Who ‘didn’t notice that the lights had changed’?

Lydia the Tattooed Lady

Story of Groucho’s signature tune

Begin the Beguine

song that has always divided critical opinion

I Wanna be Your Man

How Lennon & McCartney gave the Stones their first Top 20 single

An Affair to Remember

Our love affair with the film and the song

Down by the Salley Gardens

Yeats hears ‘three lines imperfectly remembered by an old peasant woman’

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Classic jump blues built from unfashionable parts

Old Tige by Jim Reeves

Spooky ballad based on real events

42nd Street

Where the underworld can meet the elite

Alfie

Burt, Cilla & Dionne

Cilla Black was the cloakroom attendant in The Cavern and an aspirant singer. Following Napoleon’s…