The Righteous Brothers’ Bill Medley on Making a Country Album, Why He Said No to Covering George Jones and What Opening for the Beatles Was Like
Straight From the Heart isn’t Medley’s first flirtation with country: He had a string of entries on Billboard ’s Country ...
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7 Best Medley Songs That Give You Multiple Tracks for the Price of One
Why listen to one song when you can listen to three at once? We take a look at 7 incredible medley songs that let you do just that.
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The Classic Beatles Lyric George Harrison Arrived at “Randomly”
When people talk about The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," the first thing that's usually mentioned is how Eric Clapton guest-starred on the song. There's no doubt Clapton's colossal soloing ...
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Leonard Mambo Mbotela's Tribute: Embarambamba Releases Heartfelt Song for Fallen Journalist
Gospel singer Chris Embarambamba released a song paying tribute to former KBC journalist Leonard Mambo Mbotela, and credited ...
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Take a Girl Like Me: Life with George
But, like prattling couch patients, at least they’ve got it off their chests. We will examine Mrs Melly first. She was married with children when she met George – a cartoon-strip writer and belter of ...
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Only 83 songs have debuted at No. 1 in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 — here they all are
The Billboard Hot 100 is widely considered the definitive all-genre singles chart in the US. Although it was officially launched in 1958, Billboard began using modern airplay and sales data in ...
The Daily Telegraph16d
The Rev Dr Andrew Macintosh, Cambridge Hebraicist who helped re-translate the Psalms in the 1970s
He used little poems and songs to help his charges with grammar, and made a point of directing them towards “gossip” – biblical vignettes that relied on a knowledge that the Jewish ...
The Daily Telegraph17d
Diana Melly, author and wife of George Melly who became a leading light of London’s demi-monde
She rejected the label ‘long-suffering wife’ as inaccurate, and was irritated to be greeted at a party with ‘Hello, Diana, where’s George?’ Diana Melly, who has died aged 87, was the ...
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Diana Melly, author and wife of George Melly who became a leading light of London’s demi-monde
Diana Melly in 1970: her personal life was as complicated as it was chaotic - Daily Mail/Shutterstock ...
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Top 25 George Harrison ’70s Songs
He'd never be this musically active again. In this way, songs from his first decade as a solo act will always represent a golden era in George Harrison's career – and these are the 25 best ...
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The song George Michael thought he would never release: “It was crap!”
While George Michael may have his personal least favourite tunes from his catalogue, there’s a difference between a song that didn’t work and a song that should never be heard by human ears. Then ...
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The Biggest No. 2 Hot 100 Hits of All Time
It doesn’t take a Jones-like genius to determine why. Each song that peaks at those ranks, despite a clear vote of public favor, can come with a sliver of disappointment as a song’s creators ...