Oddball's Coming Home: 10 leftfield songs about sport
A 1968 single by Townshend, Daltrey, Entwhistle and Moon, and a relative flop which peaked at No25, Dogs is about greyhound racing, beer…
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Thanks for stumbling upon my retirement project and labour of love, Here Comes The Song. Here you'll find the latest blogs from music fanatics about their favourite songs and the artists who wrote them. It really is about the music that moves us...
Songs Of The Week 2019: Take 2
We all need a harmonious new year after the dissonance of 2019, and who better to provide a message of hope and empathy than The Secret Sis…
Dolly, the Cameroon connection and the power of storytelling
Cameroon’s Bamenda Highlands is a vibrant, verdant region awash with life. Rust-red tracks cut through mountainous forests that brim with…
Songs Of The Week 2019: Take 1
The Boss takes a quiet slip road off E Street, transporting me back to Friday night treats in the late 50s-early 60s watching cowboy films…
Songs and gongs of 2018
Our final Song Of The Week of 2018 is an encore from Anderson East's album of that name, the southern soul ballad This Too Shall Last…
Six of the best from our 2017 Songs Of The Week playlist
We at Here Comes The Song have bombarded contributors, subscribers, readers and listeners with our Songs Of The Week by Twitter, Facebook…
'Tis the season to be different: an alternative festive playlist
Presenting an alternative festive playlist… to show there's more to Christmas music than Noddy Holder, Roy Wood, Shakin’ Stevens and that…
Flipside of The Beatles: From The Liverbirds to Rory Storm
The so-called Swinging Sixties weren’t just about The Beatles. No, no, no. Here are some of the finest – and perhaps less obvious – among…
Indelible mark of Zevon: 10 more from the songwriter's songwriter
Surreal, darkly comic tale of revenge from the 1978 album Excitable Boy and the last song Warren Zevon played live, on The Late Show with…
They say it's your birthday: 10 songs for a best wishes list
From their debut album Life’s Too Good. The Icelandic band fronted by Bjork are classed as alternative/indie; it's certainly alternative but
London Recalling: 10 songs with capital locations in their title
There are fine homages to the pretty hilltop spot in NW3 by Madness and John and Beverley Martyn, but the former Mr Kate McGarrigle edges it
The name-droppers: 10 songs that put the list into playlist
This strange 1991 single by the Irish indie band A House starts with the ‘singer’ recalling a quote: ‘All art is quite useless according to…
Meet The Parentheses: 10 songs with brackets in the title
History tells us the Faces were falling apart by 1974, brought low by Ronnie Lane’s departure. Tellingly, for this final single they were…
Welcome Mr Trump: A Playlist For The New President
‘There are those who build walls,’ sings Browne on Standing On The Breach, ‘and those who open doors.’ Don’t know which person or what part…
Wish They Were Still Here: Cherished Songs Of The Departed
One of the all-time great storytellers, the Texan elder statesman paints extraordinary pictures about ordinary people and situations. This…
Got It Covered: My 10 Favourite Renditions
One of the greatest pop songs of all time by one of the greatest singers covering yet another all-time great in Otis Redding. It couldn’t…
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