single

Many things inspire songwriters, last week I wrote about Walk Away Renee of which the writer, Michael Brown was...

    Patti Boyd must have been very flattered when she had three songs written about her. The leggy blonde, who has...

Bubblegum pop is term that gets bandied around occasionally and when it does, it's usually applying to something a bit...

Mad World hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going...

So many new fangled terms to describe genres of music crop up all the time, some stick around for years like Rock...

In the 1960s, payola was rife especially in America. This is where promotion people used to pay radio DJs and...

Arguably, the Monkees were the first group to be assembled and were done so by Don Kirshner. Since then many producers...

Like the Walker Brothers in the 60s, Blondie initially found greater fame in the UK than their native America. Their...

Once in a while a band or singer will come along have a nano second of success and then disappear but leave a...

1995 was the year that Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, aka the Chemical Brothers burst onto the music scene, it was also...

Whenever you mention The Eagles so someone, it's likely that the first song that will spring to mind will be Hotel...

Paul Carrack is celebrating his 40th year in the music business this year. He first burst onto the scene in 1974 with...

It's amazing that when people can't work out what a song is about they speculate usually in a negative way. In some...

Twin brothers in bands are not too common, the most successful arguably being the Bee Gees, but Biffy Clyro, who so...

     Eamon   Frankee The first known use of the F-word was in 1503 in the poetry of William Dunbar and so when...