The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The book takes 45 chart toppers and writes their story. The music, the lyrics, the artists, producers and writers are all discussed, as well as any side or back stories to do with the single. For example, when and how “Release Me” by Engelbert Humperdinck kept “Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields” by The Beatles off the top spot in 1967, is discussed in Chapter 4. Another example of a “you could not make it up” back story might be the that the writer of “Grandad”, by Clive Dunn from 1971and a light nov