
Beth Simpson
Beth Simpson is a freelance music expert whose work has appeared in Classic Rock, Classic Pop, Guitarist and Total Guitar magazine. She is the author of 'Freedom Through Football: Inside Britain's Most Intrepid Sports Club' and her second book 'An American Cricket Odyssey' was published in 2025.
Latest articles by Beth Simpson

Gallaghers accumulated £375 million last year and have made Sunday Times Rich List
By Beth Simpson Published
They’ve come a long way from Burnage

Give It Away? No – Chili Peppers sell their back catalogue to Warners for $300 million
By Beth Simpson Published
Deal is separate to their publishing rights sale of 2021

“My generation, we love to film stuff”: Billie Eilish doesn’t have a problem with phones at gigs
By Beth Simpson Published
And she says she’s working on a new album

“Don’t work with somebody that’s destroying your job”: El Estepario Siberiano urges non-collaboration with Suno users
By Beth Simpson Published
And he’s selling anti-Suno T-shirts

"He touched many of your lives. He will be missed": John Lennon and Aerosmith producer Jack Douglas has died
By Beth Simpson Published
He also produced Cheap Trick, Patti Smith and Supertramp

“We’re playing with tension and release”: Meet Angine de Poitrine, the polka-dotted alien ambassadors of math rock
By Beth Simpson Published
Duo have been playing together for 20 years

“We just couldn’t make it work”: Adam Jones reveals that Tool were meant to open the Sphere in 2023
By Beth Simpson Published
Instead, U2 took their place

Keep On Dancing: New study shows it provides “vigorous” exercise and lowers stress
By Beth Simpson Published
The DJ is “guiding the nervous system” says academic conducting the research

Apple Corps to throw open the doors (and roof) of the Beatles' London HQ as a visitor attraction
By Beth Simpson Published
The Beatles At 3 Savile Row will open sometime in 2027

“Within a few minutes, we’d sampled our first fart”: The mistakes and choices that made New Order’s Blue Monday
By Beth Simpson Published
Still the biggest-selling 12-inch of all time

How the Cranberries bucked '90s trends and made the surprise hit that's become huge once again
By Beth Simpson Published
The song has recently been given a boost by TV show Love Story, but as befits its title, it never really went away

“There are no humans in the creative or operational chain”: An AI run record label? Are the robots taking over?!
By Beth Simpson Published
Or is it a hoax?

Mike D of the Beastie Boys breaks silence with debut solo single, Switch Up
By Beth Simpson Published
It was co-produced by his two sons

“Even though it was crazy, it was home to us”: Paul McCartney talks about his nostalgic duet with Ringo
By Beth Simpson Published
Home To Us also features Chrissie Hynde and Sharleen Spiteri

“I think this is the one, after years of toiling in obscurity”: Stones launch new album in NY with Conan O’Brien
By Beth Simpson Published
It’s out July, but no news yet on live dates

“It turned into like a scavenger hunt”: Dave Grohl talks about hiding CDRs of the new Foos album in stores
By Beth Simpson Published
Plus band’s music knowledge is tested by Track Star

“These songs are played a lot. They’re often not played well”: Guitar Center reveal the Top Ten riffs played at their stores
By Beth Simpson Published
And Stairway To Heaven is conspicuous by its absence

“I don’t recognise that name”: Kacey Musgraves goes undercover as an armadillo, looking for her album in Walmart
By Beth Simpson Published
It’s what album promotion is in 2026, kids

“I asked Sean and he said, ‘Oh, he would’ve wanted to engage.’”: Steven Soderbergh on his John Lennon doc and its use of AI
By Beth Simpson Published
It won’t try to bring Lennon back to life, he insists

“A testament to the essential goodness of humanity”: The story of Be My Baby, the emblem of pop’s lost age of innocence
By Beth Simpson Published
The last surviving Ronette Nedra Talley Ross passed away this week

“Get ready to turn the speakers up”: Chase And Status sign up for new James Bond video game
By Beth Simpson Published
007: First Light is out at the end of May

“It was a culture shock for him to see such brainless violence”: Inside the early days of the Arctic Monkeys
By Beth Simpson Published
New book about Sheffield’s indie scene is out next week

“She's redefining what songwriting can be": Rosalia to be honoured at the Ivor Novello Awards in May
By Beth Simpson Published
She’s International Songwriter Of The Year
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