Oh Mr Songwriter!
Is it possible to make a bad lyric even worse? Babelfish provides some intriguing answers.
(Type type type…) “‘And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,...
Pop Before The Beatles (Part Two: Parnes, Shillings and Pence)
Britain in the late 1950s: rock and roll is still treated with suspicion - considered a playground for hooligans, associated with American rebellion, wild teenagers, social breakdown and sexual...
Pop Before The Beatles (Part One, 1961)
Trad jazz, Helen Shapiro, The Twist, the beginning of Tamla Motown, instrumental pop, million-selling LPs - these were the outstanding features of pop in 1961.
Schoolgirl popstar and “British...
C’mere’n'I’tell’yiz, righ’?
To hell with reason, give me the thoroughly irrational thrill of pop any day.
Mini Viva
You can be forgiven for missing it, but ex-Creation boss Alan McGee recently wrote a blog post for The Guardian wherein he compared Charlotte Church to Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine...
