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Oscar winning movies with Classic Rock songs: Forrest Gump included Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird.

10 Classic Rock songs from Oscar-winning films

Black Sabbath and their 1963 movie namesake

20 bands named after films

Albums with strong opening tracks from The Doors, The Police, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

The 30 greatest Classic Rock album opening tracks

BRIT Awards champions: Robbie Williams, Adele and Arctic Monkeys.

Who has won the most BRIT Awards in history?

Classic Welsh artists: Catatonia, Manic Street Preachers and Stereophonics.

The best Welsh bands of all time

Big alternative hits from 1983 featureing The Smiths, Echo. The Bunnymen Depeche Mode and The Cure.

The 25 best Indie songs of 1983

Some of the biggest indie tracks of including tracks by The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, Pixies, The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays.

The 25 best Indie Songs of 1989

Great Welsh Classic Rock artists: Badfinger (from Swansea); Bonnie Tyler (from Neath); Tom and Kelly Jones (from Treforest and Cwmaman); and The Alarm (from Rhyl).

The greatest ever Classic Rock songs from Wales

Great TV appearances: Queen on Top Of The Pops; The Stone Roses on The Other Side Of Midnight; The Smiths on The Tube; and David Bowie trying to get into the BBC Television Centre in 1964.

The 10 greatest debut TV appearances

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