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Oh, how times have changed with technology. Long before email and mobile phones with text facility, the quickest way...

This suggestion came in about two months ago, but I thought I'd leave it until nearer Christmas because, although...

I still can't quite fathom how a great song falls just short of the number one slot and yet a cover, usually never as...

This week's suggestion came from Des Roberts, who used to attend by Sunday quiz many moons ago and he said, "Trawling...

There is almost no restriction of what can inspire a song writer to come up with an interesting story for a song. The...

This week's suggestion is one of those songs where your casual music fan would not believe that a cover version, which...

Some political songs have a habit of making the listener sit up and take notice and others have their political...

When I received the email requesting this song, the subject line said, "Did video really kill the radio star?" Reading...

This week's suggestion came out of a conversation with someone who believed, quite rightly, that I am a fan of Olivia...

  This week's suggestion comes from a long-forgotten singer who charted two songs in the 1950s. One was a...

How disheartening must it be for a songwriter to write a song they really believe in and love then to be told it's not...

Cover versions of songs done in a very different style from the acts who made them famous can often be a nice...

Artists, of the painting type, are not an obvious subject to sing about but Matt Monro praises Michelangelo in...

Neil Sedaka, alongside Neil Diamond, Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil...

If you you're a real music fan and, more so, like me, a chart watcher, it astounds me how certain big songs can...