Released on Nov. 11, 1977, as a double A-side with “Girls’ School,” the song quickly raced up the charts. It held the No. 1 ...

Many songs about Britain’s emotive, lyrical landscapes have captured the world’s imagination. Ferry Cross the Mersey by Gerry and the Pacemakers. Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks. Fog on the Tyne by ...

IT would have been interesting to hear Belinda Carlisle, on her midweek visit to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, sing Reflections of my Life, the 1969 hit by Scottish band Marmalade that is featured ...

In the 1970s, Paul and his family moved from London to his Scottish farm, High Park Farm, in Kintyre. In his book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul explained that he thinks many English people, ...

" 'John Anderson My Jo' is a song for silver-haired lovers." Thus Janne Irvine introduced a song of love and loss to be sung by the women of the Tucson Seven Pipers Scottish Society Singers. Indeed, ...

THE ‘Rip It Up’ exhibition that ran at Edinburgh's National Museum of Scotland across the second half of 2018 was a joy to behold, a ...

LYRICAL poetry is poetry in its intensest and purest essence. Other forms of poetry may be greater, more intellectual.— may combine elements more numerous and diverse, and demand more varied powers ...

Millions across the world sing it as the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, linking arms with friends and strangers alike to mark the end of one year and the beginning of another. But what does ...