Music
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…)
A bit of a retread of Maggie May, maybe – but none the worse for that. And all the better for gathering The Faces together again, even if it’s actually a solo Rod Stewart single. (more…)
The Electric Light Orchestra carried on where The Move left off – same personnel, same sound, with added ‘classical’ trimmings. Much more to my taste when Roy Wood was still there at the start.
Dr Hook & The Medicine Show had their first hit with one of the great break-up songs in Sylvia’s Mother, which reached No.2 in the summer of ’72. (more…)
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…)