The meeting of two diverse talents and minds; Gary Numan and Bill Sharpe of Shakatak. We discover what they've been getting up to and where it will lead.

From the profound to the downright silly, we wind up a year's chit-chat

More than delicately wrought slivers of hand tooled timber, they are the drummer's er, thing.

Jim Betteridge talks to Stan Ridgeway about his unlikely hit Camoflage

At home with the semi-detached Georgians

Arrested whilst gigging with a bunch of jazz musicians in Paris, Sting talks to Paul Tingen about his new album, the inadequacies of high technology, and the future of The Police.

Torch Song; aspiring musical and studio entrepreneurs

Gossip, Fibs, Stuff And Nonsense

oh really?

your queries sorted by the BBC TV experts

...while Paul Gallotta discovers how bass got its top end from the Yes man

Few producers begin their careers with experimental bands, become world-renowned for their work with electronic pop, and then turn their attention to traditional rock music. Paul Tingen talks to Mike Howlett, a man of many talents.

Peter Gabriel at Selhurst Park

Graham hasn't been idle since his 10CC days. Paul White talks to him about his new musical venture... Wax.

Mark Fishlock expounds.

Our man Chris Maillard meets the Men for a man-to-Men chat

Ideas, asides, impertinences, and that.

Janet Angus talks to Jo about his enthralling past and his new studio where surfing is the most serious distraction.

Snares

Dynacord ADD-One Advanced Digital Drum System

As it stands, the ADD-One is a new 8-channel sampled sound expander designed to be triggered from Dynacord's own drum pads. But user-sampling and disk storage promise to extend its range of applications in the near future. Chris Everard reports.

The high priest of Pop discusses his solo album, musicianship, songwriting and The Police.

How much do musicians really earn? The rich ones (ahem) the poor ones (definitely).

'Are Friends Electric?' and 'Cars' will go down in the musical history books as classics of their genre but the writer of those hits, Gary Numan, has yet to match his early successes. Mark Jenkins met up with him during sessions for a forthcoming album at Rock City studios, Shepperton, only to discover that the Numan of today is finding it tough to get airplay for his recent work...