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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...

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...