When families across the United Kingdom sit down to their Christmas feasts tomorrow, more than likely they will do so accompanied by traditional festive anthems by artists such as Slade, Wizzard, the Pogues, Darkness, Mud, Boney M, Paul McCartney and Chris Rea, but the song that’s at the top of the charts for the season…
It’s 14 years ago today that the original creative force behind legendary British progressive rock band Pink Floyd passed away, his life cut short by an excessive lifestyle that saw only glimpses of his immense talent appear to the world. Syd Barrett, who joined the world on 6 January 1946, provided 10 of the 11…
On its first release in January 1955 it spent five weeks on top of the British charts, on it’s second in April 1968 it reached number 20 and on a third release in March 1974 it got as high as number 12. In all it spent 57 weeks in the British charts and was the…
