Glam
The first appearance of Roxy Music on Top of the Pops was as huge a moment as the first sightings of Bowie and T. Rex and Alice Cooper had been.
Another classic, and another of those songs that lifts my spirits the moment I hear Mick Ralphs’s guitar riff.
Slade had their third of their six number one singles in less than a year when Mama Weer All Crazee Now topped the charts for three weeks in September 1972. (more…)
Alice Cooper’s exhortation to carry out every kid’s dream and blow school to pieces helped take School’s Out to No.1 in the summer holidays of 1972.
David Bowie’s unforgettable performance of Starman was a landmark moment in pop culture and launched him to superstar status. Top of the Pops, 6 July 1972. The day the world changed for ever. For me and, I’m certain, an entire generation of young men and women, girls and boys.
Gary Glitter brought panto-style parody into Glam and this was the song that launched a career that would come to epitomise a meteoric rise and catastrophic fall. (more…)
There was something about Slade, Sweet and T. Rex singles that sets them apart – they seemed to be recorded at twice the volume as any other record. (more…)
David Bowie – Five Years (The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars)
16th June 1972 · 1970s, 1973, Glam, MusicDavid Bowie made his breakthrough in 1972. Routinely rated as one of the best albums of all time, Ziggy was Bowie’s fifth album – but his first to get into the charts.
Roxy Music’s debut album was not a huge success. It was way too ahead of its time. Almost half a century later it sounds strange and futuristic and experimental. For me it’s one of the greatest debuts ever. (more…)
Metal Guru was the greatest of all T. Rex’s run of hit singles and gave them their fourth and final No.1 in May 1972.