1807: Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire. On the same day, the first fare-paying, passenger railway service in the world is established on the Oystermouth Railway in ...

Among the highlights of this week’s We Are Busy Bodies 20th-anniversary concert series is a live tribute to Norman McLaren, ...

The band first shot to fame in 1975 following the release of their first studio album, High Voltage. By 1979, when disaster struck, AC/DC was experiencing global success with the release of Highway to ...

While it's a decidedly difficult task to compile a list of Queen's greatest hits, we've got the next best thing: a list of Freddie Mercury's favourite songs.

Françoise Hardy surprised her family—twice. First, she passed her baccalauréat exam with flying colors, a shock, really. Then ...

Cliff Richard can make that claim, because members of The Fab Four have admitted it in interviews. Such was the impact of The Shadows, for whom Richard was the lead singer. Over and over again ...

The Official UK Singles Chart reflects the UK’s biggest songs of the week, based on audio and video streams, downloads, CDs and vinyl, compiled by the Official Charts Company. The UK Top 40 is ...

Across genres and styles, we’ll be keeping tabs on must-hear albums as the year continues on. The music industry will continue to shift, and we’re ready to roll with wherever it goes next.

On 3rd March 2008, the anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba released their thirteenth album, commonly known as The Boy Bands Have Won. In actual fact, the full title is an eye-popping 156 words long - a ...

"There was a Little Richard album I bought once because I loved him so much - it was Little Richard and Buck Ram with an orchestra. I thought, ‘Yeah, great. That should be good!’ "I got it ...

People are now calling him the Cliff Richard of hip hop. 'His new album was expected to provide the perfect launch pad for Universal's new Def Jam label, but its poor performance is now being ...

“Poker Face” has added a handful of more guest stars for its upcoming second season: David Alan Grier, Lauren Tom, Lili Taylor, Natasha Leggero and Richard Kind ... Carol Kane, Cliff “Method Man” ...