Glam
My all-time favourite David Bowie single followed The Jean Genie. It was another song from his forthcoming album Aladdin Sane – Drive-In Saturday. (more…)
I love the filthy fuzzed-up guitar squall that starts this song. Sleazy and crunchy; grunge before grunge. (more…)
This raucous, rousing rocker was Slade’s fourth number one, and another absolute belter. (more…)
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…)
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