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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...

Some of the cheesiest songs are the best remembered, but no-one wants to admit to liking them. It more recent times,...

The North-East of England was a bit of a latecomer when it came to being identified on the UK chart scene. Arguably,...

It's amazing how some songs that seems so simple and straightforward can be so convoluted and misunderstood. This week...

The 1960s saw many dance crazes come and go, but, arguably, the most successful was the twist. Hank Ballard and...

There are conspiracy theorists in every walk of life. There are people who will tell you that the Holocaust was an...

Madonna, Kylie, Lulu, Tina Turner and Dusty, to name a few, have all famously re-invented themselves after varying...