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A large proportion of the European music that ends up in the UK chart is generally a bit cheesy and tacky, but...

David Bowie hated his 1967-recorded song The Laughing Gnome which was belatedly released in 1973, he tried,...

James Morrison is a guitarist and singer/songwriter who is very often mistaken for James Blunt because of their...

In this day and age so many songs are credited with a 'featuring' act or an 'x' collaboration and thus usually...

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...