Greatest hits collections are very often big sellers, and for obvious reasons. But few have been as successful as the Carpenters’ The Singles 1969–1973, which was released in early November ...

Disco acts that were two-hit wonders in the 1970s include 5000 Volts, featuring Tina Charles, with I’m On Fire (1975, No 4) ...

Iconic singer and actor Marianne Faithfull, who provided one of the most prominent female voices of the British Invasion, ...

The Hollies uncovered a little-known song with a mouthful of a title. But they nonetheless created balladic magic with "He ...

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 ...

Norman Greenbaum achieved monumental success with "Spirit in the Sky" in 1969, a song that has become ... career did not take off beyond this hit, the song has endured over the decades, appearing ...

25: Mercy: Love (Can Make You Happy) (1969) There’s a very strange ... they’d have a worldwide dance hit a decade later, however catchy the song was. Fans of anarchist collectives from Leeds ...

Bottom line: This was the first hit song written by Mitchell, and she won a 1969 Grammy for Best Folk Performance. She wrote ...

A fresh-faced singer in the 1960s, she went on to experience more than her share of hard times before emerging triumphant in ...

Other stations chose to spin the single, and the song finally charted in January 1971, giving the Buoys, Holmes, and Scepter a hit. “It happened,” Brozena says, “just like Rupert said it was ...

Out of every category at the Oscars, Best Original Song consistently features more popular and mainstream films than other ...

And she was God – in two episodes of Absolutely Fabulous. “Of course I have regrets, I’m not stupid,” she said on turning 60.