Damn it - I missed that conference. If I'd known about it before, I'd have been there like a shot.  Cryptozoology is the study of an...

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about the power of boredom, here are some song titles in similar vein. As we've got Barbra Streis...

Je t'aime, je t'aime Oh oui, je t'aime I can't have been the only person to hear those words echoing in my ears the moment I...

Back in my 20s, when I had an abundance of free time and the world still made a vague sort of sense, I read (on average) a book a week. As w...

I was too young to watch The Sweeney when it first aired in the mid 70s. All that violence, bad language and people being told to get their ...

There are certain celebrities who are arguably more famous for the song they appear in than for their own career. I'm not sure Bette Dav...

I find it hard to believe that hundreds of songs have not been written about Olivia Newton-John. Anyone who was a teenager in the late 70s a...

There really was only one Adam who could illustrate the Top Ten Adam Songs that you have helped me compile over the last week. Jim in Dub...

And so we reach the end of double digits on the Hot 100 Countdown, with lost 80s postpunk pioneers (they might not have been pioneers, I ...

I have to admit that when Jim in Dubai suggested a band called Seventeen to illustrate this week's edition of the Hot 100, I did wond...