In this unifying ballad, Barry Manilow shares how it takes just one voice to speak up and inspire solidarity for positive change. According to Manilow, the song came to him in a dream: "It woke me up and I croaked it into my cassette recorder and then went back to sleep. When I woke up and played it back, there it was. A whole song. Amazing."

"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success,[1] the song found greater popular acclaim through a new version recorded by John Cale in 1991. Cale's version inspired a 1994 recording by Jeff Buckley which in 2004 was ranked number 259 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song achieved widespread popularity after Cale's version of it was

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"Moonlight Shadow" is a song written and performed by English multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, released as a single in May 1983 by Virgin Records, and included on his eighth album, Crises, of the same year.[5] The vocals were performed by Scottish vocalist Maggie Reilly, who had collaborated with Mike Oldfield since 1980. It is Oldfield's most successful single, reaching number one on numerous charts around Europe. In the UK, it reached number four during a nineteen-week

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"You're So Vain" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, released as a single in November 1972. The lyrics describe a self-absorbed lover, whose identity has long been a matter of speculation. Simon said the song refers to three men, one of whom she has named publicly—the actor Warren Beatty. In 1972, Simon told an interviewer that the song was about "men", not a specific man.[14] In 1983, she said it was not about Mick Jagger,[15] who contributed uncredited

"Viva la Vida" (/ˌviːvə lə ˈviːdə/, Spanish: [ˈbiβa la ˈβiða]; Spanish for 'long live life')[4][5] is a song by the British rock band Coldplay. It was written by all members of the band for their fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), on which the band explored new styles. The lyrics contain historical and Christian references (King Louis XVI and the French Revolution, "Roman cavalry choirs", Saint Peter) and the track is built around a looping string

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"To Love Somebody" was first released in Britain on 30 June 1967.[13] Billboard described the single as a "smooth, easy beat ballad" that "should put them right back up there at the top of the Hot 100."[14] Record World said that it "is well written; the group, the Gee Bees [sic], sing it well."

"Perfect" was the first track Sheeran wrote for his third studio album ÷.[8] The song is a romantic ballad focusing on traditional marriage, written about his wife-to-be Cherry Seaborn, whom he knew from school and then reconnected with when she was working in New York.[9][10] Sheeran revealed that the inspiration for the lyrics came after visiting James Blunt's house in Ibiza, where the two singers had listened to the rapper Future's music at six in the morning.[11] He said:

"It's Raining Again" is a song recorded by the British rock band Supertramp and released as a single from their 1982 album …Famous Last Words… with credits given to Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, although as indicated on the album sleeve, it is a Hodgson composition.[Note 1] The end of the song incorporates the old nursery rhyme "It's Raining, It's Pouring". Cash Box said it is "vintage Supertramp with all of the elements that have made the group’s sound so distinctive"

"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" is a song by the British synth-pop duo Eurythmics. It was released in January 1983 by RCA Records as the fourth and final single from their second album, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (1983). It was Eurythmics' breakthrough hit, establishing them worldwide.

"¿Quién será?" and "Sway" have been recorded dozens of times by many artists over the decades, many of which have been included in feature films and TV episodes. Norman Gimbel took the song, removed the somewhat melancholy Spanish lyrics about a man wondering if he shall ever love again, and wrote brand-new English lyrics about a man praising his dancing partner's ability to affect his heart with how she "sways" when they dance. This new song, titled "Sway", has become a stan

"Don't Stop" is a song by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, written by Christine McVie. The song was sung by Lindsey Buckingham and McVie, and was released as a single from the band's album Rumours (1977). One of the band's most enduring hits, "Don't Stop" was released as the second single from Rumours in the United Kingdom in April 1977, peaking at No. 32, while in the US it followed "Dreams" as the third single from the album in June, eventually peaking at No. 3

The House of the Rising Sun" is an American traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans. Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the English rock band The Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and in the U.S. and Canada. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock ban

Words by Sir David Attenborough, Music by Brian Beresford

" Bohemian Rhapsody " is a song by the British rock band Queen , released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera (1975). Written by Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury , the song is a six-minute suite , [4] notable for its lack of a refraining chorus and consisting of several sections: an intro , a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part, and a reflective coda . [5] It is one of the few progressive rock songs of the 1970

" The Happening " is a 1967 song recorded by Motown artists The Supremes . It served as the theme song of the 1967 Columbia Pictures film The Happening , and was released as a single by Motown at the time of the film's release that spring. While the movie flopped, the song peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in May, The single has been described as being "in the good-time rhythm music bag" as "the trio changes pace with this classy performance of

" Soon May the Wellerman Come ", also known as " Wellerman " or " The Wellerman ", is a folk song in ballad style first published in New Zealand in the 1970s. The "wellermen" were supply ships owned by the Weller brothers , three merchant traders in the 1800s who were amongst the earliest European settlers of the Otago region of New Zealand.