Category - Biography

10cc‘s best known tunes include Dreadlock Holiday, The Things We Do For Love, and I’m Not In Love.

Why did Afroman not release any more hits than Because I Got High? The clue is in the title of this one hit wonder’s best known tune.

Al Green's tunes include A Change Is Gonna Come, Take Me To The River, Let's Stay Together, and How Can You Mend A Broken Heart.

The Velvet Bulldozer - Mr. Albert King is best known for his tune Born Under A Bad Sign, written by Booker T. Jones.

Alicia Keys tunes include This Girl Is On Fire, Empire State Of Mind, If I Ain’t Got You, No One, and Fallin’.

Ann Peebles is best known for her two tunes I Can't Stand The Rain and I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down.

Arctic Monkeys' tunes include I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor, Mardy Bum, Do I Wanna Know? and Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?

Aretha Franklin's tunes include A Natural Woman, Never Loved A Man, A Change Is Gonna Come, Respect, Think, and I Say A Little Prayer.

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B.B. King’s best known tunes include The Thrill Is Gone, Sweet Little Angel, Paying The Cost Yo Be The Boss, and When Love Comes To Town.

Barrett Strong‘s best known tunes include Money (That’s What I Want), I Heard It Through The Grapevine, War, and Wherever I Lay My Hat.

Ben Harper’s best known tunes are two covers, The Drugs Don't Work (The Verve), and Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye).

Berry Gordy's tunes include Money (That’s What I Want) and Do you Love Me. He also founded the Motown record label.

Bessie Smith's tunes include The St. Louis Blues, Downhearted Blues, Baby Won't You Please Come Home, and T'ain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do.

Beyonce's tunes include Bug A Boo, Say My Name, Irreplaceable, Halo, Single Ladies, Deja Vu, Love On Top, Crazy In Love, and Bootylicious.

Bill Withers's tunes include Ain't No Sunshine, Use Me, Lovely Day, Lean On Me, Grandma’s Hands, and Just The Two Of Us.

Billie Holiday is best know for her tunes Strange Fruit, Summertime, Blue Moon, Solitude, April In Paris, and The Way You Look Tonight.

Björn Skifs is a Swedish singer, songwriter, actor and entertainer best known for his #1 tune Hooked On A Feeling.

Blink-182 tunes include All The Small Things, First Date, I Miss You, and What’s My Age Again?

Blues Brothers' tunes include Gimme Some Lovin’, Rawhide, Shake A Tailfeather, Think, Minnie The Moocher, Soul Man, and Jailhouse Rock.

Bob Dylan's best tunes include Blowin' In The Wind, One More Cup Of Coffee, Hurricane, Like A Rolling Stone, and Make You Feel My Love.

Bob Marley tunes include Could You be Loved, One Love, No Woman, No Cry, Redemption Song, Three Little Birds, and I Shot The Sheriff.

Booker T. Jones & The M.G.'s tunes include Born Under A Bad Sign, (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay, Ain’t No Sunshine, Soul Man, and Respect.

Bruno Mars tunes include Marry You, Locked Out Of Heaven, Uptown Funk, Forget You, Billionaire, 24K Magic, Treasure, and Leave The Door Open.

Burt Bacharach's tunes include Arthur's Theme, Close To You, Walk On By, That's What Friends Are For, and I Say A Little Prayer.

Cameo's best-known tunes include Word Up and Candy, a song that has stayed popular due to a dance routine called The Electric Slide.

Carpenters tunes include Close To You, Rainy Days And Mondays, We've Only Just Begun, and Please Mr Postman.

Not just a one-hit wonder! Most famous for her 1991 dance anthem Finally, CeCe Peniston wrote it as a poem whilst bored in a Biology class at high...

Cee Lo Green's best-known tunes include Crazy and Forget You but he's also recorded big covers in Foxey Lady and Let's Stay Together.

Chaka Khan tunes include I Feel For You, I’m Every Woman, Tell Me Something Good, and her signature song Ain't Nobody.

Charlie Parker's tunes include Scrapple From The Apple, Donna Lee, A Night In Tunisia, Ornithology, Billie’s Bounce, and Blues For Alice.

Chet Baker's tunes include My Funny Valentine, I Fall In Love Too Easy, Stella By Starlight, A Foggy Day, and Autumn Leaves.

Chic tunes include I Want Your Love, Dance, Dance, Dance, Le Freak, Everybody Dance, Thinking of You, We Are Family, and Good Times.

Christina Aguilera's tunes include Beautiful, Genie In A Bottle, Candyman, What A Girl Wants, and covers of, At Last, Car Wash, and Fever.

Christopher Cross's tunes include Ride Like The Wind, Sailing, and the epic Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do).

Chuck Berry's best tunes include Maybellene, Johnny B. Goode, Sweet Little Sixteen, No Particular Place To Go, and You Never Can Tell.

Clarence Williams's tunes include Baby Won't You Please Come Home, Everybody Loves My Baby, and Candy Lips (I'm Stuck On You),

Coldplay’s tunes include Yellow, Trouble, The Scientist, Hymn For The Weekend, A Sky Full Of Stars, and Viva La Vida.

Cream's legendary tunes include Crossroads, Sunshine Of Your Love, Strange Brew, I Feel Free, and White Room.

Creedence Clearwater Revival's tunes include Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Bad Moon Rising, Looking Out My Backdoor, and Up Around The Bend.

Daft Punk's best-known tunes include Get Lucky, Around The World, Da Funk, One More Time, and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

Damien Rice's best tunes include Cannonball, Delicate, Volcano, and The Blower's Daughter. All from his debut album O.

Daniel Merriweather‘s most successful tune is Red. Produced by Mark Ronson, it was tipped for great success that never really happened.

David Bowie’s biggest tunes include (Is There) Life On Mars?, Starman, Ziggy Stardust, Let’s Dance, China Girl, and Heroes.

David Gilmour’s best tunes Comfortably Numb, Money, Wish You Were Here, What Do You Want From Me, Another Brick In The Wall, and Echoes.

David Gray's tunes include Babylon, Please Forgive Me, Nightblindess, My Oh My, Be Mine, Sail Away, and This Years Love.

Deep Blue Something is the ultimate one-hit wonder band with their tune Breakfast At Tiffany's which made them famous over night.

Dizzy Gillespie's tunes include A Night In Tunisia, Do I Do (solo on this Stevie Wonder tune), Salt Peanuts, Hot House, Umbrella Man.

DNCE is a band formed from the live backing band of the boyband Jonas Brothers. They are best known for their debut single Cake By The Ocean.

Dolly Parton released 110 singles, among her best known tunes you find Jolene, I Will Always Love You, 9 To 5, and Creepin' In.

Don McLean's tunes include American Pie and Vincent. He also recorded covers such as Wonderful World.

Donna Summer’s tunes include On The Radio, Bad Girls, She Works Hard For The Money, Love To Love You Baby, I Feel Love, and Hot Stuff.

Doris Day’s biggest tunes include Dream A Little Dream Of Me, Fly Me To The Moon, Que Sera, Sera, and Over The Rainbow.

Dusty Springfield’s tunes include Spooky, Son Of A Preacher Man, I Just Don’t Know What To Do, and You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me.

Earth, Wind & Fire tunes include September, After The Love Has Gone, Let's Groove, Got To Get You Into My Life, and Boogie Wonderland.

Ella Fitzgerald's tunes include Baby Won't You Please Come Home, Get Ready, Dream A Little Dream, and Sunshine Of Your Love.

Elvis Presley tunes include That's Alright, Hound Dog, Blue Suede Shoes, Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, In The Ghetto, and Suspicious Minds.

Eric Clapton's tunes include I Shot The Sheriff, Sunshine Of Your Love, Tears In Heaven, Crossroads, Wonderful Tonight, Badge, and Cocaine.

Estelle is best known for her tune American Boy. This was a collaboration between herself, will.i.am, John Legend, and Kanye West.

Etta James tunes include At Last, I Just Wanna Make Love To You, Something’s Got a Hold on Me, and I’d Rather Go Blind.

Eva Cassidy tunes include Over The Rainbow, Time After Time, Autumn Leaves, Kathy’s Song, and Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Feist had enormous success with her tune 1234, largely thanks to an iPod ad back in 2007.

Fontella Bass is best known for her tune Rescue Me, which famously took her 28 years to get paid for writing.

Foo Fighters tunes include All My Life, Everlong, The Pretender, Monkey Wrench, Best Of You, My Hero, and Times Like These.

Four Tops tunes include I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch), Reach Out I’ll Be There, Bernadette, and Ain’t No Woman.

Frank Sinatra's tunes include Angel Eyes, Baby Won’t You Please Come Home, All Of Me, My Way, Strangers In The Night, and New York, New York.

Franki Valli and the Four Seasons tunes include Sherry, Silence Is Golden, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, and December 1963 (Oh, What A Night!).

Freda Payne only had one big tune in Band Of Gold. Written by Holland-Dozier-Holland on their new label Invictus.

Freddie King tunes include The stumble, Hide Away, Have You Ever Loved A Woman, I'm Tore Down, and Ain't No Sunshine.

Free's biggest tunes include Wishing Well, and the song that came to personify classic rock: All Right Now.

Gary Jules biggest tune was a Tears For Fears cover in Mad World, this was the Christmas #1, 2003 in the U.K.

Gary Moore tunes include Still Got The Blues, Walking By Myself, Parisienne Walkways, Empty Rooms, and Over The Hills And Far Away.

George Michael's tunes include Club Tropicana, Last Christmas, Careless Whisper, Faith, Freedom! ‘90, Jesus To A Child, and Fastlove.

Cee Lo Green and Danger Mouse had a band called Gnarles Barkley. Their humongous tune Crazy became a worldwide hit.

Green Day tunes include Time Of Your Life, Basket Cas, American Idiot, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, and Wake Me Up When September Ends.

Harold Arlen tunes include It’s Only A Paper Moon, Stormy Weather, Get Happy, Come Rain Or Come Shine And Over The Rainbow.

Holland-Dozier-Holland tunes include You Can't Hurry Love, Baby Love, Jimmy Mack, Can I Get A Witness, Band Of Gold, and Nowhere To Run.

Jackie Wilson's tunes includes Reet Petite, (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher, and I Get The Sweetest Feeling.

Jaco Pastorius, the best bass player in the world, is known for tunes such as The Chicken, Coyote, Bright Size Life, Birdland, and Donna Lee.

James Taylor's tunes include Fire and Rain, Sweet Baby James, You've Got A Friend, and How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You).

Jason Mraz tunes include Geek In Pink, Life Is Wonderful, Wordplay, and worldwide hit I’m Yours which made Jason Mraz a household name.

Australian Jet had a massive tune in Are You Gonna Be My Girl but struggled to follow it up with any other hits.

John Legend's biggest tunes include American Boy, Ordinary People, Green Light, All Of Me, Compared To What, and So High.

Joh Mayer tunes include Vultures, Belief, Gravity, Your Body Is A Wonderland, Waiting On the World to Change, and Neon.

Journey is best known for their worldwide hit Don't Stop Believin' but also released Open Arms, and Who’s Crying Now.

Judy Garland is best known for singing the best tune in the world, Over The Rainbow, in the 1939 blockbuster Wizard Of Oz.

Julie London is famous for singing Cry Me A River but also sang Fly Me To The Moon, Dream A Little Dream Of Me, and Why Don't You Do Right?

Justin Timberlake's tunes include Like I Love You, Cry Me A River, Rock Your Body, Senorita, Mirrors, and Can't Stop The Feeling!

Kanye West's tunes include American Boy (with Estelle), Gold Digger (with Jammie Foxx), and Stronger (Daft Punk sample).

Katy Perry's best tunes include I Kissed A Girl, Hot n Cold, Firework, California Gurls, Last Friday Night, Teenage Dream, and Roar.

King Harvest are best known for their 1973 release of Dancing In The Moonlight, a song one of their band members had already released.

Among Kool & The Gang's most well-known tunes, you'd find Jungle Boogie, Celebration, Get Down On It, and Ladies Night.

Lenny Kravitz's tunes include Let Love Rule, Fly Away, Are You Gonna Go My Way, It Ain’t Over 'Til It’s Over, and Always On The Run.

Linda Perry's biggest tunes include What's Going On (4 Non Blondes), Beautiful (Christina Aguilera), and Get The Party Started (Pink).

Lionel Richie's tunes include All Night Long, Easy, Brick House, Hello, Three Times A Lady, Too Hot ta Trot, Endless Love, and My Destiny.

Madeleine Peyroux‘a best known tunes include Don't Wait Too Long, You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, and Dance Me To The End Of Love.

Mama Cass of The Mamas & the Papas is best known for her tunes Monday, Monday, California Dreamin', and Dream A Little Dream Of Me.

Mark James's tunes include Suspicious Minds, Hooked On A Feeling, Sunday Sunrise, and You Were Always On My Mind.

Mark Ronson’s best known tunes include Valerie, Uptown Funk, Shallow, Red, Rehab, Oh My God, Nothing Breaks Like A Heart, and Back To Black.

Martha and The Vandellas best tunes include Jimmy Mack, Nowhere To Run, Heat Wave, and Motown’s signature song Dancing In The Street.

Marvin Gaye's tunes include Can I Get A Witness, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, and What's Going On.

Mary Wells was Motown’s first female star. Her big tune was the sugar sweet My Guy, written by Smokey Robinson.

Matt Dennis's tunes include Angel Eyes, Everything Happens To Me, and Will You Still Be Mine.

McFadden & Whitehead wrote many tunes for other artists. Their own hit Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now was incidentally their biggest hit.

Best known for their worldwide smash hit Down Under, Men At Work was the first Australian band to have a #1 album and single in the U.S.

Michael Jackson's tunes include ABC, Billie Jean, Beat It, Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Rock With You, and Blame It On The Boogie.

Mumford & Sons' biggest tunes include Sigh No More, The Cave, Little Lion Man, and their signature song, I Will Wait.

Nat King Cole tunes include L-O-V-E, The Christmas Song, Mona Lisa, Smile, Autumn Leaves, When I Fall In Love, and It’s Only A Paper Moon.

Norah Jones best known tunes include Come Away With Me, Angel Eyes, Creepin' In, and Don't Know Why.

Oasis biggest tunes include Don’t Look Back In Anger, Champagne Supernova, Live Forever, Stand By Me, Morning Glory, and Wonderwall.

Ocean Colour Scene‘s best tunes include Robin Hood, The Riverboat Song, The Day We Caught The Train, and You’ve Got It Bad.

Otis Redding's tunes include Respect, (Sitting On) The Dock Of The Bay, Hard To Handle, and Try A Little Tenderness.

Hip-Hop duo Outkast are best known for their tunes Ms. Jackson and Hey Ya! Two of the world's most popular tunes between 2000-2010.

Paolo Nutini tunes include, Coming Up Easy, Rewind, Scream, Last Request, New Shoes, and Jenny Don’t Be Hasty.

Paul Simon tunes include Tenderness, You Can Call Me Al, Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, and Graceland.

Peggy Lee is best known for her tunes Black Coffee, Big Spender, Fever, and Why Don’t You Do Right?

Peter Green (early Fleetwood Mac) tunes include Need Your Love So Bad, Shake Your Money Maker and the instrumental Albatross.

Pharrell Williams tunes include Caught Out There, Rock Your Body, Milkshake, Drop It Like It’s Hot, Get Lucky, Happy, and Blurred Lines.

Phil Spector's tunes include River Deep, Mountain High, Unchained Melody, Be My Baby, The Long And Winding Road, Let It Be, and Imagine.

Pink Floyd tunes include Another Brick In The Wall, Comfortably Numb, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Money, and Wish You Were Here.

One-hit wonders Plain White T's are known for they tune Hey There Delilah which was played on the radio worldwide in 2007.

Queen tunes include Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, Don’t Stop Me Now, Crazy Little Thing Called Love and I Want To Break Free.

Rage Against The Machine tunes include Bullet In The Head, Know Your Enemy, Killing In The Name, and Bulls On Parade.

Ray Charles best tunes include Mess Around, I've Got A Woman, Georgia On My Mind, Hit The Road Jack, and You Don’t Know Me.

Robbie Williams's tunes include Angels, Rock DJ, Strong, Let Me Entertain You, and No Regrets.

Robin Thicke started out producing artists before he released his own tunes. In 2013, Blurred Lines made him a household name.

Roger Miller's best known tunes include Billy Bayou, Oo-De-Lally, Dang Me, England Swings, and his signature song King Of The Road.

Rose Royce's biggest tunes include Car Wash, I’m Going Down, I Wanna Get Next To You, Do Your Dance, Ooh Boy, and Wishing On A Star.

Sam & Dave are best known for their tunes Soul Man, Soothe Me, and Hold On, I’m Comin’.

Sam Cooke's tunes include A Change Is Gonna Come, Wonderful World, You Send Me, Bring It On Home, and Chain Gang.

Scissor Sisters best known tunes include Take Your Mama, Mary, and I Don’t Feel Like Dancing which they wrote with Elton John.

Shalamar's biggest tune was A Night To Remember. During the performance of it on British Top Of The Pops, Jeffrey Daniel did the moonwalk.

Simon & Garfunkel tunes include Scarborough Fair, Cecilia, Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Boxer, Mrs. Robinson, and Homeward Bound.

Sixpence None The Richer are best known for their tune Kiss Me and covers Don’t Dream It’s Over and There She Goes.

Smokey Robinson tunes include Shop Around, You Really Got A Hold on Me, The Tears Of A Clown, My Girl, My Guy, and Get Ready.

Spanky Wilson is a respected soul singer most famous for her version of the Cream tune Sunshine Of Your Love.

Stevie Ray Vaughan tunes include Pride & Joy, Texas Flood, Couldn’t Stand The Weather, Mary Had A Little Lamb, and Lenny.

Stevie Wonder's tunes include Sir Duke, I Wish, Master Blaster, Lately, For Once In My Life, Isn't She Lovely, Superstition, and As.

Sting’s tunes include Fragile, Englishman In New York, Shape Of My Heart, Fields Of Gold, It’s Probably Me, and Seven Days.

T-Bone Walker‘a best tunes include Call It Stormy Monday, Papa Ain't Salty, Party Girl, and T-Bone Shuffle.

Tammi Terrell's tunes include Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, and You’re All I Need To Get By.

Tears For Fears are best known for their tunes Mad World, Seeds Of Love, and Everybody Wants To Rule The World.

The Beatles tunes include Blackbird, Can't Buy Me Love, Twist & Shout, Get Back, Yesterday, Come Together, and Back In The U.S.S.R.

American The Black Crowes are best known for their tunes Remedy and Hard To Handle, the latter an Otis Redding cover.

The Contours are best known for their hit Do You Love Me. A Motown's one-ht wonder, they didn't have success with any other tunes.

The Emotions most popular tunes are The Best Of My Love, and Boogie Wonderland. Both songs were written by Earth, Wind & Fire.

Multi-ethnic British band The Foundations tunes include Baby, Now That I’ve Found You and Build Me Up Buttercup.

The Fratellis are best known for their tunes Henrietta, Chelsea Dagger, and my personal favourite, Whistle For The Choir.

The Funk Brothers were Motown's house band. They didn't write anything but played on some of the best tunes ever recorded.

The Kinks are best known for the tunes Lola, Sunny Afternoon, All Day And All Of The Night, Waterloo Sunset, and You Really Got Me.

The Libertines are best known for their outrageous lifestyle, being NME's darlings, and their tune Don’t Look Back Into The Sun.

Best known for their tunes Cissy Strut and Just Kissed My Baby, The Meters are one of the founders of Funk alongside James Brown.

The Monkees best tunes include I’m A Believer, Last Train To Clarksville, (Theme from) The Monkees, and Daydream Believer.

The Police tunes include include Every Breath You Take, So Lonely, Message In A Bottle, Walking On The Moon, and Roxanne.

The Righteous Brothers' tunes include You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’, Unchained Melody, and Bill Medley's (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life.

The Rolling Stones' tunes include Angie, Beast Of Burden, Miss You, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Honky Tonk Women, and Brown Sugar.

The Ronettes only had one big tune in Be My Baby. Perhaps this had to do with Phil Spector having locked their lead singer up in his house.

The Spencer Davis Group's best tunes include Keep On Running, Georgia On My Mind, I’m a Man, and their signature song, Gimme Some Lovin’.

The Strokes' best tunes include The Adults Are Talking, Someday, Hard To Explain, and their signature song, Last Nite.

The Supremes' tunes include You Can't Hurry Love, Baby Love, Stop! In the Name of Love, Where Did Our Love Go, and You Keep Me Hangin' On.

The Temptations best known tunes include My Girl, Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Get Ready, and Ain’t Too Proud To Beg.

The Trammps are best known for their hit Disco Inferno but also had tunes like Hold Back the Night, and That's Where the Happy People Go.

The Verve‘s biggest tunes include Bitter Sweet Symphony, Lucky Man and The Drugs Don’t Work.

Thin Lizzy tunes include Whiskey In The Jar, The Boys Are Back In Town, Jailbreak, Don’t Believe A Word, and Dancing In The Moonlight.

Tina Turner's tunes include Proud Mary, Nutbush City Limits, River Deep, Mountain High, The Best, and What's Love Got To With It.

Toploader is best known for the cover of Dancing In The Moonlight (1999). The idea to record it came from their producer Dave Eringa.

Toto's tunes include Africa, Rosanna, Hold The Line, Georgy Porgy, and Stop Loving You. They were also Michael Jackson's studio band.

Tracy Chapman’s best known tunes include Baby Can I Hold You, Fast Car, and Talkin’ ‘Bout A Revolution.

Van Morrison tunes include Gloria, Brown Eyed Girl, Moondance, Crazy Love, Caravan, and Have I Told You Lately That I Love You.

Will.i.am's biggest tunes include I Gotta Feeling and Boom Boom Pow with Black Eyed Pease, as well as American Boy with Estelle.