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The Pandemic was tough on many artists as they were unable to perform. But some thrived, such as Sophie Ellis-Bextor with her live weekly "Kitchen Disco" concerts featuring herself and her family, streamed live from their kitchen on Instagram. All of which helped revive Sophie's career culminating  in the appearance of this track in the movie 'Saltburn' and a spot at the 2024 BAFTAs.

It's Murder on the Dancefloor, but it's worth the wait (DJ).

Brahms only wrote four symphonies and the first one took him 21 years, but he had hit his stride by the time of the third which he composed in 1883. This is the famous third movement.

Grime music emerged in East London in the early 2000s out of UK jungle and hip-hop with a signature sound of speed to the tune of 140 beats per minute.

Lady Leshurr is one of its female stars.

Mr Pitiful at his best with the band smashing it. From the 'Otis Blue' album.

'Night Mail' is an iconic 1936 film made by the Post Office about the night mail train collecting and taking post to Scotland. The words in this last three minutes of the film are by poet W. H. Auden, then still in his twenties, and the music by composer Benjamin Britten, then only 22. The dog is not credited.

It's a chilly night in Stockholm in 1966 and the Small Faces are in town. Check out the young girl dancing at 1.39.

Madonna Ciccone is in trouble. Two fans are suing her for coming on stage two hours late. They should count themselves lucky. For those of us old enough to have been to gigs in the last Millennium, two hours is positively early. 

There is much Madonna from which to chose, but your Song of the Week editor, being old, has a soft post for 'Borderline'. Mainly because it is fab.

When Mark E Smith, founder  of the Fall, heard Coldcut's track 'My Telephone' he thought the guitar, bass and drums fine, but the words, vocals and all the rest of it, rubbish. So he rewrote it (and made it about phone tapping). Smith could be awkward to say the least, and his vocal style (you'd hesitate to call it singing) singular, but he could also be compelling.

This is a traditional English folk song arranged by English 20th century composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. In it a young man's grief over the death of his true love is so deep that it disturbs her eternal sleep and she tells him to live his life.

When his record company told avant-garde musician Anthony Moore that his work was not commercial enough he wasn't happy. Or rather he was Slapp Happy, the name he gave to his new band with their deliberately commercial sound.  The band became less commercial subsequently but not before songs such as 'Blue Flower' bloomed. Dagmar Krause provides the distinctive voice.