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This week's Single of the Week is by a legend. I first remember him in 1970 shouting out "Oakworth" in the classic...

In this 21st century of reality talent shows, not a huge number of the winners sustain a long and healthy career, but...

By the mid-nineties the UK music scene was very dance orientated (it was either that or Britpop) and one of the...

When certain songs arrive on the scene it's very often quickly established what the song's content is about especially...

Songwriting duos, especially in the sixties, were very common and very successful, Lennon & McCartney, Goffin and...

When INXS first hit the UK chart with What you Need in 1986 it went relatively unnoticed. The song only reached number...

Very few musicians have success with one band, success with another and then as a solo artist. Paul McCartney would be...

I do love it when there's a discrepancy as to who recorded a particular song first. That gets me digging even deeper...

A lot of megastars unofficially earn themselves a nickname and most of the time they are flattering, Elvis Presley was...

One of the greatly respected band in the late sixties were Traffic who formed in April 1967 in Birmingham and...

Up until December 2013 when an internet campaign was launched to get them to number one for Christmas, AC/DC held the...

When Oasis split in 2009, it wasn't obvious which of the Gallagher brothers was going to forge a solo career if...

Some singers have such a command of a song that the listener is convinced it's their own song. One such singer is...

The first hit single to use the term rock and roll in the title was Kay Starr's 1956 number one hit Rock and Roll...

Once upon a time a record company would sign an act they believed it and give them money up front to record an album...