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So many times and song becomes a big hit and is remembered for years and then you find out that it was a last minute...
In this PC world we live in, it does make me wonder how some songs get away with some airplay and this week's choice...
Richard Adams, in 1972, wrote his first book Watership Down while he was working at the Department of the Environment....
Bruce Springsteen's Born in The U.S.A., Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin and Bob Marley's Get Up, Stand Up are...
Back in the sixties, the BBC had no issues narrating or broadcasting the works of Homer, Shakespeare and Dickens', a...
Yelling out for a Paul Hardcastle UK number one hit - could be a cryptic crossword clue for this week's single of the...
What do Frijid Pink, Grand Funk Railroad and Santa Esmeralda all have in common? No? They were all one-hit wonders...
11 The BBC's rules about banning songs, or 'restricting' them, as they now call it, have always been a bit ambiguous....
Many singers have titles bestowed upon them by their fans or the media. Elvis was The King of Rock 'N' Roll, Aretha...
It must be a nice feeling for a songwriter when they write something a little risqué and get away with it. The first...
How many times have you turned on the radio, usually commercial radio, and within a couple of hours you've heard the...
It's hard to think of the rock legend Peter Frampton as the leader of a teeny bop band, but they all had to start...
Until he passed away last October at the age of 94, Charles Aznavour was the oldest living male singer to have had a...
Groups containing siblings is nothing unusual, bands made up entirely of siblings is not too uncommon, but bands with...
There was an expression many years ago called turntable hit. Some younger people reading this won't even know what a...