The 1980 song Pete Townshend called his greatest work: “This is one of the best songs I’ve ever written”

For all of the great conceptual masterpieces Pete Townshend made, the best songs can sometimes be the most simple tunes.

The 1995 song that features Eddie Van Halen destroying a piano

Eddie Van Halen was known to rip it up on the guitar, but in one song from an album released in 1995, it was the piano he ...

Does it feel like much of today’s music sounds the same? You might not be wrong

I decided to leave it there for a while to check out today’s hot hits. Without sounding like Grampa Simpson, I found the ...
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5 songs that prove 1977 was the best year for disco by far

Disco peaked in 1977, with the era's hottest acts, such as Donna Summer, at their finest, along with rising stars putting ...

My pick of the Scottish shows to look out for at the Edinburgh Fringe

Audiences will have more than 3600 shows to choose from when the world's biggest arts festival returns in August.
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Revisiting I Created Disco by Calvin Harris

Sometimes, emerging acts can come to the attention of enterprising record-company A&R men purely by chance. Calvin Harris is a case in point. Some 20 years ago, Mike Pickering was working in A&R with ...

7 Songs You Didn't Know Lionel Richie Wrote

Born on June 20, 1949 in the small city ofTuskegee, Alabama, Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. would go on to become one of American ...

The 10 Most Meticulously Constructed Thrillers of All Time

Many great thrillers have found success through meticulous and detailed storytelling, including classics like Zodiac, ...
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8 international thrillers you'll wish you watched sooner

We all love a slick Hollywood thriller, but some of the most inventive, tense, and unpredictable films in the genre never see a wide American release. They win awards in their home countries and earn ...