1. Elvis Presley
In November 1960, Elvis the Pelvis crooned and swivelled his way to the very top of the UK charts with his ballad, ‘It’s Now or Never’.
It stayed at the number one spot for 8 weeks (more than any other artist in that year), and spent a total of 19 weeks in the charts, [...]
Tag Archives: The Beatles
Top Bands & Singers of the 60s…
7 November, 2008 – 12:00 pm
All Change on the Music Scene
22 September, 2008 – 9:00 am
When The Beatles first arrived, they were seen as a straight forward pop group, but the difference was that they wrote their own songs. The 1963 transition in the music scene was definitely that more songwriters performed their own songs, rather than stars being ‘manufactured’ by songwriters and music publishers; the writers churned the songs [...]