The late 1990s boasted quite a bit of bubblegum pop music, and these three icons personified that era beautifully.

Queen star, Sir Brian May, has admitted he refused to let a famous rapper sample one of his band's iconic tracks because 'it didn't align with Queen's beliefs' ...

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Brian May shares Queen’s liberal stance on the use of their music, except when it came to gangsta rap that promoted violence ...

A recent, and largely well-done, HBO documentary on the parallel careers of music producer Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre was noticeably squeamish about the details of the early 1990s “gangsta rap ...

The legendary Queen guitarist explained that the band refused to let an artist use one of their biggest tracks during the ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. We are currently in a moment of ...

“We have stopped them being used to promote violence or abuse, during the heyday of gangster rap when someone wanted to sample it in a song, we thought was abusive to women,” he said.