1972
Lynsey De Paul became only the first woman to write her own number one song when she sang her way into our hearts with Sugar Me.
Another classic, and another of those songs that lifts my spirits the moment I hear Mick Ralphs’s guitar riff.
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.
Eric Clapton returned to the chart with his new group Derek & The Domonos after the success of Cream and the short-lived Blind Faith.
Silver Machine was one of the oddest, and best, one-hit wonders of all time, the most notable contribution of Lemmy to Hawkwind before he formed Motorhead.
A landmark in music history, Popcorn was the first electronic hit single – and, arguably, a forerunner of disco and synth-pop. I first heard it when it was a novelty hit for Hot Butter in 1972.
Alice Cooper’s exhortation to carry out every kid’s dream and blow school to pieces helped take School’s Out to No.1 in the summer holidays of 1972.
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…)
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