On 7 September 1976, Clapton wrote “Wonderful Tonight” for Boyd while waiting for her to get ready to attend Paul and Linda McCartney’s annual Buddy Holly party. Of “Wonderful Tonight”, Boyd would say: “For years it tore at me. To…
White Christmas is the biggest selling single in history, and certainly a very nice Christmas song. It was composed by Irving Berlin and the first known version was recorded by Bing Crosby in 1942. The morning after writing the song,…
One of the most popular single of Michael Jackson is “Smooth Criminal” from the album “Bad“. This song has been interpreted as a cover in many ways, including with the classical guitar, flamenco and fingerstyle. Interestingly, especially the percussive aspect…
Agustín Pío Barrios Mangoré was a great guitar player from Paraguay. His talent was not realized during his lifetime, but some of his compositions for solo guitar are among the most beautiful and played by this instrument. Among his most…
“The Entertainer” is one of the most popular songs of Scott Joplin and is probably the best known piano rag. More notoriety came from the movie “The Sting” in 1973, where the composer pianist Marvin Hamlisch used Joplin’s music for…
The song “Cavatina” by Stanley Myers, was originally composed for piano, but was later re-written for guitar by the same author, on the suggestion of John Williams, who recorded it before the film “The Deer Hunter” in 1978. Thanks to…
