Released in 1982, this soft-rock anthem has become an unlikely viral smash-hit. Africa by Toto...
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Released in 1982, this soft-rock anthem has become an unlikely viral smash-hit. Africa by Toto...
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How Mozart's Requiem, written when he was dying, has touched and changed people's lives. Crime...
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"Jerusalem" has become a quintessentially middle-class and very English song, but it is held in...
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"Dancing in the Dark was written under duress!" Bruce Springsteen tells us. "I had no interest,...
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“I follow the Moskva, down to Gorky Park… listening to the wind of change.” The German rock band...
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Personal stories about Farewell to Stromness, by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Written in 1980 as a...
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Performed as part of the mystery plays, the 'Coventry Carol' is from the Pageant of the Shearman...
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“It’s a goodbye song, but it’s also an inspirational song, It could also mean a new beginning" -...
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Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay
Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay was written while Otis Redding was reflecting on his life on...
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"While I'm worth my room on this earth......" Sunshine on Leith was released in 1988 but didn't...
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Powerful stories linked to this beautiful and stirring Ukrainian folk song which inspired Pink...
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"I don't believe in an interventionist God" has to be one of the most original opening lines to a...
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Killing Me Softly with His Song
"Strumming my pain with his fingers... Singing my life with his words..." Killing Me Softly...
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'None shall sleep'. Jon Christos watched the Italia 90 World Cup with his Dad and says that the...
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I Believe In Father Christmas is neither although lyricist Peter Sinfield concedes it does...
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When I Only Have Eyes For You first emerged in 1934 it was a jaunty ditty written by Harry Dubin...
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'Feed The Birds' was written for the film Mary Poppins by Richard and Robert Sherman.
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America's national anthem was written by a lawyer, Francis Scott Key, after watching the British...
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'The Way You Look Tonight' was written by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields for the 1936 film 'Swing...
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The Brecht/Weill song, 'Mack The Knife' first appeared in 'The Threepenny Opera' in Berlin in...
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