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At the start of 1976, there was a slight lull in the UK music scene with glam having disappeared about a year earlier...

How good or bad any music is, is always an opinion. So many arguments have been caused by people disputing whether a...

When you decide to want to launch a career in pop music, why would you want to keep your identity a secret? The first...

When it comes to Norwegian acts making the UK chart you can count them on one hand. It's likely A-Ha will spring to...

So many songs are written about real people, be it a husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, manager, mother etc and...

Do any of these names mean anything to anyone:- Victoria Wallace, Vera Brown, Shirley Porter, Sundray Tucker, Freddie...

The first time I was aware of a song I heard on the radio being different from the one I bought in the shop was in...

Oh how the charts rules have changed over the years and how different they are from America. 20 years ago the American...

Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Justin Timberlake, Demi Lovato and Christina Aguilera all did it. Did what you ask? They...

Question: Which group described themselves and their music from the outset as, "A mess of eyeliner and spray paint"...

Many artists are given nicknames, usually by fans or the record companies, Elvis Presley was the King of rock 'n'...

How unlucky can one musician be? Well Nick Straker may well know the answer. Nick was born Nicholas Bailey in c. 1952...

Years ago, back in the mid-eighties, I was the resident DJ in a nightclub called The Mayfair in Southampton where I...

In 1982, a television drama about five unemployed men who would do anything for work in Thatcher's era hit the UK TV...

So many of David Bowie's song are catchy and memorable, but in 1983 David, always the leader and innovator and never...