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This request came in about eight weeks ago, but I thought I'd wait until now because this is my 600th Single of the...
Not too many members of boy bands breakaway for an equally, if not more successful solo career, Ronan Keating, Justin...
This week's suggestion came in from mummybear following a conversation as to whether Nikita was a man or a woman....
Like Lennon and McCartney and Queen, in their later years, R.E.M. had an agreement that all the writing credits on all...
It's not very often I get asked to write about recent music so it was a pleasant change to receive this. The lady in...
. The first time I heard a Supertramp song was when Give A Little Bit charted in the summer of 1977. I heard it played...
I'm not a songwriter but so many times we've heard it said that a songwriter wakes up with a song in their head the...
I first learned the truth of Janis Ian in 1979 when I was actually 16 and received a promo copy of Fly Too High. It...
The BBC have banned or 'restricted' so many songs over the years for so many different reasons and some of them quite...
This week's artist, depending on your age, will divide the reader as there will be some who didn't know about his...
This week's ground-breaking debut hit was rejected by numerous record companies so the band decided to finance it...
This week's suggestion came in from Mick who is very obviously a Steve Harley fan because his last request back in...
In the mid-late seventies there was a music sub-genre called pub rock, a genre you may not have heard of but the some...
This week's suggestion came from a lady who regularly does my online quiz and it made me wonder why she asked for it....
This week's suggestion features a singer with one of the most pure and distinctive voices of the 20th century. "I...