Music
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…)
Just when we thought we had reached the end of the Osmonds with ‘Little’ Jimmy, along came the ghastly realisation that we had only exhausted the male line. (more…)
This was the third of Ringo’s run of post-Beatles hits and the last of his I’ll be posting, because the next one (You’re Sixteen) would probably get us both arrested, and the last one (Only You) is rubbish. So here it is. (more…)
There was always a strong panto element to Glam – the dressing-up, the make-up, the gender-bending – with style overtaking content.
Alvin Stardust looked like a superannuated Teddy Boy who got trapped in time during the Elvis 1968 Comeback Special.
I don’t think I’d ever heard The Stooges before but back In 1973 at school there was a copy of Raw Power floating around. (more…)
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…)
In November 1973 The Carpenters had another hit with Top Of The World. I didn’t like it at the time. But two decades later it spawned a rather wonderful Japanese cover version. (more…)
Caroline is so simple a song that you might think it could have been written on a paper napkin. And it was. (more…)