Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel: The Bitter Farewell That Topped the...
Picture the scene across living rooms nationwide in 1975. Families huddled around the telly, waiting for Top of the Pops to broadcast the soundtrack...
Lisa Stansfield: How a Northern Lass Stunned the Charts
Picture the scene on a bleak winter evening in nineteen-eighty-nine. Millions of families across Britain were huddled around the telly, cradling a mug of...
When Bros Stormed The UK Charts And Changed Pop Forever
Picture the scene in the summer of 1988. Every living room telly across the nation flickered with the bright lights of Top of the...
Pete Burns and Dead or Alive: The Telly Shock That Stopped...
Picture the scene across living rooms in nineteen eighty-five. Families were huddled round the telly on a Thursday evening, waiting for Top of the...
The Rejected Chris de Burgh Ballad That Conquered Britain
Picture the scene across the nation in the autumn of 1986. Families are gathered around the telly, a copper kettle is humming softly on...
Midge Ure And The Casio Magic Behind Band Aid
Picture the scene: November 1984. While most families were gathered around the telly watching their favourite programmes, musician Midge Ure was sitting quietly on...
Bucks Fizz and the Eurovision skirt-rip trick that shocked the nation
Picture the scene on a damp Saturday evening in April 1981. Families across the UK are gathered around their glowing telly screens, clutching a...
Ian Dury: The Banned Anthem That Defined 1970s Britain
Picture the scene: it is late 1978, the nation is shivering through another bleak winter of industrial strikes, and families across the land are...
Leo Sayer: The Curly-Haired Icon Who Conquered the UK Charts
Picture the scene: it is 1977, the nation is gathered around the telly for Top of the Pops, and a mop of tight, curly...
Roy Wood and Wizzard: The Christmas Anthem That Never Hit Number...
Picture the scene. You are sat by the telly with a glass of sherry, the festive lights are twinkling on the tree, and suddenly...
Gilbert O’Sullivan: The Quiet Balladeer Who Shocked Hip-Hop
Picture the scene: a quiet Sunday evening in front of the telly, a comforting cup of tea in hand, and a gentle piano melody...
How Lonnie Donegan Ignited the British Rock Revolution
Picture Britain in the mid-fifties, a dreary landscape still weighed down by post-war rationing, where the wireless played respectable, polite tunes that could hardly...
David Essex: The Haunting 1973 Hit That Shocked The Charts
Picture the scene back in 1973: families gathered around the telly on a Thursday evening to watch Top of the Pops, expecting the usual...
How Hot Chocolate Almost Lost Their Greatest Soul Anthem
Picture the scene back in the late nineteen-seventies, when the British soul and funk landscape was undergoing a quiet revolution. Amidst the glittering lights...
Rollermania: How the Bay City Rollers Sparked 1970s Hysteria
Picture the scene across Britain in 1975. Every household telly was flickering with images of five lads from Edinburgh dressed in matching tartan trousers,...
How Paul Young Conquered the Charts in 1983
Picture the scene: it is the scorching summer of nineteen eighty-three. Families across Britain are gathering around their boxy Ferguson and Pye tellys, tuning...
How Dexys Midnight Runners Dethroned the King of Pop
Picture the scene in the summer of 1982. Families across Britain are gathered around the telly, children are playing out in the street until...
How a botched throat op created Bonnie Tyler’s voice
Picture the scene back in 1977. Families across Britain were gathered around the telly, watching Top of the Pops, while on the radio, a...
Why Shakin Stevens Had To Lock Away His Christmas Classic
Picture the scene: it is late nineteen eighty-four, families across Britain are glued to the telly, and the airwaves are dominated by the ultimate...
How Simple Minds Nearly Said No To Their Biggest 80s Anthem
Picture the scene back in the winter of 1984. Across the nation, families were gathered around the telly on a Thursday night, waiting for...






























