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The Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) [4] evolved from the Mathew Street Music Festival, which was the largest annual free music festival in Liverpool attracting over 200,000 visitors to the city. In 2011 the GIT Award [5] - formed through influential Liverpool music blog Getintothis - was founded. Dubbed the 'Scouse Mercury Prize ...
Coined as ABBA's "biggest and most well-known hit," the song skyrocketed to number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 — making it their only song to top the chart. "Dancing Queen" debuted at the ...
Singles are a type of music release that typically have fewer tracks than an extended play or an album. Throughout the 1970s the UK Singles Chart was compiled by the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) [1] from the sales data of a representative panel of record shops across the country, starting with about 250 shops at the beginning of the decade and increasing to around 450 stores by 1979.
Founded in early 1974, by Liverpool tenor-saxophonist, Albie Donnelly (born Albert Edward Donnelly, 12 August 1947, Huyton, Liverpool), and drummer Dave Irving (born David Geddes Irving, 18 November 1946, Crosby, Liverpool) after they had both left the 'In Crowd' cabaret band, Supercharge soon built up quite a cult following in Liverpool at 'The Sportsman', a popular city-centre pub on Sunday ...
J.A.L.N. Band – "Disco Music" Elton John – "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" Jimmy James and the Vagabonds – "I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me", "Now Is The Time" The Kursaal Flyers – "Little Does She Know" Laurie Lingo and the Dipsticks – "Convoy GB" Liverpool Express – "You Are My Love", "Every Man Must Have a Dream"
The 1970s was an era that produced some of the greatest live albums in history. In the previous decade, artists and producers took great pains to make studio albums sound as spotless and pristine ...
Paul McCartney with wife and Wings band member Linda.McCartney wrote the Wings song "Mull of Kintyre", which was the best-selling record of the decade.Queen, who spent nine weeks at number one with "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1975 John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, who had two number-one singles in 1978 and occupied the top spot for over a quarter of the year.
The UK singles chart was first compiled in 1969. However, the records and statistics listed here date back to 1952 because the Official Charts Company counts a selected period of the New Musical Express chart (only from 1952 to 1960) and the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969 as predecessors for the period prior to 11 February 1969, where multiples of competing charts coexisted side by side.