancer. He was 72.

Three decades after forming in a Dublin school and still on top of the music world, U2 were ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined by the O’Jays, Percy Sledge, The Pretenders and Buddy Guy.