Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,31 Dec 2008,30 mins

31/12/2008

Front Row

Available for over a year

Now that performing rock and pop music can be a job for life, how do musicians sustain a long career? A lucrative reunion tour or constant re-invention? John talks to leading musicians, including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Damon Albarn, Paul Weller, Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers from The Police, and Chris Martin and Will Champion from Coldplay about working in the shadow of past success, and the pressure of expectations.

Programme Website
More episodes