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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...

1995 was the year that Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, aka the Chemical Brothers burst onto the music scene, it was also...

Whenever you mention The Eagles so someone, it's likely that the first song that will spring to mind will be Hotel...

Paul Carrack is celebrating his 40th year in the music business this year. He first burst onto the scene in 1974 with...

It's amazing that when people can't work out what a song is about they speculate usually in a negative way. In some...

Twin brothers in bands are not too common, the most successful arguably being the Bee Gees, but Biffy Clyro, who so...

     Eamon   Frankee The first known use of the F-word was in 1503 in the poetry of William Dunbar and so when...

Fake accents and false laughs are two things I hate in songs, and Peter Sarstedt's 1969 number one hit Where Do you Go...

  If you thought The Divine Comedy, The Streets and Shakespears Sister were all groups, you'd be wrong. They were...

This week's single of the week was requested by chillo1959 because it was number one when he was born. It was also at...

It's not often that a group work so hard without commercial success, then re-adjust the line-up, give themselves a new...

"I am a one hit wonder who wants to be a two hit wonder," admitted Peter Coyle, the lead singer of the eighties band...