single

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,...

Tracks like Tequila Sunrise by the Eagles, Alright by Supergrass and California Girls by the Beach Boys, to name just...

This week’s songs is one that had been any American hit four times but in the UK only once and that is as a cover of...

The intros to Michael Jackson's Thriller and Wham!'s Club Tropicana, to name a couple, musically build a vivid image...

Charlene D'Angelo was born in Hollywood in 1950. She was discovered by the moguls of Motown Records who signed her to...

There is nothing like persistence as the LA's would know. They were formed in Liverpool in 1983 by original member...

Whenever there is talk about songs that were kept off number one in the chart, almost always, the most famous is...