EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert puts Elvis Presley back on cinema screens with restored concert footage from the early 1970s, assembled by director Baz Luhrmann. The 90 minute film opened on IMAX screens on 20 February 2026 via Universal Pictures, with a wider theatrical rollout following. Built largely from previously unseen material discovered during the […]
If you have seen the term “Dinked Edition” on a new record and wondered what it means, you are not alone. Dinked is a network of independent record shops in the UK and Ireland that collaborate on exclusive, limited edition vinyl releases. The initiative launched in 2018 through shops including Drift Records (closed February 2026),
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In 2015, Dutch cognitive neuroscientist Dr Jacob Jolij analysed 126 songs identified as “feel good” by UK and Republic of Ireland respondents and concluded that Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now ranks as the happiest song ever. The research, commissioned by British electronics brand Alba, examined tempo, musical key and lyrical positivity to identify patterns in
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Only Love Can Hurt Like This is one of Paloma Faith’s defining songs, even though she did not write it herself. Released in May 2014 as the second single from A Perfect Contradiction, the song was written by Diane Warren, one of the most successful pop songwriters of the last four decades. The track peaked
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About FLECKS are Freya Monks and Scott Halliday, a Dublin-based synth-pop duo who have been writing and producing music together since 2012. All music is written and produced by Monks and Halliday, with recording and mixing handled by Halliday. Musical Style and Influences FLECKS draw influence from 1980s films, classic synth-pop, and dark, atmospheric film
When Kate Bush released Wuthering Heights in January 1978, it didn’t sound like anything else on the radio. Written by Bush when she was just 18 and inspired by Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel of the same name, the song is delivered from the voice of Catherine Earnshaw’s ghost. That bold choice paid off. The single
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27 January 1984 marked the release of Time After Time, the poignant ballad co-written by Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman. This song would go on to become Lauper’s first number-one hit and one of the defining pop ballads of the 1980s. A quiet moment that became a global hit Taken from Lauper’s debut album She’s
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His Best Solo Albums of All Time Phil Collins’ solo career wasn’t a side project. It reshaped 1980s pop, blurred the line between adult contemporary and MTV-era chart dominance, and produced some of the most commercially successful albums of all time. This ranking balances cultural impact, sales, critical standing, and long-term relevance. 1. No Jacket
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Benjamin Clementine’s London is already a powerful song, but the video gives it a whole other emotional register. Despite the title, it isn’t set in London at all. Director Colin Solal Cardo places Clementine on the rooftops of Paris, the city where he busked, struggled, and slowly found his footing as an artist. The video
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About Jenny on Holiday is the solo project of Jenny Hollingworth, best known as one half of acclaimed UK duo Let’s Eat Grandma. Raised in Norwich, Hollingworth signed to Transgressive Records at 16 with bandmate Rosa Walton and spent the next decade building one of Britain’s most distinctive alternative pop catalogues. Her solo work emerged
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