They might have been in the Second Division of Glam but Mud came close to earning promotion with their first chart topper at the start of 1974.

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When Brian Eno left after their second album, For Your Pleasure, most of Roxy Music’s avant-garde flourishes left with him. (more…)

Bob Marley & The Wailers made their British TV debut when they appeared on the Old Grey Whistle Test in May 1973. (more…)

Ahh, those happy days when a drummer could ‘play’ the drums with a pair of pool cues on Top of the Pops and get away with it. I seem to remember that on another occasion Dale Griffin used baguettes. (more…)

There was always a strong panto element to Glam – the dressing-up, the make-up, the gender-bending –  with style overtaking content. 

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David Bowie wrote this song when he was just 23 as a follow-up to his first hit Space Oddity, with Marc Bolan on guitar. (more…)

Just weeks after he famously “retired” Ziggy Stardust at a live show, David Bowie bounced back with a saxophone singing Sorrow, the first track from the covers album Pinups. (more…)

I had loved Mott The Hoople’s Bowie-assisted makeover with All The Young Dudes in 1972 and I loved their next album Mott, the best by a reinvigorated band. (more…)

Noddy Holder doesn’t look a day under 50 here. So it’s something of a surprise to find he was a young man of 27.

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The Sweet notched up their sixth Top Five hit when The Ballroom Blitz went to number two in September 1973. (more…)