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On week-ending 6th April 1974, there was something unique about the top three UK singles that week. There was Emma by...

The Specials featuring Rico were the first to do it, Queen Latifah and Del La Soul, together, did it 11 years later,...

This week, I look at a song that began life in Italy - as a love song which never charted in the UK. The song has...

Nelson Mandela is certainly the most famous South African to be exiled but a close second has to be a singer who was...

  In 1968 one particular band were outselling acts like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Monkees with one...

"I think something that set me apart was that I could have been a conventional songwriter, with piano and voice. I'm...

Last month we lost the great jazz musician Al Jarreau, but as I noted in his obituary, the general public would not...

If you are of a certain age, you'll remember the time when TV adverts were memorable mainly because of a particular...

Back in the late 1970s, a Birmingham rock band called City Boy finally hit the big time after three years of hard...

If you want to hear a good story in song, look no further than Squeeze. The prolific songwriting duo of the band's...

Funny how is a common way of opening a sentence. Those two words also feature in the titles of five UK hit singles -...

So many musicians get given a title, James Brown, for example, was the Godfather of Soul, Elvis Presley was the King...

This week's subject is Sam Cooke's Civil Rights protest song A Change Is Gonna Come and what inspired him to record it...

Germany gave us some wonderful musicians, classical composers like Beethoven, Bach, Brahams, Wagner, Strauss,...

Every cloud has a silver lining, so they say, and for Judy Clay it was a very small cloud. She was so highly respected...