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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...

In the early 2000s when the reality TV shows hit us en masse, a lot of the older, experienced singer/songwriters were...

In 1981, after two decades with Motown Records, Diana changed labels. She signed a $20m contract with RCA in America...

George was an exceptional talent who was more than just a singer. When he hit number one in 1987 with A Different...

This week's suggestion came from Andrew Austin who emailed saying, "How about the band Glass Tiger song Don't Forget...

This week's suggestion was purely an album track until the singer pointed out to his record label that it was clearly...

This week's suggestion came in from Mike Grosvenor who said, "Hi Jon, I love story songs and would love to know the...

This week's suggestion was yet another song that was championed by John Peel who played it on his late-night Radio 1...

This week's suggestion is by a band that fall into the minority category of having success, and two resurgences each...

When you hear or read the title of this week's suggestion you either think this is a sad song because someone has...