Music
Lindisfarne achieved a belated breakthrough with this catchy slice of whimsical folk-rock, displaying their strong Geordie roots and showasing the songwriting talent of Alan Hull. (more…)
Paul Simon took a new direction for his second solo album, travelling to Jamaica to record Mother And Child Reunion with some of Kingston’s top reggae musicians. (more…)
Don McLean’s eight-and-a-half-minute epic about the death of Buddy Holly – “the day the music died” – was inescapable in 1972 and has gone on to become a standard. (more…)
Chicory Tip claimed the first UK No.1 to prominently feature a synthesiser when future football anthem Son Of My Father topped the charts in February 1972. (more…)
T. Rex began 1972 the way they signed off from 1971 – with a chart-topping single. Telegram Sam was their third No.1 and confirmed Marc Bolan as the biggest star of the post-Beatles music universe. (more…)
No one ever captured the pain, the agony and the hopelessness of addiction as accurately, or as sensitively, as Neil Young in this song from his landmark album Harvest, released in early 1972. (more…)