"Manchester pair who plotted to murder Joss Stone song found guilty"

From The Manchester Evening News : A man was jailed for life today for plotting to murder a song originally performed by international pop s...

Short List

The three items on the previous Short List ( "Musicians who had a cameo rôle as a shop keeper in a major Hollywood film" ) are: R...

Red Noise Day

Fun Online Polls: Subsidies for windmills and solar panels & your favourite Armstrong

The results to last week's Fun Online Poll on an excellent turnout of 190 votes (thanks to everybody who took part) were as follows : Ho...

By-Tor and The Snow Dog*

* Minus By-Tor plus the little lass who made him.

Another six-year pop music cycle starts today*...

For some reason, a lot of people classify pop music into 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and so on, but there's no underlying logic or pattern or re...

When A Gearchange Is Born

Not in a stable two thousand years ago, but in the middle of this song after 2 minutes 20 seconds:

More Xmas Gear Changes! Four for the price of one!

Tommy Steele's version of "Must be Santa" from 1960 has at least four semi-tone gear changes in it, the first verse starts in ...

Proper Gearchange. Selecta!

"Proper Crimbo" by Bo Selecta is awesome. The chorus is basically "This Corrosion" by Sisters of Mercy speeded up, and ...

Fun Online Polls: Damian Green and silly lyrics

Thank you everybody who took part in last week's Fun Online Poll : What are the relative prices of a can of strong lager and a bottle of...

"Do They Know It's Bonus Time At All?"

By Sneaker, originally posted at HPC : It's bonus time, there's no need to be afraid At bonus time, we take in cash and we banish jo...

Xmas Gearchange

This one's from the otherwise most excellent 4-CD set called "Merry Xmas", available from HMV for £8 (that works out at 10p p...

Friday Night Gear Change

I've only just noticed that there's a gear change in "This Kiss" by Faith Hill. The song is in E but the chorus that start...

Life Imitates Art...

Link Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, 44, has been selling fish and chips from the back of a van in the sleepy English vill...

I don't want to grow up

Here's the pale imitation: Here's the original and best cover version (the original was by Tom Waits, but even though I heard that o...

Barack Obama/Bruce Springsteen Joke

Barack Obama was delighted when Bruce Springsteen turned up to one of his rallies , but told him that under the circumstances, it was probab...