When Brian Eno left after their second album, For Your Pleasure, most of Roxy Music’s avant-garde flourishes left with him. (more…)

This one dates back to my short-lived enthusiasm for heavy rock in 1973, a brief period that also introduced me to Nazareth. (more…)

I wasn’t ready for Berlin when it came out in 1973. I don’t think anyone was ready for something like this.
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Once upon a time The Eagles were an acoustic group singing country-folk harmonies. (more…)

Funny to think that when they came along in the summer of 1973, at first glance Queen seemed like the latest Glam group off the production line. I even bought their debut album. These days I never listen to them. (more…)

Bob Marley & The Wailers made their British TV debut when they appeared on the Old Grey Whistle Test in May 1973. (more…)

Ahh, those happy days when a drummer could ‘play’ the drums with a pair of pool cues on Top of the Pops and get away with it. I seem to remember that on another occasion Dale Griffin used baguettes. (more…)

Just when we thought we had reached the end of the Osmonds with ‘Little’ Jimmy, along came the ghastly realisation that we had only exhausted the male line. (more…)

This was the third of Ringo’s run of post-Beatles hits and the last of his I’ll be posting, because the next one (You’re Sixteen) would probably get us both arrested, and the last one (Only You) is rubbish. So here it is. (more…)

There was always a strong panto element to Glam – the dressing-up, the make-up, the gender-bending –  with style overtaking content. 

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