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How many times have you heard a song only to find out it's not quite what you thought? A story with a twist is...

Many songs start as poems, one of the most famous is Harry Chapin's Cats In The Cradle which was only intended as poem...

"I would liken having a number one hit the way we did, rather like Haley's Comet. It's rather like walking down the...

British songwriters Tony Waddington and Wayne Bickerton began writing fifties style doo-wop songs in the early...

Just two months after The Firm had immortalised the Star Trek characters in their chart topping hit, Star Trekkin,...

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...