This was the first of more than a dozen hit singles for 10cc – the only band to have three number ones with the same line-up but three different lead singers.
If you were setting out deliberately to make a novelty hit record, you might well come up with this irritating instrumental which topped the charts for four weeks in 1972. (more…)
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…)
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