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Some songwriter credits can be very deceiving. If you look at the writer credit on Elton John & Kiki Dee's Don't...
When a band decide to split, the best time to do it is not when your new single is climbing the chart. In 1970, Free...
What's the worst music career move ever made? Well, Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy might well qualify. An original member of...
This week's single of the week focuses on the fourth American / British duo to make the UK singles chart. Both were...
When people cite songs like Agadoo, The Birdie Song and, this week's single of the week, Shaddap You Face as being...
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,...