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For ever and a day, recording music has been an expensive business, from booking studio time, musicians and a producer...

Roberta Flack, Anne Murray, Sting, Bryan Ferry and Clifford T. Ward, among others, all have one thing in common and...

Elvis Presley did it in the fifties, Joe Cocker did it in the sixties, Hall & Oates did in the seventies and Rick...

In this day and age, bands and singers do not even need the backing of record companies to launch their career. With...

The late 70s and early eighties was the big disco era and many bands established a long-term and successful career....

Another mystery character surrounds the title of this week's Single of the Week, and the reason is probably because...

Many things inspire songwriters, last week I wrote about Walk Away Renee of which the writer, Michael Brown was...

    Patti Boyd must have been very flattered when she had three songs written about her. The leggy blonde, who has...

Bubblegum pop is term that gets bandied around occasionally and when it does, it's usually applying to something a bit...

Mad World hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going...

So many new fangled terms to describe genres of music crop up all the time, some stick around for years like Rock...

In the 1960s, payola was rife especially in America. This is where promotion people used to pay radio DJs and...

Arguably, the Monkees were the first group to be assembled and were done so by Don Kirshner. Since then many producers...

Like the Walker Brothers in the 60s, Blondie initially found greater fame in the UK than their native America. Their...

Once in a while a band or singer will come along have a nano second of success and then disappear but leave a...