This song is my guiltiest secret. It’s so sentimental and cheesy yet so perfect, with a mood to match its title and a melody to match its lyric – a perfectly constructed coming-of-age story. (more…)

Suzi Quatro was Glam’s very own badass,  a rock chick version of Emma Peel from The Avengers, with the same taste in black leather catsuits. (more…)

Jim Croce’s aptly timeless Time In A Bottle soared to the top of the US charts after his death in 1973. (more…)

The hits kept coming for Slade and Skweeze Me Pleeze Me was as great as any of them. It gave them their fifth chart topper, making them the undisputed kings of Glam. (more…)

Here’s a tune that takes me straight back to the summer of 1973: one of two top ten hits – You Can Do Magic and Walking Miracle – for Limmie & The Family Cookin’. (more…)

Schoolteacher Clifford T. Ward made an unusual addition to the parade of Glam rockers on Top of the Pops with his sensitive piano ballad Gaye. (more…)

This was far from being Elton John’s best single. But it would spark a superior cover version by The Who nearly 20 years later. (more…)

Gordon Lightfoot’s timeless tune If You Could Read My MInd unwittingly provided the template for Whitney Houston’s hit The Greatest Love Of All. (more…)

When I first heard this song in 1973, I thought it was the strangest and most compelling piece of music I had ever heard. It still thrills. (more…)

Paul Simon teamed up with some of the greats of soul and Dixieland jazz for this exuberant tribute to New Orleans, Take Me To The Mardi Gras. (more…)