Rick Astley, the Human League and Spandau Ballet frontman Tony Hadley are to co-headline this summer's Rewind Festival in Scone Palace, Scotland.

Heaven 17, Bananarama, Hue & Cry, The Beat, ABC, The Bluebells and Fiction Factory, who have reformed specially for the occasion, will also perform for an expected 20,000 fans of 1980s music, who will attend the festival.

Billy Ocean, Kim Wilde, Howard Jones, Go West, Nik Kershaw, Imagination, T'Pau, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, The Real Thing, Toyah, Hazel O'Connor, China Crisis, Doctor & the Medics, Modern Romance and Cutting Crew complete the...

Almost everyone owns an Ipod, or some other form of music listening device, that we can thank to the benefits of the changes in music technology. If we were to consider however how the "music" itself has changed due to technology, then the changes in music technology can be viewed from a whole other point of view.

From a broader perspective we can perhaps say it really started with the German Electronic pop group Kraftwerk. They were essentially the first band to have the foresight to mix electronic sounds provided by the "new technology" on hand in the 70's and mix it with the pop s...