Music Lyrics

While rehearsing “Ode to Joy,” the climactic final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, soprano Pat Rowser discovered it had plenty of high notes. And another challenge presented itself: “Ode to Joy” lyrics are in German.

Baffled Cambridge University students were asked to compare a 15th century poem with lyrics by troubled singer Amy Winehouse in their final year exam paper.

Cambridge University students have been asked to compare the lyrics of Amy Winehouse with the poetry of Sir Walter Ralegh in a final year exam paper.

Cambridge University students have been asked to compare the lyrics of the pop star Amy Winehouse with the poetry of Sir Walter Ralegh in a final year exam paper.

Eminem once said in Without Me that the FCC wont let him be. The FCC , short for Federal Communications Commission, presides over the TV and airwaves by censoring material deemed unacceptable before it hits our ears and eyes.

They are the some of the foremost figures in English literature - Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and Raleigh. Now Amy Winehouse has been elevated alongside them - after her work was included in a Cambridge University exam.

Cambridge University students have been asked to analyse lyrics by singer Amy Winehouse in a final-year exam.

A creative and subtle jazz and ballad vocalist, Aniya puts a lot of heart and feeling into the lyrics that she sings. Her warm and quietly expressive voice is heard regularly in the Los Angeles area.

John Hiatt’s conversational lyrics sound off-the-cuff, which means they likely resulted from many hours of labour. The work was worth it, because “Same Old Man” ranks with the best music of Hiatt’s 34-year recording career.

As spoken verse, it may scan a little awkwardly, and the rhymes could be considered somewhat laboured. But Amy Winehouse might argue that her lyrics were never intended to be scrutinised by the poetry brains of Cambridge University.