A. Essentially, Europop is the name given to a group of singles made by European pop stars, which invade the UK charts in the late summer or early autumn, usually reaching the top three, and then
00:00 Mon 30th Jul 2001A. In a world where the cult of 'celebrity' has taken over, Madonna harks back to a bygone age, when being a 'star' actually meant something. For example, someone like PJ Proby would only ever be a
00:00 Mon 30th Jul 2001A. The term 'producer' when applied to the credits you read on the back of your favourite CD or album can mean a variety of things - there really is no fixed job description for a producer. Q. OK,
00:00 Mon 23rd Jul 2001A. The Ring Cycle is acknowledged as one of the greatest single operatic works ever created, and has assured its composer Richard Wagner his high place in classical music immortality. Q. What is
00:00 Mon 23rd Jul 2001A. Like most musical genres, reggae did not evolve from an individual source, but from a mixture of musical, religious, and cultural influences rooted in America. Q. How does American music figure
00:00 Mon 23rd Jul 2001A. Among the great names of classical opera, the name of Giuseppe Verdi must hold a high place. Verdi is a composer credited with the evolution of opera from its previous format, to that used from
00:00 Tue 17th Jul 2001A. In a word - no, because there is no such thing as a 'typical' David Bowie album! Q. OK, well, I've picked up on the Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars album, so where
00:00 Tue 17th Jul 2001 In a word ' no, because there is no such thing as a 'typical' David Bowie album! OK, well, I've picked up on the Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars album, so where should I
00:00 Mon 16th Jul 2001 About thirty million people like this album enough to have bought it, putting it into the Top Three Best Selling Albums Of All Time. What's so great about it In a word - style. The whole
00:00 Mon 16th Jul 2001A. About thirty million people liked this album enough to have bought it, putting it into the Top Three Best Selling Albums Of All Time. Q. What's so great about it A. In a word - style. The
00:00 Mon 16th Jul 2001 A. It is - 3 July 1971 was the day that police found the body of rock star Jim Morrison in the bath at his Paris apartment. No post mortem was carried out, although the cause of death is thought to
00:00 Tue 10th Jul 2001A. Of all the fashions, cults and fads that have populated popular music, the New Romantic era is the hardest to pin down precisely, mainly because it was less of a musical style than a youth
00:00 Tue 10th Jul 2001 A. Of all the fashions, cults and fads that have populated popular music, the New Romantic era is the hardest to pin down, mainly because it was less of a musical style than a youth culture
00:00 Mon 09th Jul 2001A. John Lee Hooker, the veteran bluesman who died on 22 June, was one of the last remaining links with the origins of blues music. Estimates of Hooker's age vary between 80 and 85, but whatever his
00:00 Mon 02nd Jul 2001A. As the first release on Richard Branson's brand new Virgin Records label, this album's success was the start of the multi-million pound music business empire created by Richard Branson. Q. The
00:00 Mon 02nd Jul 2001A. It's a possibility, although not a definite fact, the idea has been put forward by Mike Shalett, founder of a company called SoundScan, a New York data company that compiles US record sales
00:00 Mon 02nd Jul 2001 A. People who study history are of the opinion that in order to see where we are going, we need to see where we've been. That may be true in terms of avoiding military conflict; it doesn't
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