1972
I’ve got to be honest: I don’t like this song much. It’s so sentimental, so sad and depressing, its melancholy mood reinforced by the church choir and brass band, and Skellern’s voice sounds as if it might crack at any minute. But it was there. It was an unavoidable part of life in 1972.
I always loved the sound of Carlos Santana’s fluid guitar with rattling Latin percussion and flowing Hammond organ runs.
Amazingly, this was The Sweet’s sixth straight hit single in 18 months when it reached No.4 in September 1972. But it was the first one they actually played on. (more…)
Lindisfarne’s third album flopped and the band broke up soon after. But the haunting title track Dingly Dell is my favourite of all their songs. (more…)
Lock up your daughters – it’s David Cassidy! He was the dangerous yin to Donny Osmond’s squeaky-clean yang – though both equall awful to a teenage boy like me. (more…)
Skiffle song Seaside Shuffle gave Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs a novelty hit and Jonah Lewie his first taste of the singles charts. (more…)
Big Youth was one of the earliest and most distinctive toasters. Here he is teaming up with Horace Andy on one of his earliest hits, The Killer. (more…)
T. Rex were going for their fifth number one with Children Of The Revolution but had to settle for their third No.2 instead. (more…)
The first appearance of Roxy Music on Top of the Pops was as huge a moment as the first sightings of Bowie and T. Rex and Alice Cooper had been.
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