The Kiss star recently claimed music had been "murdered" by those who refused to invest in the next generation of artists, and said illegal downloading had devalued recorded work to near-zero.

That led to responses from Robert Plant, Poison's Rikki Rockett and Twisted Sister's Dee Snider. Now Rossdale tells Howard Stern (via Blabbermouth): "I don't think it's dead. Nothing is ever dead in music - it just takes the right record."