Teddy Pendergrass

Teddy Pendergrass was the lead singer with Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes before launching a solo career. He had a tragic life when a car accident in 1982 left him paralysed from the waist down and he was never able to walk again. He died in January 2010 at the age...

Number one albums with one week on chart

In a current chart climate where the music industry big-up new albums for them to enter the chart high and sink, almost without trace, the following week, it feels very much like the singles chart of the 1990s and early 2000s. Unless you’re a big named star,...

Written for and turned down by….

Here is a list of 35 songs that were written for other people, but, for one reason or another, they didn’t record them. Song Written for Biggest UK hit version Don’t Forbid Me Elvis Presley Pat Boone We Will Make Love Frankie Vaughan Russ Hamilton Stupid...