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With the whole world having just endured a pandemic where for a while everything was shut down, no one was allowed to...

John Jones emailed to say that the second half of 1981 was memorable for him for two reasons, on the happy side it was...

Some songs are so well known but never made the chart and you wonder why. Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl, Eagles' Life...

Earlier this year it was announced that Neighbours was coming to an end after 32 years in the UK. More announcements...

This week's suggestion was described, in 1976, by the American DJ Casey Kasum as, "The biggest hit on the American...

Xanadu, Heaven, Hotel California and China Grove are among many song titles about mythical places. Penny Lane, Last...

People who write TV shows like Jonathan Creek and films like The Sixth Sense have my utter admiration. To able to...

Until he joined 10cc in the early 70s Graham Gouldman was an unsung hero of the song writing world having written hits...

The first time I ever saw Yazz, but didn't know it as she wasn't famous then, was when I was travelling through...

Psychedelia was a short-lived genre in the late sixties. There were a number of psychedelic bands with very...

It's every song writer's dream to have just one of their songs used in a film or advert. It makes it more memorable,...

This week's song, in its original form, was a fairly gentle ballad which barely scraped into the chart when initially...

666 may be the number of the devil, but it was a good number for U2 as With or without You was the 666th Billboard Hot...

Don't you just love a song where you sing along to all the words and then realise that those words make no sense...

This week's song came out of a conversation with Group Jam, one of my regular teams at my Thursday night quiz in...