A songwriter wrote Petula Clark's "Downtown" because he disliked the title of one of Phil Spector's girl group songs.

Most great music inspires rumors and speculation. Some have claimed that Petula Clark’s “Downtown” was offered to a massive 1960s band. Here is what Clark’s songwriter had to say.

Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin helped make tracks for a British Invasion pop goddess. One of them sounds like The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows.” ...

Upstairs at The Gatehouse is at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, 1 North Road, Highgate Village, N6 4BD, London.

This singer of American soul music and great seducer before the Eternal was born in Detroit (Michigan) in 1940. Like many ...

The Righteous Brothers’ blue-eyed soul classic “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” topped the ‘Billboard’ Hot 100 sixty years ago.

Consider that just a few years before, in 1968, Petula Clark touches Harry Belafonte's ... after shows like "The Jeffersons" became hits. Jenny (Berlinda Tolbert) and Lionel (Mike Evans) in ...

for Song and Dance and Best Musical (Tony Awards) for Cats. What awards has Cameron Mackintosh won? Cameron Mackintosh has won multiple prestigious awards, including Best Revival of a Musical at ...

The exhibition is the first properly to consider Goldin as a filmmaker. When The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1979-86) came ...

"Are you gonna hit me?" Clark said before Phillips tried to changed her mind. "Oh, your shot looks so good!" Caitlin Clark then noticed Phillips was shooting from the same spot despite multiple ...

American fans have been returning to the group’s classics in large enough numbers to turn some of them into hits, which has happened again this week. “Nutshell” by Alice in Chains debuts on ...