Jon Anderson

For former lead singer with the prog rock band Yes, Jon Anderson is 80 this week. His career began in the early 60s as the vocalist with a  band called The Warrior, who is brother Tony was already a member of, before attempting a solo career. He was invited to join...

George McCrae

George McCrae is 80 this week. Born in Florida, He married Gwen when he was 19 and went straight into the US Navy. After his service he reformed a group he had been in prior to Service called the Jivin’ Jets and Gwen became part of the line-up. In 1973, Harry...

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 what is the most popular number. So for this criteria, if the title starts with 100 or 1000 they have been discounted, it’s purely the numbers...

Sam Brown

Sam Brown is 60 this week. Her mum and dad were famous musicians, dad Joe, is still on the road performing and her mother was Vicki Brown who died in 1991 age 50, but she was a member of the Vernon’s Girls and The Breakaways. Joe never had a UK number one but...