After writing the first three chords, I knew something was happening,” Mick Jones recalled of the night in 1984 when he wrote ...

The Official UK Singles Chart reflects the UK’s biggest songs of the week, based on audio and video streams, downloads, CDs and vinyl, compiled by the Official Charts Company. The UK Top 40 is ...

The Southwark plaque scheme takes nominations from the public which are put to a vote. The plaque said they "achieved ...

Rusholme Ruffians (from Meat Is Murder, 1985) West Side Story hits a fairground ... 12-inch B-side, 1984) The juddering, swampy atmospherics of Marr’s guitar soundscapes and Morrissey’s gold standard ...

From those who toiled behind the scenes to those who were performers themselves but never made the marquee, here are just a few of the secret songwriters responsible for some of the greatest hits.

Another member of the Marron family, Samuel, featured at a previous inquiry by international experts into the use of plastic ...

From Prince to Joni Mitchell and Macca to the Bee Gees, the stars who were in such a creative purple patch that they had classics going spare and shopped them elsewhere.

Layering one improvised idea on top of another, songs began to take shape in the recording process, before being refined in the editing. With more and more players and technicians contributing to ...

Ahead of Sunday’s 67th Grammys, here’s a ranked list of all 66 songs that have won record of the year since the Recording ...

That led to work on Private Dancer, released in May 1984 and which went to No ... "Better Be Good to Me" and the title track, all U.S. Top 10 hits. There are also discs of B-sides, single ...

Determining which song was Elvis’ biggest hit is a tricky thing. Over the course of a career that began with 1954’s Sun single “That’s All Right,” (which sold around 20,000 copies ...

Not every band is looking to put anything too dramatic into their songs. The concept of a silly love song works for a reason, and half of the greatest tunes of all time have become so because of ...