‘I just loved to sing!’: Brenda Lee on inspiring Elvis, Lennon and Taylor Swift – and topping the chart at 78 | Pop and rock

Brenda Lee rehearses for the ITV show Oh Boy! on the street in Islington, London, in 1959.

Recorded in 1958, Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree has long since joined the select group of festive songs that boom out of radios, shops and pubs at this time of year. The song […]