Big Youth – The Killer

28th September 1972 · 1970s, 1972, Music, Reggae

Big Youth was one of the earliest and most distinctive toasters. Here he is teaming up with Horace Andy on one of his earliest hits, The Killer. (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…)

Roxy Music – Virginia Plain

16th September 1972 · 1970s, 1972, Glam, Music
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. 

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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.

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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.
 

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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 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.

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