The great Steve Cropper wrote Dock Of The Bay with Otis Redding a week before the singer perished in a plane crash in December 1967. It went on to become the sixth most played song of the 20th century. Cropper also produced the track, which ushered in a long career writing, producing and...

The role of the arranger is often overlooked in the story of pop music, so let’s meet one of the busiest in the business in the 1960s and ‘70s, John Cameron, who’s very first commissioned arrangement, Donovan’s Sunshine Superman went to No. 1 in the USA. It started a long association with...

Jim Irvin chats with an artist he has collaborated with extensively, Lissie, a restless native of Rock Island, Illinois, about When I’m Alone, the first song they wrote together (with writer and producer Julian Emery), which made her known all over the world.  She talks about her memories of the...