What makes for the best breakup song? Well, since the beginning of time, romance has served as the inspiration to many musical compositions. But for
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Beach Boys ‘409″https://www.udiscovermusic.com/”Surfin’ Safari’ artwork – Courtesy: UMG Things were never quite the same again for the young men from Hawthorne, California called the Beach
What are some of the best movie songs? Well, we’re talking about a lineage that started in the mid-40s through to the 60s, when Hollywood
Peggy Lee’s granddaughter, Holly Foster Wells, has teamed up with the Great American Songbook Foundation to create a video paying tribute to Lee’s singular style.
The legacy of George Harrison is never far from our minds, both for his brilliant musicianship and visionary humanitarianism. But just as he had to
In 50-plus years of recording, Peggy Lee dipped into jazz, pop, Afro-Cuban, stage and movie music, and much more. But a trio of releases from
When The Mamas & The Papas climbed from No.12 to No.9 in the UK chart at the tail-end of the Summer Of Love in August 1967 with “Creeque
There are many albums on which the Beach Boys underlined that they were an immensely creative collective, and far from being entirely reliant on the
Peggy Lee wasn’t the first to record Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s “I’m A Woman,” but when she did, she owned it entirely. A classic
As The Ed Sullivan Show was to the US, or Der Musikladen (follow-up to Beat-Club) was to Germany, so Top Of The Pops was to