Wacky songs referencing England’s former and current capital cities
A23
The first is more original and off the wall, but there’s something weirdly ambiguous about the quality of fake in the second.
Music
Nina Simone sings “The Black Freighter”
A19
Words are by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill, both from the Threepenny Opera (1928).
Some music by three singers from South Wales – two with dads who were coalminers and a third who herself was a steelworker
A18
What do the singers Tom Jones and Bonnie Tyler and the late actor Richard Burton all have in common?
How cool is this musical instrument, the theremin?
A9
It’s played without being touched.
Wild Man Fischer
A5
In the year of 1963, he was committed to a mental institution.