1973
The Jean Genie was still in the top ten when The Sweet came along with exactly the same second-hand riff and outdid Bowie by going all the way to number one with Block Buster!
Bowie’s third single of 1972 offered a tantalising first taste of his next album Aladdin Sane, the follow-up to his breakthrough Ziggy Stardust. Unforgivably, it was kept off the top of the January chart the following year by Little Jimmy bloody Osmond.
Onward to 1973 and the year began the way all good years began in the early Seventies – with another T. Rex hit.
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I’d had this catchy song lodged in my memory for about 40 years without remembering who or what it was until one day it popped up on a reggae compilation I’dbought. (more…)
Harmony greats The Heptones helped put Coxsone Dodd’s legendary Studio One on the map as the home of Jamaican rocksteady and reggae. (more…)
I’m guessing this is one of the least representative songs in the Steely Dan canon but it’s the first one I heard, back in 1972.
David Bowie – Five Years (The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars)
16th June 1972 · 1970s, 1973, Glam, MusicDavid Bowie made his breakthrough in 1972. Routinely rated as one of the best albums of all time, Ziggy was Bowie’s fifth album – but his first to get into the charts.