Glam
Mere months after his last two hits in two different bands – The Move and Electric Light Orchestra – Roy Wood returned to the charts leading an octet called Wizzard.
The Jean Genie was still in the top ten when The Sweet came along with exactly the same second-hand riff and outdid Bowie by going all the way to number one with Block Buster!
Bowie’s third single of 1972 offered a tantalising first taste of his next album Aladdin Sane, the follow-up to his breakthrough Ziggy Stardust. Unforgivably, it was kept off the top of the January chart the following year by Little Jimmy bloody Osmond.
Bowie reached his creative peak in 1972-73 and this song – John, I’m Only Dancing – bridged the brief gap between Ziggy Stardust and the next album, Aladdin Sane.
Onward to 1973 and the year began the way all good years began in the early Seventies – with another T. Rex hit.
Steve Priest (February 23, 1948 – June 4, 2020) (more…)
The loose ramshackle sound of this song can be attributed to one thing – they had never played it before the day they recorded it. And this was only the second take. (more…)
Alice Cooper’s second big hit seems like the perfect soundtrack for what was about to happen in the USA in November 2020. (more…)
Amazingly, this was The Sweet’s sixth straight hit single in 18 months when it reached No.4 in September 1972. But it was the first one they actually played on. (more…)
T. Rex were going for their fifth number one with Children Of The Revolution but had to settle for their third No.2 instead. (more…)
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