The Blackpool Gazette asked its readers to name the best songs released by artists from Blackpool and nearly 200 people commented with their suggestions!
Below we have collected those of which we were able to find a picture for, but we appreciate there are many other local favourites out there!
Cher still regrets not asking for a writing credit on her 1998 mega hit single 'Believe'.
Pop-rock band Keane reveal they sent the director a song that he ultimately turned down for the soundtrack, just before they achieved a No 1 debut album
The mother and daughter have posed exclusively for HELLO! and opened up about the future
The secret London station location will be revealed to ticket holders later this week
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder, filmed while the singer was on tour in 2022, explores his 20-year career in the music industry.
Olivia Rodrigo "felt so much pressure" while working on her second album as she wanted to "please everyone with the music I was making".
Take That love to interact with their fans via social media and find out what they think about their concerts and music.
‘It was a big thrill for me,’ US artist tells Iggy Pop in a rare radio appearance
"The band deserves to live on because the band is bigger than we are," said KISS singer and guitarist Paul Stanley.
Nicki Minaj pulled out of a performance at the Jingle Ball in Chicago at the last minute to give her time to finish work on her new album
A towering, high-tech version of Kiss took over from the band at Madison Square Garden, created by the team behind Abba Voyage
On Saturday night, Kiss closed out the final performance of their “The End of the Road” farewell tour at New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden. During their encore, the band’s current lineup — founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons as well as guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer — left the stage to reveal digital avatars of themselves. The cutting-edge technology was used to tease a new chapter of the rock band: after 50 years of Kiss, the band is now interested in a kind of digital immortality.
Thanks to streaming, Brexit and Covid, it’s never been harder to make ends meet as a musician. Three acts with second jobs discuss juggling stadium tours with shelf-stacking
Voted on by over 30 Guardian music writers, we celebrate the year’s best tracks from Boygenius to Blur and beyond
‘Terry Hall was writing about nuclear war and Ronald Reagan, then the US president, the idea being that the world was being run by lunatics’
The year belongs to regional Mexican artists, who brought their banda, norteño, mariachi, sierreño and more to geographies well beyond Mexico and the southwest U.S. As Carín León told The Associated Press earlier this year, it is no longer “regional,” but “global” music. Leading the charge is Peso Pluma, whose third studio album, “Génesis,” became the highest-charting regional Mexican album of all time. In the two years since her tear-jerking ballad “drivers license” came in like a wrecking ball, Olivia Rodrigo experienced a lot of life in a short period of time, resulting in “GUTS,” her sophomore album.
‘TOO many protest singers/Not enough protest songs.” So sang Scots former Orange Juice frontperson, Edwyn Collins, on his 1994 hit single, A Girl Like You.
Are you a fan of All I Want For Christmas is You, or more of a Fairytale of New York kind of person?
And somewhere, Elaine's boyfriend Brett is out riding fences.
The band had a string of US and Canadian hits in the 1970s and 80s, including power ballad Just Between You and Me
