Penned by the white R&B songwriter Joe South, "Hush" was a hit in 1967 for Billy Joe Royal, South's best friend, from Valdosta, Georgia. Royal, around on the country scene since the early 1960s, tuned ...

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Cast your minds back to 1997. Oasis and Blur-tastic Britpop had enthralled the nation, not least the new and wannabe groovy Prime Minister Tony Blair, who invited the cream of the then scene to toast ...