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Top 40 most popular ‘non-classical’ tracks on Desert Island discs
This month in 1941, Roy Plomey came up with the idea for Desert Island Discs and wrote to the BBC, who jumped at the...
Facts about the U.S. AC chart
The Adult Contemporary (AC) chart launched in July 1961 and originally known as Easy Listening, it was known as...
A dozen facts about the U.S Country music charts:
In 2000, Kenny Rogers, at the age of 61, becomes the oldest artist to achieve a number one country song with Buy Me A...
Facts to (hopefully) interest you
In August 1983, Peter Stewart of Birmingham, UK set a world record by disco dancing for 408 hours. The male speaking...
Hyphens
At a quiz recently, someone asked me, quite randomly, how many solo artists have a hyphen in their name. I thought of...
Numbers that start a title
A request from Debra following a round in the quiz with song titles that start with the numbers 1 to 10, and she asked...
Number ones that start and end with the same letter
Since the chart's inception in 1952 up to and including the current chart-topper, just 62 titles start and end with...
Import singles
Between 1981 and 2007, a total of 57 singles made the UK chart as an import copy prior to its UK release. Those were...
Herbie Flowers
We recently learned of the death of the bass player Herbie Flowers whom I had the pleasure of interviewing back in...
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – Part 8
And so to the final five years of the 2010s 2016 Cheap Trick Kid Rock Chicago Rob Thomas Deep Purple Lars Ulrich...
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – Part 7
As we move into the first five years of the 2010s 2011 Alice Cooper Rob Zombie Neil Diamond Paul Simon Dr John John...
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – Part 6
And the last half of the 2000s.... 2006 Black Sabbath James Hefield / Lars Ulrich Blondie Shirley Manson Miles Davis...