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‘I’d Never Find Another You’: Billy Fury Sings Goffin & King

In August 1961, Billy Fury’s cover of American singer Tony Orlando’s hit “Halfway To Paradise” became his biggest single to date in the UK, spending...

‘Trombipulation’: How Parliament Retooled Funk For The 80s

In 1980, tastes began to change swiftly within the music world. Just as quickly as disco had ascended, it was rapidly fading away. Hip-hop had...

‘Beach Boys Concert’: First Live LP Becomes Their First US No.1 Album

By the end of 1964, the Beach Boys were established as one of America’s top groups. In less than three years, they’d placed no fewer...

‘Meet The Supremes’: A Belated Introduction For British Album Buyers

On December 5, 1964, the Supremes were big international news and made the UK LP chart for the first time, by inviting us to Meet The...

‘Angel Eyes (Home And Away)’: Wet Wet Wet Pop In For A Third Hit

1987 was a landmark year for the hottest Scottish pop group of the day. Wet Wet Wet had formed in Glasgow five years earlier and...

‘Gimme Shelter’: How The Rolling Stones Captured The Death Of The 60s

Keith Richards was sitting in a London flat in Mayfair on a stormy day in 1969, thinking about Chuck Berry riffs as he strummed on...

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