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Ballet music, where the music is as important as the dance, was a product of the late 19th Century onwards and was led by Russian composers such as  Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and, here, Sergei Prokofiev. You can almost picture Cinders' dream.

For musicologists, the period between rock & roll and the Beatles first single in 1962 (Love Me Do) is often seen as rather quaint, but Runaway is certainly not quaint with Del's vocals and the instrumental break from the Musitron, an instrument, according to Wiki, based on the Clavioline, a forerunner to the synthesizer invented by Constant Martin in France in 1947. Check it out.

Lovers' Rock, romantic reggae put crudely, came to prominence in London in the 1970s, and has been a huge influence in the decades since, especially on R&B and hip-hop. One of film director Steve McQueen's recent Small Axe films was entitled Lovers Rock and featured this song, probably the best known of the genre.

Like TV ballroom dancing, the Eurovision Song Contest survived ridicule by becoming ridiculous. However, it has thrown up some talented winners. Remember Diggi-loo Diggi-Ley by Herreys?

France Gall was French but won in 1965 when representing Luxembourg. This track wasn't her winning effort but is superior and has a great video, 20 years before MTV. It was written by Serge Gainsbourg, last week's Song of the Week artist.

Serge is probably best known outside France for 'Je t'aime', but he was responsible for many other and better works across various media including film and prose and especially via 16 albums.

This track is from 1968. It is based on an English language poem written by 'Bonnie' Parker, one half of the 1930s outlaw couple after whom the song is named. Brigitte shares the vocals with Serge.

To the untrained ear, like your Song of the Week editor's, this piece sounds as though it might have been written in 1582. In fact it was written in 1982. John Tavener was one of the leading composers of choral religious music in the 20th century. The Lamb, a setting to music of the William Blake poem of 1789, is featured in the soundtrack for Paolo Sorrentino's Oscar-winning film The Great Beauty.

You may also be interested to know that John Taverner (sic) was a sixteenth century writer of choral music.

Some of us have a jukebox (see wiki if under 40) in our heads. You know how it is, someone speaks and a song is already playing.

So when Maria and Beth from the Events team were discussing whether a black sculpture could sit on a black tablecloth (it couldn't) the song was ready and waiting in your editor's head. He suspects he had the (inferior) disco version in mind, but just in case here are both well-known versions, the first by the Spanish band Los Bravos, the second by French disco divas Belle Epoque.

As you know, we often accompany our research case studies on social media with a short video introduction by the author or authors. But sometimes words are not enough.

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Revising work isn't just for mathematicians. Charles Dickens edited his novels for new editions, Henry James rewrote many of his novels late in life and musicians from Gustav Mahler to Joni Mitchell have revised or re-recorded their work as their perspectives changed.

Jonathan Richman recorded several versions of Road Runner including this one without his usual band, The Modern Lovers (despite what YouTube claims below). Richman described it as an ode to Massachusetts Route 128.

Bill Evans sounds like the name of someone running a haulage company, but this Bill Evans was a pianist and one of the most influential figures in modern jazz. Peace Piece, from 1958, will you send you peacefully in to the weekend.