Upgraded OS - all music disappeared

I upgraded to OS 10.2.0.424 and restarted this morning, and my phone has lost all my music (although irritatingly the "Recently Played" tile shows the artwork of the albums I was listening to before the upgrade). In the folder there is apparently "No Music". I don't have my music backed up through Link because I don't have administrative priveleges to instal Link at work, so I can't just reload it. Help please...

Hello, oxxnarr.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Try forcing all open applications to close and then power cycle the device. Once this is done test downloading your music again via the steps in the second article.
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Cheers,
Jason H.

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