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Smashed Hits: Stories about Songs | BBC News

An occasional series for BBC News (and elsewhere) about songs which are in the news.

(See also: Why Nick Drake is not the patron saint of the miserable; Torture chamber music; Secrets of writing a ‘wallpaper’ hit; Britain’s favourite funeral music; What is a ‘guilty pleasure’?; The Unswinging Sixties; An imagined conversation with Nick Drake)


Stand By Me Ben E King

ace_of_spades

forever_young

louie_louie

god_only_knows

aquarela_do_brasil

another_star

like_a_rolling_stone

shipbuilding

what_a_wonderful_world

london_calling

bohemian_rhapsody

4_33

my_sharona

everybody_hurts

klilling_in_the_name

down_under

hallelujah

two_little_boys

rairytale_of_new_york

anarchy_in_the_uk

flowers_in_the_rain

white_man_hammersmith_palais

a_whiter_shade_of_pale

ernie_fastest_milkman

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    Stories of songs for the BBC &c:
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    • The Lion Sleeps Tonight
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    • Motörhead's Ace of Spades
    • Bob Dylan’s Forever Young
    • The Kingsmen's Louie Louie
    • The Beach Boys’ God Only Knows
    • Ary Barroso’s Aquarela do Brasil
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