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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...

This week's suggestion is, again, a relationship song - the ones that have mass appeal and ones that are better...

This week's request is one of those songs that few people in the UK will know the singer, but the song you may because...

Relationship breakups are always a good source of material for song writing. The Eurythmics are a good example as most...

Cole Porter, who was not Jewish, must have been influence by one somewhere along the line because he once claimed that...

The year 1967 was the Summer of Love and those who were there will know what went on, well some might anyway. It was...

Songs that deal with an everyday, real life, situations that so many can identify with should be, and often are, big...

Very few groups can boast the same line up for an eternity. The Four Tops hold the record having had the same line up...

There's a certain poignancy that Men in Black should be number one in the UK on a day when millions of people around...

Over the years, a number of singers have turned into radio broadcasters and using Radio 2 as an example, Jimmy Young,...

Back in the day, a number of radio DJs went on to become successful singers especially in America, Jim Reeves,...