Thanks for coming together and standing by us today here on MNL.

If you're only just joining us we are off home now but scroll down for reaction to Noel Gallagher's new 'Ricky Martin-esque' single, Loyle Carner kicking a "sexist" out of his gig in Norwich, Dolly Parton following Josh Homme into the CBeebies team and Beck is back with a secret gig.

All that remains is for us to do is to say one final big happy 77th birthday to John Lennon and we'll see you tomorrow for more music news.

So we told you earlier about Beck's secret gig in London last night (scroll down) so we know he's in the country.

He confessed to being a bit jet-lagged last night - not that you could tell - but now after a good sleep hopefully the multi-instrumentalist will be speaking to 6 Music's Steve Lamacq at 17:30 BST.

Apparently. he has news. Perhaps he's selling his two turntables and his microphone...

Stay tuned.

Well seeing as it is John Lennon's 77th birthday today, let's have a look at his number one fan Liam Gallagher snarling out a rendition of the Lennon-led opening track from The Beatles classic Abbey Road album this weekend in California.

The Manc singer, whose debut solo album As You Were is currently outselling the rest of the UK Top 20 combined, joined curators Foo Fighters on stage at their Cal Jam festival gig for a cover of Come Together.

Check out some fan shot footage of the jam, which also included Aerosmith's Joe Perry above.

Unusually for Liam, who normally remains rooted to the spot, the 45-year-old newly solo rock 'n' roller then descended into the crowd while the band played on.

What happens in California...

Image source, Sheila Rock

Belinda Carlisle is releasing her first album in a decade, Wilder Shores, which is built around the Kundalini yoga chants that helped her recovery from a severe cocaine addiction.

After two decades, though, the singer finally got clean after hearing a voice telling her: "You are going to be found dead in a hotel if you don't stop."

On the phone from Brighton, she told the BBC's Mark Savage about that record, the 30th anniversary of the Heaven On Earth album and what it's like to be covered in spit at a punk show.

"I have an original voice," says Belinda Carlisle,

"It may not be the best voice but it's distinct and I think that's what has carried me through the years."

Read more.

BBC 6 Music

Well presumably if you're reading this then you're doing so via the world wide web.

We tried standing on the street corner and yelling Music News LIVE through a loudspeaker but it was proving a logistical nightmare.

One man who is concerned about the over-use of technology and the internet in music is James Lavelle of UNKLE.

He caught up with 6 Music's Mary Anne Hobbes, following the release of UNKLE's first album in seven years, and delivered a three Minute Epiphany on the importance of valuing human interaction over virtual engagement.

Check it above.

Image source, Getty Images

London pop star Louise has confirmed that she and ex footballer husband Jamie Redknapp are living apart.

The 42-year-old former Eternal singer told The Telegraph's Stella magazine that she still loves her "amazing" husband of almost 20 years but that it was time to focus on finding herself once more and she felt she had become "a sort of Stepford Wife".

Last year's Celebrity Strictly Come Dancing finalist said: "I feel I'm coming back to who I really am.

"I have spent most of my life pleasing everyone else, worrying about being judged and thinking I should always do the right thing by staying at home, looking after my kids and my husband."

She is currently starring opposite Will Young in Cabaret and is playing a handful of live solo dates later this year.

She added: "I'd think of my past life as a pop star as being 'not reality'. Looking after the house and my family was my reality.I became a sort of Stepford Wife, wanting to be perfect at it."

The Guardian

Image source, Getty Images

A music festival at which men will be banned looks like it could go ahead next year after organisers raised than 500,000 Swedish krona (£47,000) on a crowdfunding website.

The event, announced by Swedish comic Emma Knyckare in July, followed reports of rape and sexual assault at Bravalla, the country's biggest music festival, for a second year running.

Bravalla has been cancelled for next year while bands, including Mumford & Sons, (above) said they were boycotting the event in protest

"What do you think about putting together a really cool festival where only non-men are welcome?" she tweeted.

She said it would take place "until all men have learned how to behave".

The new event will invite cis - a term for people whose gender identity matches the sex that they were assigned at birth - women, trans women and those who identify as non-binary to attend.

Read more, external

So, more of you have had chance by now to listen to Noel's new track Holy Mountain.

Scroll down this page to hear it for yourself.

It turns out a few more people have noted a comparison to a certain Latino singer.

H thinks Ricky Martin will be on the blower "very soon". Others like Danny (below) however think the only comparison to Ricky's "she bangs, she bangs" is the line "she fell, she fell".

We think Ricky's records would slip seamlessly into Noel's collection. Somewhere in between Otis Reading and The Rolling Stones.

Country star Jason Aldean returned to the stage on US television at the weekend a week after the Las Vegas mass shooting which claimed the lives of 59 people.

He was mid-performance when gunman Stephen Paddock began firing on the Route 91 Harvest festival in the city.

Aldean, who was on stage at the moment the shooting started, cancelled a string of shows following the attack.

He paid tribute to victims and families on Saturday Night Live where he performed a cover version of the late Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down.

"We hurt for you and we hurt with you," adding, "we will walk through these tough times together."

Meanwhile, 90,000 American football fans also sang the same song in tribute to the late singer during a game between the Florida Gators and the LSU Tigers.

Vegas band The Killers also paid tribute to the late rock 'n' roller by performing his tracks American Girl, external and The Waiting, external at Austin City Limits Festival this weekend.

BBC 6 Music

Liz Kershaw celebrated 30 years on BBC national radio with a special show from Maida Vale, in front of a live audience on 6 Music on Saturday.

Liz was joined by Liela Moss of The Duke Spirit, Glenn Gregory of Heaven 17 and enjoyed a surprise visit from The Undertones Damian O'Niell - who reminded the Rochdale DJ of her old band's cover of the Belfast outfit's punk classic., external

Performance wise, there was something old (and new) from 90s British indie heroes The Charlatans (above) and something brand new from one of Liz's favourite emerging acts The Hempolics (below).

Listen again to the show in full.

Image source, Getty Images

Grammy award-winning US rapper Nelly was denied raping a woman on his tour bus in Washington on Friday.

Nelly - whose real name is Cornell Haynes Jr - was arrested by US authorities after a woman claimed she was sexually assaulted on board the vehicle following a show he played at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn.

According to a report in USA Today, external, he was arrested on suspicion of second-degree rape, which indicates force was used or the victim was incapable of consent due to being physically helpless or mentally incapacitated.

Nelly was release without charge and, in a series of tweets, called the allegation "false and defaming".

Image source, Getty Images

London rapper Loyle Carner showed no mercy for an audience member accused of shouting a sexist comment at support act Elisa & Srigala on Saturday night in Norwich.

Watch below as the Mercury-nominated hip hop star points to the accused inside the University of East Anglia venue and asks security to remove him.

He said: "I’m sorry man, you gotta learn a lesson my young man...

“You gotta go. For being sexist, you gotta go.”

Elisa & Sgrigal (above) have tweeted their thanks to Loyle for his actions.

The rapper who celebrated "the best birthday I've ever had", external with a homecoming gig in Brixton on Friday night, endeared himself further to the locals earlier in the day by arranging an impromptu game of five aside.

Here's Loyle - aka Ben Coyle-Larner - below sporting his retro Liverpool kit, probably sent in by a fan in exchange for tickets.

Can we have a few more music stars like Loyle please...

Read more.

BBC Newsbeat

Lethal Bizzle and Wretch 32 are among the grime artists paying tribute to MC Major Ace (above), who died at the weekend.

He was part of Pay As U Go Cartel, which helped launch the careers of Wiley and DJ Target, among others.

The MC, whose real name was Luke Monero, had been suffering from a brain tumour, and passed away on Sunday.

Read more

Last week, it was a rock star in the shape of Josh Homme and now, country queen Dolly Parton is the latest musician to step in front of the camera to read a CBeebies bedtime story.

You'll be able to catch her reading Louise Yates's Dog Loves Books on 25 October.

The country star runs her own reading initiative called Imagination Library and said: "Encouraging children to develop a love of books from an early age is very important to me."

She is also releasing a new children's album I Believe in You on Friday.

If you missed it or don't have kids (then that's entirely probable) then here is Queens Of the Stone Age's Josh Homme's story of Zog from Friday.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

Californian guitar hero Beck gave a live debut to new track Up All Night from his forthcoming album Colours at an intimate secret cash-only gig in London on Sunday night.

Around 100 or so fast-thinking and excitable fans packed into the Omeara venue near London Bridge to see the 47-year-old and his eight strong band squeeze on to the small stage and play a best of set ahead of his appearance on Later... with Jools Holland on Tuesday.

An admittedly jet-lagged Beck, who had earlier landed from LA, told the crowd: "We're gonna start slow tonight then get going later. Like we're opening up for ourselves!"

Good to his word, after beginning with a series of low-key acoustic country ballads such as Blue Moon off Grammy Award-winning last record Morning Phase from 2014, Beck strapped on the electric guitar and ran through hits old and new including Dreams (the first single off the new album), Devil's Haircut, Loser and an extended finale of Where It's At.

Plus of course the new single, which goes a little something like this...

He added: "I've just had an idea, why don't we just tour this gig around the world. Everybody just come with us and we'll just play this gig in different places!"

Most of the Sunday night revelers seemed well up for that plan, conditional on funding of course.

After paying tribute to Tom Petty, the singer introduced the band by running through an apparently impromptu mini-medley of quick covers including The Clash's London Calling, Once In a Lifetime by Talking Heads, Gary Numan's Cars and a joyous chorus of Donna Summer's dancefloor-filler I Feel Love.

If this is what Beck and his crew sound like when they're jamming jet-lagged, then we're all in for a real treat tomorrow night on the telly once they've all had a good kip and a full English.

Tune in from 22:00 on BBC Two.

Colors; his 13th studio album, is out on Friday.

BBC Radio 2

Radio 2 Breakfast show host Chris Evans had the first play of NG's new single Holy Mountain this morning.

Or should that be Holy Martin? A lot of you saying the first cut from the 50-year-old's third solo album Who Built The Moon? sounds like a certain Latino pop sensation, external.

Listen back from about 01:41;45 in.

Chris Ellis there above prefers the new stuff from Noel's brother Liam there, who released his debut solo album As You Were on Friday.

Liam was in with Chris Evans himself last week. Him and his band were jamming in the name of the lord on the show and here they are covering Natural Mystic by Bob Marley and the Wailers.

Ooh yeah.

Back to Noel and he told 6 Music's Matt Everitt a few weeks back that his David Holmes produced new track, which features Paul Weller on the organ "would have been huge" had it came out in the 90s.

Everything was bigger in the 90s to be fair.

Listen below.

The Guardian

Image source, Getty Images

A book of Leonard Cohen’s final poems, completed just days before his death in November last year is being published by UK publisher Canongate

The Flame, described as as “an enormously powerful final chapter in Cohen’s storied literary career” is due out next year.

Cohen’s manager Robert Kory said: "During the final months of his life, Leonard had a singular focus – completing this book, taken largely from his unpublished poems and selections from his notebooks."

"The flame and how our culture threatened its extinction was a central concern,” he added.

Read more, external

The singer was in the US at the weekend, ahead of the release of his new album The Thrill of It All, which comes out next month.

His performance attracted some enthusiastic reviews not least from American singing royalty.

Sam described his new album as his second musical child and even played a game of sleeve-face to celebrate.

Uncanny.

Despite the official backing of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, external last week, Wolf Alice lost their chart battle with Shania Twain on Friday evening.

The US country star trumped the west London grunge band in the most closest contested chart fight of the year so far. Just 764 sales separated the two, with Wolf Alice ceding an early lead to the Canadian star.

Luckily, there's no hard feelings on the part of the young pretenders.

Image source, Reuters

Twain's album Now is her first since 2002, and comes after a period where she struggled with debilitating vocal problems.

Tom Petty also returned to the chart this week, after his sudden death on Monday at the age of 66.

His 1993 greatest hits album, which features songs like Free Fallin', American Girl and Refugee, re-entered the Top 40 at number 14.

Read more.

Image source, Getty Images

Morning all.

We hope you're all feeling suitably refreshed after the weekend? We'd ask what you got up to but we're pretty jealous guys.

Stand by us today on Music News LIVE - on what would've been the late, great John Lennon's 77th birthday - and we'll have your verdicts on the brand new track from Beatles megafan Noel Gallagher and tell you about a secret Beck gig last night.

Plus Shania Twain has her first UK number one album in 15 years and Dolly Parton joins the CBeebies' Bedtime Stories hall of fame.

For now here's 5 things we learned last week. Just Imagine, external what we'll learn between now and Friday?..