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Back in the sixties and seventies, when you left school those who weren't massively educated either followed in the...

Do you know which pop star had the title chieftain of the Helmsdale Highland Games bestowed upon him in 2010? Well is...

Lulu, Brooksie and Scrubbie are three rather unusual nicknames for which the 1930s actress Louise Brooks was known....

Artists who name-check themselves in their own song is very common nowadays, especially in the rap genre, but it was...

When you hear yodelling you would think Holland, or The Netherlands as it likes to be known. That sound made a...

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...