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Click here to listen to a 1966 presentation by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel in the French city of Provins. Christine and I were livi...

The Texan singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt [1944-1997] gave the world a fabulous song, If I needed you , which used to be sung by Joan Ba...

In less than a week, Australia has been invited to perform actively and directly in the Eurovision Song Contest … though not strictly as a c...

The Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel [1929-1978] composed the celebrated song Ne me quitte pas [ Don’t leave me ] in 1959. Clic...

There’s no particular reason why I might be nostalgic concerning the Beatles , apart from the trivial fact that their phenomenon erupted at ...

Lovely mysterious Amy Winehouse , you told us you were trouble. But how come you couldn't get past 27 years?

Maybe, in proposing Amaury Vassili —a smart young good-looking candidate with a marvelous tenor voice—France is playing with fire. If ever w...

The ballad entitled And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda was written in 1971 by Eric Bogle , a Scotsman who had emigrated to Australia in 1...

Here's the original version of Fuck You from the US singer whose stage name is Cee Lo Green : Click the following image of a 22-year-ol...

For old-timers like me, this remains a memorable song: Melanie shouldn't complain about what YouTube has done to her song. If the peopl...

Old-timers of my generation still have a slight moral problem adjusting to Germany. If my parents had told me an unbelievable bedtime story ...