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Wiggles has been hounding me to write about this song for weeks, but apart from having heard the song, I knew little...

This week's song was chosen by General Blee who emailed to say, "I had forgotten how good Lido Shuffle was and how...

This week's suggestion is from Milkybarnick who emailed to say, "I wondered if Floyd Cramer's On the Rebound was worth...

The video era really came to life in 1981 with the birth of MTV, but of course, there were videos before that and it's...

Three weeks ago, I covered the story of Keeping the Dream Alive by Freiheit, a song that has nothing to do with...

If you came along to one of my quizzes and I asked you which seventies hit was written about Kate Barker, a woman who...

Since the video age, which began in the early eighties, the record companies try to promote an act not only on their...

East 17's Stay Another Day, David Essex's A Winter's Tale, Jona Lewie's Stop the Cavalry and various versions of Let...

The UK singles chart was introduced in November 1952 when Percy Dickens decided to telephone a number of record shops...

Films and their title or characters have been many an inspiration for a song and Steven Spielberg's 1982 alien...

This week's single has been recorded by hundreds of people and some under a different title entirely. It's a selfless...

Everyone has a musical hero, I have two and they are both drummers; The Who's Keith Moon and Blondie's Clem Burke....

Can you believe it? In the same week, I get requests for two different songs by the same artist. Last Week I wrote...

This week's song is by an artist who has won 25 Grammy Awards which is more than any other solo artist, and was...

Three weeks ago, I wrote the story of In the Air Tonight which was inspired by Phil Collins' marriage break up. Phil...