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This is the song that made Elton a superstar. Sure, he’d had hits before – Your Song, Rocketman, Honky Cat – but this took him to another level and gave him his first US chart topper. (more…)

It’s embarrassing to admit I discovered Chuck Berry through this dismal double entendre-strewn novelty song. And dreadful that something so execrable gave Chuck – one of the most influential musicians of all time and the man who invented rock’n’roll almost single-handedly – his only number one record.
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Alice Cooper’s second big hit seems like the perfect soundtrack for what was about to happen in the USA in November 2020. (more…)

Rod Stewart never sang better than this. And he never had a better song to sing than this one – In A Broken Dream. (more…)

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If you were setting out deliberately to make a novelty hit record, you might well come up with this irritating instrumental which topped the charts for four weeks in 1972. (more…)