Released in March of 1974, Lightfoot’s tune climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 on June 29 of the same year. The song stayed at No. 1 for just a week but still remains one of Lightfoot ...

The year 1975 was a very good one for Elton John and Chicago. It was pretty good as well for artists from Olivia Newton-John ...

An anti-Sir Keir Starmer song could become a Top 10 hit later this week as it continues to climb the singles charts. Freezing This Christmas, a parody of the 1974 Mud hit Lonely This Christmas ...

The set features 18 songs, including ... follows Lee’s prior top 10s: Brenda, (No. 7 peak, 1973); The Brenda Lee Story (No. 6, 1973); New Sunrise (No. 3, 1974); …The Winning Hand, with Kris ...

Freezing This Christmas, by the parody act Sir Starmer and The Granny Harmers, uses the melody of Mud’s 1974 hit ... cutting the song from its countdown of the Christmas Top 40.

The track, which spent five weeks at No. 1, became the second song to top the weekly Hot 100, after Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool.” Also in the 1958 year-end issue, Billboard continued ...

Young Americans, the album that broke Bowie in the US, turns 50 as Richard Purden explores its soul-tinged legacy with the ...

Along with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple were the third in the holy trinity of bands who laid down the ...

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The Towering Inferno, poster, US advance poster art, top from left: Steve McQueen ... Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, 1974. (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images) 2) Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were ...

In 1974, they were the most popular band in the country - had their first big hit, "Rambling Man." (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "RAMBLING MAN") ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND: (Singing) Lord I was born... PAUL: Phil ...

5 Wiganers are sometimes referred to as “pie-eaters”. The name is said to date from the 1926 General Strike, when Wigan miners were starved back to work before their counterparts in surrounding towns ...