Song Stories

Fly Me to the Moon

Story behind the song (in other words)

Fame

Bowie & Lennon — Englishmen in New York

Down by the Salley Gardens

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

Flash, Bang, Wallop!

What a picture! What a photograph!

Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

That certain night The night we met There was magic abroad in the…

Old Tige by Jim Reeves

Spooky ballad based on real events

Baby It’s You

Bacharach & (Mack) David

The first two Beatles albums included around 40% of songs covered from other…

Alfie

Burt, Cilla & Dionne

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

Auld Lang Syne

A Robbie Burns song? Not quite that simple