Best songs released by artists from or connected to Blackpool including The Pet Shop Boys, The Cure and The Nolans
Aimee Seddon
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Best songs released by artists from Blackpool according to readers. (Photo: Getty)
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!
The group, which formed in Blackpool, received plenty of mentions (Photo: submit/other 3rd party)
The only continuous member of the group, Robert Smith (pictured) is from Blackpool.
Chris Lowe (pictured with Neil Tennant in 2017) is from Blackpool. (Photo by Tabatha Fireman/Getty Images)
Three of the founding members were from Blackpool (Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Instrumentalist David Ball is from Blackpoo. (Photo: ANDREW WHITTON)
A "great video too" according to one reader. (Photo: submit)
The Blackpool band released a cover of the Kinks song. Their song 'Go Ape' with Reverend Black was also mentioned (Photo: archive)
Rock band formed in Blackpool in 2013 (Photo: Chris Clough Photography 2014)
23-year-old Millie Bracewell from Blackpool went viral twice with this ‘diss’ track. (Photo: Will Durocher)
Blackpool band pictured in an archived picture from 2012. (Photo: Archive)
Pictured is Blackpool born Larry Cassidy who first formed the group with his brother
Pictured is lead singer Tony Mitchell years after the band stopped playing.
A ‘folk grunge’ outfit founded in South Shore. (Photo: submit)
A 1970s punk rock band based in Blackpool (Photo: submit)
Sugababes stars Siobhán Donaghy, Keisha Buchanan and Mutya Buena are headlining a concert at a secret London location amid an incredible comeback that has already included Glastonbury and supporting Take That
Denny Laine, who has died aged 79, was a singer and guitarist with the Moody Blues before spending the 1970s with Wings, Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles outfit; he featured prominently on two chart-toppers, singing lead vocals on the Moodys’ first big hit, Go Now!, and going on to co-write Wings’ Mull of Kintyre, which outsold all The Beatles’ singles.
Singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias and music rights platform Influence Media Partners have announced a new major partnership deal spanning his professional career along with name, image, and likeness rights to expand future licensing opportunities. The deal includes his pre-2021 masters (released by Universal and independents); Bloomberg reports that the deal, which is the first name-image-likeness deal …
Denny Laine, a British singer, songwriter and guitarist who performed in an early, pop-oriented version of the Moody Blues and was later Paul McCartney's longtime sideman in the ex-Beatle's solo band Wings, has died at age 79. Laine, inducted five years ago into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues, died Tuesday in Naples, Florida. The cause was interstitial lung disease, according to an announcement on Laine's Instagram page by his wife, Elizabeth Hines.
George's Rockstars, a charity inspired by a Hampshire boy which helps children in hospital rock, has launched a Christmas single, Let's Make Christmas Loud.
IN FOCUS: Every family is bound together by its own unique festive rituals, and for Helen Brown and her kids, one of those is an old, little-known Christmas album by Hootie and the Blowfish. No wonder Cher is getting into the crowded yuletide music parade, where performers have their songs put on each year like Christmas jumpers