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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...

You can't change what happened, but you can change our understanding of that period.

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...

A new photo of the King and Queen, taken at the British ambassador Lord Llewellyn's residence in Rome to mark their 20th wedding anniversary, which is on Wednesday during their Italian State Visit.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have started their State Visit to Italy. The British Head of State and Consort were given the red carpet treatment by the Italians as they disembarked Vespina - Britain's equivalent of America's Air Force One - at the airport in Rome ("Vespina" takes her name...

Electric Six - "Danger! High Voltage" (2002) Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, the band are known for having British musical influence within their songs and for performing in British accents. Many people probably think they're British. The Anglophile band has also performed with a plethora of...

Ultravox - "Vienna" (1981) The English/Scottish band reached No2 in the UK with this. The song originally had slightly different lyrics. Vocalist Midge Ure didn't like the song originally and in the recording studio he proclaimed "This means nothing to me!", at which point the German producer...

Ed Sheeran - "Azizam" (2025) Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, but raised down in Suffolk, Ed Sheeran has already sold over 200 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best selling artists in history, which is all the more incredible considering he's only 34. The video for...

Sleep Token - "Caramel" (2025) The new single from the London alt-metallers

Erasure - "Drama!" (1989) The London electropoppers reached No4 in the UK and No10 in the US with this at the end of probably the best decade for pop music, although being born in 1981 I barely remember it. The men shouting "GUILTY!" in the background are the Scottish rockers The Jesus and...

A new portrait of the King wearing a kilt was released in January to mark Burns Night His Majesty King Charles III is back to full engagements after a short stay in hospital following side effects from his cancer treatment

Evanescence - "Afterlife" (2025) The Little Rock, Arkansas, rockers - fronted by 43-year-old Amy Lee - are back with their new single. From the new Netflix series "Devil May Cry", based on the hit video game franchise.

The Rasmus - "Creatures of Chaos" (2025) Hailing from the Finnish capital of Helsinki, this is the new single from the rockers

New Order - "Regret" (1993) New Order have an unusual and tragic history as one band transforming into another band. In 1980, Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis hanged himself in his kitchen. A combination of severe epilepsy (which he would sometimes suffer on stage due to the strobe lighting)...

R.E.M. - "Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)" 1982 An early song from four young Athens, Georgia, rockers who were hoping to one day make it into the big time. And they did just that - selling over 90 million albums worldwide.

Heaven 17 - "Temptation" (1983) The Sheffield new wave band had a No2 UK hit with this one...