"Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl is the best Christmas tune of all time and also UK's most-played Christmas song of the 21st century.
Today, 14 years ago, Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish became the first gay celebrities to register their relationship as a civil partnership.
The Cramps performing "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" on French TV back in 1990, featuring Lux Interior wearing men's thong and stilettos.
Today, 18 years ago, Stuart Adamson was found dead in Hawaii a month after disappearing from his home. The lead singer of Big Country's body was found in a closet in his room at the Best Western Plaza Hotel in Honolulu.
42 years ago today, riots broke outside of Her Majesty's Theatre in Brisbane at a Blondie concert
Charlotte Gainsbourg's IRM was released 10 years ago this week. Beck was the producer.
43 years ago today, employees at EMI refused to handle the Sex Pistols single "Anarchy in the U.K".
34 years ago today, The Jesus and Mary Chain released 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘺.
Run turned 55 today. Better known by the stage name Run, Rev. Run or DJ Run, is one of the founding members of the influential hip hop group RunâD.M.C. He is also a practicing minister, known as Reverend Run.â£
Today, 52 years ago, Rolling Stone made their debut. The price was 25 cents and it had a free roach clip to hold a marijuana joint. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards weren't too happy that there was a newspaper using their name and not even put them on the cover of the first issue.
A few photoshoot outtakes from Fleetwood Mac's most successful release, one of the best-selling albums of all time: Rumours.
âI met Serge through taking a role in a French film called Slogan. To begin with, he didnât like me because my French wasnât very good and heâd been hoping that Marisa Berenson would get my role. Everybody told me he was a mad, bad, dangerous Russian, but after a dinner together I discovered he was very charming."
On this day, 54 years ago, The Who released the single "My Generation" in the UK.
The song has been said to have "encapsulated the angst of being a teenager," and has been characterised as a "nod to the Mod counterculture".
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Music journalist, writer, radio DJ, socio-political activist, creative industry leader, and a qualified librarian, Rudolf Dethu is heavily under the influence of the punk rock philosophy.
