Our weekly round-up of what’s on in Preston, starting Monday 16 March, includes an array of music, networking and community ...
Straight Up made Paula Abdul a star in 1988, topping the Billboard Hot 100, selling over 1 million copies, and becoming a defining pop hit.
Gross’s column Cultural Reset features regular deep dives into the impact of music on culture—and vice versa—in the 21st century from the perspective of someone born and raised within it. When I was ...
Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys didn’t just top the charts but it reshaped what pop music production could sound like in ...
The legend of Dominic Fike goes something like this: In 2018, the emerging singer, 22 at the time, was at the center of an intense bidding war among record labels clamoring to sign him. Columbia ...
Reflecting on the day she wrote the song, Parton shared that she made a deal with Wagoner after singing the song to him ahead of her show exit. Lyrically, “I Will Always Love You” delivers a ...
Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, known for hits like “Bad Blood” and “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” died on Feb. 27 at age 86.
Fremantle’s is scaling “Hitster,” scoring its first format sales on new music TV game show of the same title, based on the party game which has burst onto the scene, proving a top seller in Northern ...
Madonna’s 1989 chart-topping hit ignited controversy that led to a stunning $5 million fallout and a decision that shocked the music world. Madonna’s "Like a Prayer" sparked outrage, causing Pepsi to ...
The BRIT Awards take place on Saturday, 28 February at Co-op Live in Manchester - the first time in the music ceremony's five-decade history ...
Just twice: That’s how many times Super Bowl halftime performers have sent a song to No. 1 the week after their televised extravaganza. Last February, Kendrick Lamar sent “Not Like Us,” his incendiary ...
One of the most iconic rock stars of the 1970s spent almost that entire decade battling in court off and on over his biggest solo hit song ever. On November 28, 1970, George Harrison's "My Sweet ...