Pretty In Pink was a minor hit for The Psychedelic Furs, until a teen movie of the same name led to a transatlantic smash – and nearly split up the ...
Back in 2003, Sean Paul had the floors of every club in the world shaking with his dancehall classic Get Busy. Here, he reflects on its creation and how, much ...
When Tones And I wrote Dance Monkey, it was just another part of her busking set. But that didn’t last long. Here, Toni Watson recalls the birth of a monster ...
When we released Oh No (That’s The Word) in 2000, there were big billboards everywhere, but they didn’t show all So Solid members. That was one of my problems, trying ...
In 1983, Kajagoogoo exploded onto charts all around the world with Too Shy. Here, the group’s frontman Christopher ‘Limahl’ Hamill explains why this infectious song has endured from the 1980s ...
On April 6, aged 99, Captain Tom Moore started doing laps around his garden to raise money for the coronavirus-stricken NHS. Here, Michael Ball recalls how this noble act morphed ...
Crash was the biggest hit for The Primitives in 1988 – and helped many other alternative bands infiltrate Top Of The Pops. With a new box set, Bloom!, out now ...
In 1983, UK electronic music group Freeez scored an international hit – not to mention a UK No.2 – with their infectious single IOU. Here, the group’s founder John Rocca ...
The first cut from Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia, Don’t Start Now debuted at No.2 last November – and has barely left the UK Top 10 since. Here, co-writer and producer ...
When Shaggy wrote It Wasn’t Me after watching an Eddie Murphy show, he thought it was dynamite. Almost two million sales later, he’s been proved right, but it took a ...
