‘You Really Got A Hold On Me’: the only pop song Elvis Costello couldn’t live without
At least in a desert island context.
Author: Andrew Clayman Archives: 10/2025
Which actors have had a number one song?
Not necessarily the coolest club to be a part of, surprisingly.
The Animals’ Eric Burdon identified the “secret of life” back in 1967
His drummer had a valid counterpoint.
The story behind the best-selling number one song of 1973
The sentimental hit was inspired by a story from the ‘Reader’s Digest’.
Far Out 40: The best of the Leeds art punk movement of the 1980s
Never overlook the other side of the Pennines.
“It told me its name”: The Steve Vai song that demanded to be written
It took 10 years for the original idea to come to fruition.
Could ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ have been one album?
They were famously recorded at the same time, but were they parted for the betterment of humanity?
Which artist spent the most weeks in the charts in 1977?
The Eagles? Fleetwood Mac? ABBA? Or perhaps a TV cop?