Dion & The Belmonts: My Girl The Month of May
Frankie Avalon, Johnny Tillotson, Brian Hyland, Fabian, Bobby Rydell: by the mid-1960s many teen idols of the pre-Beatles era were already…
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Thanks for stumbling upon my retirement project and labour of love, Here Comes The Song. Here you'll find the latest blogs from music fanatics about their favourite songs and the artists who wrote them. It really is about the music that moves us...
Gene Clark: She Don't Care About Time – the greatest B-side ever?
Imagine a hall of fame for comic actors that neglected Groucho Marx or Charlie Chaplin. Or an academy for film directors which excluded…
Bennett Wilson Poole: Chimes of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Nearly 4,000 miles separate a parking lot on the campus of Kent State University in north-eastern Ohio and the pavement outside the Market…
How I wrote Hate Won't Win for Bennett Wilson Poole album
The song Hate Won’t Win was in direct response to the killing of the MP Jo Cox in 2016. The news broke on that Thursday just after she was…
'Tis the season to be different: an alternative festive playlist
Presenting an alternative festive playlist… to show there's more to Christmas music than Noddy Holder, Roy Wood, Shakin’ Stevens and that…
Otis Redding: Try A Little Tenderness – and a lot of soul
Otis Redding died 50 years ago on December 10. Blessed with an achingly soulful, high-voltage voice and force-of-nature stage presence, he…
Indelible mark of Zevon: 10 more from the songwriter's songwriter
Surreal, darkly comic tale of revenge from the 1978 album Excitable Boy and the last song Warren Zevon played live, on The Late Show with…
Warren Zevon: Desperados Under The Eaves
Depending on whose account of music history you prefer, 1976 was the year punk rock broke through with an amphetamine rush or the year disco
Future Islands: Seasons (Waiting On You)
It was the day after The Late Show on American television. Emails began dropping in my inbox. OMG, did you see this video? Watch the singer…
Diana Ross & The Supremes: Reflections
You will shortly be bombarded with guff about the Summer Of Love, the flowering of hippiedom in San Francisco 50 years ago. Newspapers which
The Kinks: Waterloo Sunset and a very English coup
From Route 66 to 34th & Vine via Memphis, Massachusetts and Frisco Bay, the places British singers and bands celebrated in song used to be…
London Recalling: 10 songs with capital locations in their title
There are fine homages to the pretty hilltop spot in NW3 by Madness and John and Beverley Martyn, but the former Mr Kate McGarrigle edges it
Charles Bradley: Changes
You don’t need to have seen X Factor or The Voice more than once to have heard a judge unconvincingly assure a fretful contestant after a…
The name-droppers: 10 songs that put the list into playlist
This strange 1991 single by the Irish indie band A House starts with the ‘singer’ recalling a quote: ‘All art is quite useless according to…
Meet The Parentheses: 10 songs with brackets in the title
History tells us the Faces were falling apart by 1974, brought low by Ronnie Lane’s departure. Tellingly, for this final single they were…
The Skids: TV Stars and the magic of the list song
February 1979. Britain was gripped by an unprecedented crisis. Bin men, gravediggers and lorry drivers were on strike, unemployment was…
Dan Penn: The Dark End Of The Street
Dan Penn once said he was always striving to write the best cheating song ever. There is stiff competition – Your Cheatin’ Heart and I Heard
Procol Harum: A Salty Dog
We’ll skip the light fandango and cut to the chase. In my opinion Procol Harum’s magnum opus is not A Whiter Shade of Pale, which announced…
Ronnie Lane: Debris
Ronnie Lane had three distinct career phases: bass-playing mod turned psychedelic imp in the Small Faces, wine-swigging heartbeat of the…
The Left Banke: Walk Away Renée
More than half a century has passed since Walk Away Renée first entranced radio listeners and record buyers. Fifty-one years – and yet, as…
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