The most detailed guide to every single and artist that has ever appeared in the UK Chart / Full listings of every single and artist ever appearing in the UK Singles Chart -- with details of every Silver, Gold or Platinum disc and all Prizes / Every artist has a biography -- not just the Top 500 as in the Guiness / Illustrated in colour throughout / 100 Top 10s (Bestsellers, SIngles making Nos 1 in US & UK, Most Nos 1s, Artists making Nos 1 with first single etc etc) with even more information on the artists and singles
Graham Betts has written for numerous magazines and publications over the last twenty-five years, including Blues & Soul, Record Buyer, and The History of Rock.A contributor to numerous books on music and football, he has also had ten published under his own name. He is currently A & R Manager for the Pickwick Group.
This is the ultimate guide for every music lover who has ever wondered who has the best selling single ever, or who has been Nos 1 more times than anyone else, or where Tears for Fears (or even 10cc) got there name, or who is left from T. Rex. Covering every single that has ever charted in the UK, with details on when released, top position, weeks in chart, awards, silver, gold or platimnum, track title, label and catalogue number, this book also uniquely has short histories of EVERY band that has ever appeared in the charts, plus facts on where, when, why or by whom the track was written, or recorded or whatever is interesting about it. Organised A-Z by artist, with a full index of song titles.
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