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The Great British Songbook

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Publisher: Wise Publications

   
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From The Beatles and The Kinks to Radiohead and David Gray, the breadth and variety of British songwriting since the 1950s is breathtaking, with countless bands and artists forging styles that are unique and individual, yet still capable of capturing a certain quintessential 'Britishness'. A great song can harness the spirit of its times, and each new band or solo artist adds their own personal voice to the legacy, documenting the next chapter in the British way of life.

This celebratory songbook brings together all those poignant, nostalgic or fun-filled moments of British pop that have grown to characterise a time or event of historical and social significance. Every era is covered, from the opulent swinging sixties, through the recession-inspired punks of the 1970s and the subsequent New Wave and right up to the multi-cultural sounds of post-Britpop Britain.

With over 170 songs on offer, your guaranteed to find some timeless favourites, a few new discoveries, and even one or two classics you'd otherwise forgotten about! Nothing has been missed - there's the daft comedy of The Funky Gibbon, the sly inner-city paranoia of Ghost Town, Nick Drake's Cotswold delicacy, and the old-time pub singalong My Old Man's A Dustman. Each song has been presented with melody line, lyrics and chords, and the 368 pages are punctuated with some great photographs of the artists at the peak of their success.


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Sales Rank:
1254
Published on:
12/07/2006
Format:
Mixed Songbook
Length:
368 pages
Language:
English
Catalogue #:
AM986007
ISBN:
9781846096082

Songlist and Samples

Songlist
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2 Become 1 [Spice Girls, The]
20th Century Boy [T Rex]
A Bicycle Built For Two (Daisy Bell) [Dacre, Harry]
A Design For Life [Manic Street Preachers]
A Little Time [Beautiful South, The]
A Whiter Shade Of Pale [Procol Harum]
All Around My Hat
All Right Now [Free]
All The Young Dudes [Mott The Hoople]
Alright [Supergrass]
Angels [Williams, Robbie] [Chambers, Guy] View
Angie [Rolling Stones, The]
Apache [Shadows, The]
Babylon [Gray, David]
Back For Good [Take That]
Baker Street [Rafferty, Gerry]
Bird Of Paradise [Snowy White]
Black Magic Woman [Fleetwood Mac]
Born Free [Monro, Matt]
Bright Eyes [Batt, Mike]
Brimful Of Asha [Cornershop]
Bring Me Sunshine [Kent, Arthur]
Brown Eyed Girl [Morrison, Van]
Can't Get You Out Of My Head [Minogue, Kylie]
Careless Whisper [Wham]
Catch The Wind [Donovan]
Clair [O'sullivan, Gilbert]
Come On Eileen [Dexy's Midnight Runners]
Comfortably Numb [Pink Floyd]
Common People [Pulp]
Creep [Radiohead]
Cum On Feel The Noize [Slade]
Don't Cry For Me Argentina [Lloyd Webber, Andrew]
Don't Look Back In Anger [Oasis]
Downtown [Clark, Petula]
Dry Your Eyes [Streets, The]
Eastenders [Osbourne, Leslie] [May, Simon]
Eloise [Ryan, Barry]
English Rose [Jam, The]
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) [Buzzcocks, The]
Every Breath You Take [Police, The]
Fairytale Of New York [The Pogues] View
Feeling Good [Simone, Nina]
Flash, Bang, Wallop! [Steele, Tommy]
Floral Dance [Moss, Katie]
Forever Autumn [Vigrass, Paul] [Osbourne, Gary] [Wayne, Jeff]
Gaye [Ward, Clifford T.]
Georgy Girl [Dale, Jim] [Springfield, Tom]
Ghost Town [Specials, The]
Girls And Boys [Blur]
Golden Brown [Stranglers, The]
Goldfinger [Barry, John] [Bricusse, Leslie] [Newley, Anthony]
Goodbye-ee [Cook, Peter] [Moore, Dudley]
Goodnight Sweetheart [Noble, Ray] [Campbell, Jimmy] [Connelly, Reg]
Gotta Get Thru This [Bedingfield, Daniel]
Here Comes The Rain Again [Eurythmics]
House Of The Rising Sun [Animals, The]
How Deep Is Your Love [Bee Gees, The]
I Believe In A Thing Called Love [Darkness, The]
I Could Be Happy With You [Wilson, Sandy]
I Did What I Did For Maria [Christie, Tony]
I Don't Like Mondays [Boomtown Rats, The]
I Only Want To Be With You [Hawker, Mike] [Raymonde, Ivor]
I Should Have Known Better [Diamond, Jim]
If I Ruled The World [Bricusse, Leslie] [Ornadel, Cyril]
I'm Not In Love [10cc]
Imagine [Lennon, John]
In A Broken Dream [Python Lee Jackson]
In Between Days [Cure, The]
In The Air Tonight [Collins, Phil]
In The Summertime [Mungo Jerry]
Island Of Dreams [Springfield, Tom]
It Must Be Love [Siffre, Labi]
Itchycoo Park [Small Faces, The]
It's A Sin [Pet Shop Boys]
It's Not Unusual [Jones, Tom]
Karma Chameleon [Culture Club]
Keep The Home Fires Burning [Novello, Ivor] [Guilbert, Leena]
Life For Rent [Dido]
Lily The Pink [Scaffold]
Living Doll [Richard, Cliff]
Living In The Past [Jethro Tull]
Living Next Door To Alice [Smokie]
Love And Affection [Armatrading, Joan]
Love Is All Around [Troggs, The]
Love Will Tear Us Apart [Joy Division]
Love's Old Sweet Song [Molloy, James]
Lucky Man [Emerson, Lake & Palmer]
Mad World [Tears For Fears]
Maggie May [Stewart, Rod]
Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) [Harley, Steve And Cockney Rebel]
May You Never [Martyn, John]
Me And My Girl [Gay, Noel]
Memory [Lloyd Webber, Andrew]
Mr. Blue Sky [Electric Light Orchestra]
Mrs. Worthington [Coward, Noel]
Mull Of Kintyre [Wings]
Music [Miles, John]
My Old Man's A Dustman [Donegan, Lonnie And His Group]
Nellie The Elephant [Butler, Ralph] [Hart, Peter]
Never Ever [All Saints]
Never Gonna Give You Up [Astley, Rick]
Nights In White Satin [Moody Blues, The]
Northern Sky [Drake, Nick]
Oliver's Army [Costello, Elvis And The Attractions]
One [U2]
Paranoid [Black Sabbath]
Perfect [Fairground Attraction]
Pick Up The Pieces [Average White Band]
Pinball Wizard [Who, The]
Prince Charming [Adam And The Ants]
Puppet On A String [Coulter, Phil] [Martin, Bill]
Put Your Records On [Rae, Corinne Bailey]
Rabbit [Chas And Dave]
Right Said Fred [Dicks, Ted]
Rio [Duran Duran]
Roses Of Picardy [Wood, Haydn]
Run [Snow Patrol]
Run, Rabbit, Run [Gay, Noel] [Butler, Ralph]