It's time - as we do every Thursday at midday - to bring you another pop classic that never was and give it the time to shine it deserves with Pop Essays. This week: our first single release of this series that (unjustly) failed to chart... Artist: Andrea Corr Song: Champagne From A Straw Release … Continue reading Pop Essays #15: Andrea Corr, ‘Champagne From A Straw’
Hello, it's Thursday, and midday, and thus time to bring you our look back at more huge UK chart smashes from 20 years ago with this week's installment of The Story of Pop: 2000. And our trinity of Irish entries continues, with the first and only chart topper from the Emerald Isle's most successful family … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 28)
Happy Tuesday people! Time once again for our weekly retrospective of the UK hit singles from five points in the last twenty five years with #ThrowbackTunesday. Before we get to this week's featured classic hit, let's see what others are joining on it the playlist... 1993: SWV - 'Right Here' 1998: The Corrs - 'What … Continue reading #ThrowbackTunesday: Episode 31
It's Tuesday people! Hope you had a good bank holiday weekend viewers. It's time once again for #ThrowbackTunesday. Before we get to today's featured song, let's see what five UK chart hits from this exact week in the last 25 years are on the playlist... 1993: Spin Doctors - Two Princes 1998: The Corrs - … Continue reading #ThrowbackTunesday: Episode 16
Just as, at one time, Leigh Francis in a rubber mask on 'Bo Selecta!' ruined Craig David for a large number of people, so too, did Ant & Dec and Cat Deeley, wearing black wigs and affecting Irish accents and proclaiming that they were 'beeeautiful' on Saturday morning kid's TV, ruin one of the Emerald … Continue reading #CrazyStupidAlbum: The Corrs – ‘Jupiter Calling’
Perhaps one of the more welcome news of a pop comeback for me in recent times is for that of Dundalk family band The Corrs. If, like me, at the end of the late 90s and early 00s, you were growing up in a part Celtic family there's a chance your household owned a copy, … Continue reading #CrazyStupidPlaylist: The Corrs
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