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The majority of singer/songwriters will be influenced at a young age and will naturally show a flare for writing,...

Many musicians have nicknames that you instantly recognise them by. If I said Slowhand, apart from thinking of a...

If I were to ask you randomly to spell the title of this week's Single of the Week choice, I bet most of you would not...

Who would have guessed that an Al Bowlly song called My Woman from 1932 would eventually end up on a number one hit. A...

It has been fairly well documented over the years that Elton John's 1975 hit Philadelphia Freedom was written about...

Isn't it amazing how bands, when they shorten their name, become more successful? For example, Ambrose Slade did far...

So many songs are written about people who are not relatives of the writer, nor are they famous outside their own...

Many songwriters will claim that some songs come to them in a dream. Paul McCartney famously wrote Yesterday after the...

It would seem that when Be-Bop Deluxe turned up on the scene, their sound was a bit lost between genres, crossing like...

Pop question of the week: who is the only charting singer born in The Lebanon? Answer Michael Holbrook Penniman!, No,...

If I were to ask you to guess how many Canadian one-hit-wonder duos made the UK singles chart, you'd probably wouldn't...

Gina Gardiner, who was born in Brisbane on 3 August 1970, moved to Melbourne in 1987 and began DJing in the local...

This week's track is from an American crooner who had minimal success in the UK, but it probably didn't bother him...

When the disco era started in the early 70s, many thought it was just a fad that would come and go quite quickly,...

Until the compilation of the UK chart was done digitally, the sales of singles were, shall we say, less than accurate,...