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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Across 2026, the music world will quietly but meaningfully mark the 50th anniversary of a year that changed popular music in lasting ways. 1976 was not universally loved at the time, but its influence is impossible to ignore. It was a year of extremes. Glossy pop dominance sat alongside the early sparks of punk rebellion.
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Nearly three years after the death of Fleetwood Mac legend Christine McVie, one of the most personal chapters of her life quietly came to a close when her treasured London penthouse sold in October 2025 for £6.95 million (US$9.26 million). The sale attracted multiple bidders before a young European couple secured the property by offering
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On this day in history – 16 September 2011 – Liam Gallagher was stepping onto a Middle East stage for the first time, fronting Beady Eye – not Oasis. Tickets had gone quickly, fans had travelled from across Abu Dhabi, Dubai and beyond, and by the time the band hit the stage the venue was close to
In 1973, before Fleetwood Mac would redefine the sound of a generation, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were still aspirations wrapped in chiffon. Their debut, Buckingham Nicks, was modest in ambition, but the album’s contrast between innocence and exposure would land not in record shops, but in rock photographs. Stevie spent her last $111 (about $786 in
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