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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...

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...