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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...

Many artists go to great lengths to prevent their material from being leaked before they are officially released, but...

You hear it so many times about a song being written in a matter of minutes and this week's subject is no exception....

This week's artist became a star by really being in the right place at the right time. Her parents both worked for a...

You would imagine songwriters like Paul McCartney, Carole King, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Elvis Costello et al...

This week's artist grew up in the heart of London, played piano in his father's restaurant, swept onto the pop scene,...

Question: Who was the first artist to take a Lennon & McCartney-penned song into the American singles chart some...