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It's a wonder that this week's song was ever a hit at all given what people thought about it when it first surfaced....

Pub rock is one of the lesser remembered music genres that really only existed in the London area and occasionally...

So many stories about songs become folklore and people forevermore believe it's true. I've used this example before...

When the legendary broadcaster David Jacobs passed away just over a year ago, the replacement for his Sunday night...

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...