By Andy Hughes TAMLA Motown Records know a thing or two about making hits stick to a simple rule. With less than half a dozen exceptions, Motown singles fade out at the end of the song. ABC, on
00:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001By Andy Hughes Press Association Roger Daltrey'HOPE I die before I get old!' advised Roger Daltrey in 1965. Bearing in mind that Mr Daltrey is 57 this year, you have to presume his statement was
00:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001By Andy Hughes THIS week, barryclifton raised an interesting query about country DVD's. As the answer shows, if you want your country DVD's to play, you need to be sure which country you get your
00:00 Mon 05th Feb 2001By Andy Hughes EVERYONE knows who Pete Best is, even if they wouldn't recognise him quite as easily as the man who replaced him. Pete Best was the drummer in The Beatles, until Brian Epstein eased
00:00 Mon 05th Feb 2001 By Andy Hughes ANY band or pop act that plays Docklands Arena, or Madison Square Gardens had to start somewhere, and that 'somewhere' may well be the live music club in your town. If your town is
00:00 Mon 05th Feb 2001By Andy Hughes 'WHY do we never get an answer, when we're knocking at the door, with a thousand million questions ...' sang someone in a song, and now someone will post a question here asking whom
00:00 Mon 29th Jan 2001By Andy Hughes If you are looking for a supernova career in pop here are some records you can aim to beat: Press AssociationRod Stewart is a long way past the days when he had to perform free of
00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001By Andy Hughes AAHHHH, the Eurovision Song Contest, the perennial jamboree of middle-of-the-road pop combined with extreme political voting, a sure route to fame and fortune. Or is it Analysis
00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001By Andy Hughes HEAVY rock legends Led Zeppelin were right when they advised the listening world that 'the song remains the same.' It does, just the singers change from time to time. Crazy usesA
00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001By Andy Hughes FANCY being a pop star A makeover is essential. Lose that hairstyle, change your clothes, find some hip friends, oh, and don't forget to change your name. Some drop the family
00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001By Andy Hughes NOMINATIONS for this year's Grammys went into meltdown when bad boy rap artist Eminem was nominated for Best Album for his Marshall Mathers record. The phone lines and e-mail systems
00:00 Thu 11th Jan 2001By Andy Hughes FANS of the annual Glastonbury Music Festival were devastated to hear of this year's cancellation, by Festival founder Michael Eavis. The reasons for this year's cancellation
00:00 Mon 15th Jan 2001By Andy Hughes MUSIC enthusiasts across the globe are desperate to get their hands on the latest edition of the New Grove Dictionary Of Music and Musicians, Second Edition. They have been waiting
00:00 Sat 15th Jan 2000 The people have spoken (well, if you count Channel Four viewers and Observer readers), and Imagine by John Lennon has been voted the greatest No 1 single of all time. The single, which didn't
00:00 Sat 06th Jan 2001 MUSIC can make the strangest bedfellows. So what have David Bowie, John Denver and Queen got in common Here's a clue. They share the link with New Order and Chumbawumba. Got it Well, they've all
00:00 Fri 05th Jan 2001 By Penny Broadbent Ever wondered how some bands and artists got their name What possessed Vincent Furnier to become Alice Cooper, for example Easy. Young hopeful musician Vince was fooling around
00:00 Fri 05th Jan 2001 By Andy Hughes THE WORLD'S first Internet opera has just been composed and played out by German musical adventurer Eberhard Schoener. Schoener is in the final stages of composing and performing
00:00 Tue 11th Jan 2000By Andy Hughes TO SUCCEED in the fickle world of pop music you increasling need to be a pop actor, as well as a pop act. SClub7 were launched on the back of an all-singing, all dancing TV series
00:00 Tue 11th Jan 2000 "The genie's out of the bottle, now artists need to let the revolution happen." Says Alan Kovac, President of Left Bank Management, which represents The Bee Gees and Motley Crue among others. The
00:00 Tue 02nd Jan 2001Just what is it about Christmas that turns normally sane selective record buyers into whimsical culture-bypassed suckers for whichever puppet of the day has lined up some dreadful ditty for them to
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