Music
Vincent Crane’s organ-led Atomic Rooster had the bigger of their two 1971 hit singles when The Devil’s Answer took them to number 4 in the chart. (more…)
Here’s another soft rock song that reminds me of long summer holidays that seemed to go on for ever: the first hit by the strangely named – and even more strangely coiffured – Lobo. (more…)
A Black Lives Matter anthem half a century before #BLM, this was a No.6 hit for Greyhound, but its history goes back farther than that. (more…)
The quintessential novelty hit and definition of a “song you love to hate”, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep earned Middle Of The Road their first number one in June 1971. (more…)
Tony Christie joined the trend for revenge songs, hunting down his wife’s murderer with I Did What I Did For Maria. (more…)
There are songs you hear so often that you never want to hear them again. And ones that still lift your spirits as soon as they start to play. This is one of those. (more…)