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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...

This week's choice will be unfamiliar to many readers as the song was never a UK hit, received very little airplay and...

This week's choice is an old standard made famous by a rockabilly singer who earned his nickname from the way he sang....

Many songs have been inspired by a film, for example, John Hartford wrote Gentle on my Mind after seeing the 1965 film...

The true definition of a 'turntable hit' is a song that received substantial radio airplay but failed to make the...

When I saw this week's suggestion, I thought, really? Why? Then I looked to see who had such a suggestion and noticed...

For the very determined, if someone says you can't do something or something will never happen, they will go out of...

Bryan Ferry, like Rod Stewart, were just two people from a very elite list of singers who managed to concurrently...

In any survey of the top drummers in the world, Keith Moon would always be assured a place in the top five. The Who's...

Only five songs with a mode of transport in the title have reached number two, Johnny Duncan was the first, and the...