Five years ago Euro-pop singer Gunther enjoyed a moment in the sun when his "Ding Dong Song (Touch My Tralala)" briefly became an international music meme. His debut album, Pleasureman, hit U.S.

The "Wizard of Oz" song "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead" has been adopted by anti-Margaret Thatcherites, who urged people in the U.K. to buy the song this week after Thatcher died. This final note as we ...

THE BBC has argued it is obliged to play Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead because the pop charts are a "historical and factual" account of what the public is buying. That sounds like a decent enough ...