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I'm not a songwriter but so many times we've heard it said that a songwriter wakes up with a song in their head the...

I first learned the truth of Janis Ian in 1979 when I was actually 16 and received a promo copy of Fly Too High. It...

The BBC have banned or 'restricted' so many songs over the years for so many different reasons and some of them quite...

This week's artist, depending on your age, will divide the reader as there will be some who didn't know about his...

This week's ground-breaking debut hit was rejected by numerous record companies so the band decided to finance it...

This week's suggestion came in from Mick who is very obviously a Steve Harley fan because his last request back in...

In the mid-late seventies there was a music sub-genre called pub rock, a genre you may not have heard of but the some...

This week's suggestion came from a lady who regularly does my online quiz and it made me wonder why she asked for it....

This week's suggestion features a singer with one of the most pure and distinctive voices of the 20th century. "I...

This week's suggested song has been covered by so many people it's hard to keep track of exactly how many. In all...

An email came in from David Robinson who said, "Hi Jon, a few weeks ago on your online quiz you asked a question about...

I do love it when someone puts out a morsel of information that eventually becomes legend only to find out it's not...

The first ever request for a Single of the Week came back in October 2011 and was MacArthur Park by Richard Harris and...

This week's suggestion came from a lady who said that when she heard Barry Manilow sing I Write the Songs on the radio...

Any song with a person's name in the title makes me wonder if it's a real person or not and if so, is it...