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Elvis Presley is the biggest-selling musical act in chart history. some 44 years after his death he is still having...
To find out what a girl wants, you could ask the man from the legendary Milk Tray advert who ski-ed down a mountain...
Many of the The Beatles songs were inspired by real life stories and the band have inspired hundreds, if not...
There are literally hundreds of music genres and sub genres and many are restricted to certain areas around the world,...
Hot Chocolate are a prime example of a great British band with a huge catalogue of well-written hits, but British...
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...