News about Al Martino

Malcolm Wareing, 92, had been pleading with staff at Chapel Lodge Care home in Burnley, Lancs, for months to 'promise' that their wife of 69 years will be with him. The staff began secretly planning Edna's move into the family's house, and they tried to hold the news top secret, unbeknown to Malcolm. (Pictured: The sweet moment Malcolm Wareing and his wife Edna reunite)

In 1952, In My Heart topped the UK charts for the first time and marking the debut of one of the most enduring festive traditions. Back in the days, there was no Premier League, and Arsenal captured the title on goal average from Preston. England football took another 26 years to find a more straight forward style of tiebreaking, though the Premier League's existential revolution came a full four decades after Al Martino's ballad ruled the airwaves.

Pop songs are getting shorter, according to a recent report, with the average length of a Number 1 being shorter than four. The trend is being blamed on the death of CDs, according to chart analysts, with streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music leading us away from the turntable. According to chart analyst and historian James Masterton, artists are foregoing a lengthy introduction in favour of a catchy hook that might result in a viral hit.

ROBERT HARDMAN: Monarchs, who have a particular place in history, are still entitled to the dignity of a 'age'. The Georges, Victoria, Edward VII, the Georges, would all come to define not only a time but a period of time, a mood, or even a style of architecture. However, history will tell that one king whose reign defied any such classification. Queen Elizabeth II's reign spanned way much (left is her coronation; top inset is with Diana in 1982, bottom inset as a young princess in 1942, right age two). On her watch, entire eras have come and gone. She had lead her country through the Jet Age, the Space Age, and the crown's unsurpassed stewardship of the monarch came to an end. It is an extraordinary fact that more than half of the world's nations today do not exist in their current state when she assumed the throne. We had long been in Britain, so accustomed to this utterly consistent routine in all of our lives that we had almost come to take her for granted. Queen Elizabeth II, on the other hand, portrayed stability on a massive, enviable scale. Her coronation will occur before their constitutions, national anthems, flags, and currencies. She was history made flesh.