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The artist of this week's suggested single has a special place in my heart. It was her 1975 album Between the Lines...

The Rolling Stones, like The Beatles, had so many well-known album tracks that your average person in the street could...

Three months ago, I was asked to write the story behind Chicory Tip's 1972 chart-topper Son of my Father and I noted...

This week's suggestion, which came from Marsha, began as a simple question about the song's spoken foreign language...

This week's suggestion is a song I bought at the time after hearing it on the Radio 1 breakfast show with Dave Lee...

Quite a number of songs are thought to be about drugs which the song writers have fiercely denied; Lucy in the Sky...

When one superstar asks another superstar to write them a song and the reply is, "I don't think I have time" you would...

I can't imagine what it would be like to have a vocation in life, give it go only to find it didn't work out the way...

The amount of people I have conversations with who think Nena, who had the 1984 chart-topper 99 Red Balloons, is an...

In July 2017, the Official Charts Company (OCC) changed the rules surrounding the compilation of the UK Singles chart...

If you ask virtually anyone who was into music in the 1980s how many hit singles Midnight Oil had, they are likely to...

It often amazes the kids when they sing a song that is in the chart and turn around and find their parents are singing...

This isn't the first time I've written about a Cat Stevens song, in fact, it's the third. The prolific singer...

This week's request comes from one of the members of my top pop quiz teams, Richard Hunter who emailed to say, "I...

How many times do you hear about a band who write and record their own material and struggle to get anywhere. Then,...