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Spandau Ballet - "Lifeline" (1982) The London New Wave band reached No7 in the UK with this. Bassist Martin Kemp - brother of guitarist Gary - went on to become an actor and played Steve Owen in BBC soap opera EastEnders for many years. He is married to Shirlie Kemp who was a member of Wham...

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Depeche Mode - "People Are People" (1984) 39 years after World War II, the mighty Essex synthesiser geniuses who have sold over 100 million albums globally reached No4 in the UK with this anti-war song

Lana Del Rey: "Henry, Come On" (2025) The new single from the 39-year old New York City songstress

Sash! ft Rodriguez - "Ecuador" (1998) The two Germans - Rodriguez being adept at singing in Spanish - teamed up to have a global hit with this in the year France won its first World Cup by beating Brazil 3-0; Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family are buried in St Petersburg 80 years after...

British YouTuber Sargon of Akkad: Women today have a childish attitude at work - yet are more likely to get jobs than men due to anti-male discrimination. Remember all the singing and dancing nurses back in 2020? We are favouring the less productive members of society (women) over the more...

The Bluebells - "Young at Heart" (1984) The Scottish band has a No8 UK hit with this in the year that Brunei gained its independence from Britain; Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso; Indira Gandhi is assassinated; a Russian cosmonaut is the first woman to do a spacewalk; and a transit...

The King and Queen today arrived at church to hear music written for their 20th wedding anniversary. The then Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9th April 2005. Camilla, of course, is Charles's second wife after Princess Diana. Camilla was quite unpopular with the British public...

Premier League Newcastle United 4-1 Manchester United Fresh from winning their first major trophy since 1969, and still on a high, Newcastle United today beat the once-mighty Manchester United in the Premier League to go fourth. Incredibly, Manchester United - record Premier League winners...

The Divine Comedy: "Achilles" (2025) Formed in 1989 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, The Divine Comedy are a Britpop/Baroque pop band fronted by Neil Hannon. Their brand new single "Achilles", which sounds more like it's from 1965 than 2025, is taken from their 13th studio...

Ghost - "Lachryma" (2025) The new single from the Swedish heavy-metallers - fronted by 44-year-old Tobias Forge - from their upcoming new studio album "Skeletá". From the band, as posted in the comments in the YouTube video... [MESSAGE FROM THE CLERGY] We wish to inform you Ghost's new...

Skunk Anansie - "Lost and Found" (2025) Formed in 1994, the London Britrockers (not to be confused with Britpoppers) - still with their original lineup of Skin, Ace, Cass and Mark - are back with a new single, the video of which was filmed in Munich. Their seventh studio album - "The Painful...

Linkin Park - "Up From The Bottom" (2025) The new single from the Californian nu-metallers

Pulp - "Spike Island" (2025) Formed in 1978, the Sheffield Britpop band fronted by Jarvis Cocker are famous for their 1995 hits "Common People" and "Sorted for E's and Whizz" at the height of the Britpop Era, along with other Britpop bands like Blur and Oasis. Now, despite the fact they are...

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King Charles III and Queen Camilla paid their respects by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Altare della Patria, Rome’s large national monument to Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy. The royals enjoyed renditions of the British and Italian national...

King Charles III is given warm welcome by Italian President Sergio Mattarella in Rome The King and Queen received a ceremonial welcome full of pomp and pageantry hosted by the president of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, as their state visit began in earnest. Charles and Camilla stood as they...

OMC - "How Bizarre" (1995) Hailing from New Zealand's largest city Auckland, OMC had a No1 in Australia, Austria, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the US - and a No5 in the UK - with this in 1995. OMC stands for "Otara Millionaires Club", a tongue in cheek reference to the fact that Otara is...

Savage Garden - "To the Moon and Back" (1997) The Brisbane, Queensland, pop duo - vocalist Darren Hayes and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Jones - had a No1 in their native Australia, a No3 in Britain and No4 in New Zealand with this. Hayes now lives in California with his British husband after...

Italy hopes that the State Visit of the King and Queen of a "soft power superpower" will strengthen her commercial relationship with Britain, particularly when it comes to olive oil. Britain - the world's sixth-largest economy and the second-largest in Europe after Germany - is the world's...