Rock&Roll

..... the song with the above title has been recorded on more than 200 singles and albums and by many famous singers, including Bing Crosby, Connie Francis, John McCormack and Roger Whittaker. Ireland is a country renowned not...

This article features four Norwegian rock music performers well known in Scandinavia but possibly not so well known in other parts of the world. In 2009 Norway issued a set of four stamps honouring their musical achievements. On the...

Small selection of stamps recently added to PostBeeld's stock: Austria 2018, woven textile stamp with Tyrolean hat. Also Austria 2018. Has the Viennese Tuba ever featured so prominently on a postage stamp? Lovely colour-shaded Child Welfare Dutch stamps from 1925. Germany Federal Republic...

In this second part of the story we provide an analysis of the song Bohemian Rhapsody. Freddie Mercury never really gave a clear explanation about the meaning of the song’s lyrics. The text contains many philosophical and religious elements. According...

An extremely popular event is held each year in the period between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day in The Netherlands. A radio station, NPO Radio 2, hosts a week-long programme playing what listeners vote to be the best...

The next instalment of Great Britain’s Royal Mail Music Giants Special Stamp series - a tribute to David Bowie, one of the most influential music and cultural figures of all time - was released on 14 March 2017. Alongside the Special...

Undoubtedly there will be some Queen fans today who commemorate singer Freddie Mercury today because he would have turned 70 this day. Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on 5 september 1946 in Stonetown in what was then Zanzibar. He grew up...

Great Britain's Royal Mail has issued commemorative stamps to mark 50 years of one of the world's most popular bands, Pink Floyd. The set of 10 stamps features album covers and live performance photos to mark 1966 – the year...

You have possibly seen certain stamps and wondered: “Who gave the authority for these stamps to be released?” Stamps whose design or illustration is so poor that you think they might even make an amusingly-collectible topic. The king of ugly stamps Below...

Day after day new postage stamps are issued depicting a variety of topics. Here are some examples of recently-issued stamps featuring a variety of topics. They might make some people’s skin crawl, but this recently-released set featuring snakes native to...