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Christmas Singles

Posted on12. Dec, 2009 by Mike.

I don’t know about you but I think Christmas is not a great time for music, all new releases tend to be artists best of/greatest hits albums the X-Factor winners inevitable No 1 single and the dreaded Christmas single.

When I was growing up in the seventies there was a boom in fun Christmas singles; Slade, Mud, Wizzard and the Wombles and these seem to be re-released every year always making the charts [...]

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“Got your mother in a whirl, not sure if you’re a boy or a girl” Gender Bender pop stars Part 2

Posted on20. Nov, 2009 by Mike.

The first gender-bender pop star to receive mainstream acceptance was Boy George in the early 80´s with his band Culture Club. Their first appearance on TV singing “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” produced cries of “is it a man or a woman?” and it turned George into a celebrity overnight.

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The history of music videos

Posted on22. Oct, 2009 by Mike.

The music Video has been around since the swinging sixties and was initially called the “promo film” and was used to promote bands who could not be in every country when they had a single released. The Beatles were one of the first bands (and best known) to use video for tracks like “Help” and [...]

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