Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers is an official ambassador for BBC Music Day, and says that every time you experience music, a little part of you changes.

"I’ve had some really rough years as of late," said the star, who is currently in remission from cancer, "but the music keeps us going."

"When I have my worst times, I just pick up my guitar and I start practising in my room. And people wonder, 'well, do those songs become hits?' 

"And I go, 'I don’t care, I just do it because it makes me feel good. I love to play.'”

The star will join Duran Duran and Laura Mvula at Cornwall's Eden Project tonight, at the culmination of BBC Music Day celebrations.

But he told Chris Evans' Radio 2 Breakfast Show that he might not be playing.

"I’ll probably just be blabbing... because I have to go back to America. I have a show tomorrow."

Pressed on whether he'd be able to resist joining in for a few songs, the star enigmatically replied: "We'll see."

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The official cause of Prince's death has been revealed as an accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl, medical examiners have revealed.

The report, from the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office in Minnesota, comes more than a month after the singer was found dead in a lift at his home.

Detectives have already questioned a doctor who saw the 57-year-old twice in the weeks before he died.

Prescription painkillers were in the singer's possession following his death, officials told US media in May.

Friend and collaborator Lianne La Havas was a guest on BBC Breakfast this morning to talk about being a BBC Music Day ambassador and paid tribute to Prince:

Oxfordshire's Jack Savoretti says he was "clenching his eyes together" as he performed on London's Tower Bridge for BBC Music Day.

The singer-songwriter, and ambassador for the Day, was standing on a glass-bottomed walkway, external, 42 metres above the River Thames, as he played Home, from his hit album Written In Scars.

"I tried not to look down," he told Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio London. "The view is spectacular - but the glass-bottomed bridge is definitely having an effect on me at this time of the morning."

Jack's set was streamed live on the BBC Radio London Facebook page., external

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After a day of teasing the details yesterday, Beck has returned with a new hip-hop influenced track Wow, produced by Greg Kurstin - a veteran of Beck's live band Sea Change.

There is a pretty psychedelic lyric video to accompany it.

He is set to play sold out UK shows at Brixton Academy and Manchester Albert Hall and is on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury.

Many of the gigs happening for BBC Music Day have already taken place - starting with Amy Wadge at the Severn Bridge and this stunning piece by the Renewal Choir, plus gigs at Tower Bridge in London and even the Bridge of Sighs in Oxford.

So much to tell you, so little time,

It's BBC Music Day - gigs on bridges, in factories, in parks, in libraries, in hospitals and town halls - culminating with a show at the Eden Project in Cornwall.

Go to the BBC Music Day homepage to find out what is happening near you.

One of the first performances this morning was atop of the Severn Bridge joining England and Wales by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Amy Wadge. 

And of course, it's also New Music Friday with new material from the likes of Beck, Dexy's  Midnight Runners, LadyHawke and Tegan and Sara.

And you can catch up on yesterday's live page to read news about Madonna, new tracks from M.I.A. and The Avalanches, and find what's got Fetty Wap into hot water with his old high school. 

In the spirit of BBC Music Day, we'll start with this...