Song inspiration the sole survivor
The plane crash that killed three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd was presaged by a song released only days before.
The plane crash that killed three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd was presaged by a song released only days before.
Rock Around The Clock may have remained undiscovered if not for one nine-year-old boy.
Its melody and sorrowful words will keep Danny Boy alive as long as people have ears. So will the debate over its lyrics.
It Ain’t Necessarily So was written for a stage show based partly on the life of a disabled beggar.
Bing Crosby’s Do You Hear What I Hear was a classic of the Cold War.
The sound of the Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction began with a faulty amplifier being used to record a Marty Robbins track.
The Easybeats singer Stevie Wright was a legend of the Australian rock scene.
The story of The Real Thing by Russell Morris is almost unreal.
Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday (written by Lewis Allan) reached No. 16 on the charts on July 22nd, 1939.
Scrappy farmland on Melbourne’s outskirts seen as the birthplace of a truly Australian brand of rock is to be sold.
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