Just because an artist gets labeled a one-hit wonder, that doesn’t mean their impact on music is so easily forgotten. Many timeless and classic songs have been written and recorded by artists who ...

In the ever-shifting landscape of popular music, some artists capture lightning in a bottle with one undeniable hit, only to recede from the limelight thereafter. These are the “one-hit wonders” that ...

Recently I penned a story about the Dutch classic rock group Shocking Blue, known in the U.S. mainly for the 1969 hit, “Venus.” In the story, I discuss how the band was not just a one-hit wonder, as ...

Toyah and Robert Fripp are back with an all-new episode of Sunday Lunch this week, covering “Venus” which was a #1 hit for Dutch band Shocking Blue in 1970 and then a #1 hit for Bananarama in 1986.

Representatives of the current young generation, having heard the word “shizgara”, are likely to shrug their shoulders in bewilderment. But for older music lovers, it is a symbol of an entire era. In ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Long before ...

Like the true meaning of “Stairway to Heaven,” and the covert clues pointing to the death of Paul, the phenomenon of the “one-hit wonder” has occupied more than its share of my psyche. How is it that ...

The calendar said the 1960s were over, but you wouldn’t have known it from the 11 albums that reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 1970. There, the sounds of the decade in which rock and roll ...

(CBS 11) - Today's song is still as good today as it was when it was first released nearly 50 years ago. Shocking Blue was a rock group from The Hague, Netherlands. Founded in 1967, the group ...

Cover songs are great and all, but sometimes the original is still best. The popularity of certain cover songs is well-documented. Joan Jett’s 1982 “I Love Rock 'n' Roll” isn’t just better than the ...