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…)

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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…)

Here’s an all-star double-bill – Horace Andy singing and Tapper Zukie toasting and a nice laid-back dub as a bonus. (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…)

T. Rex were going for their fifth number one with Children Of The Revolution but had to settle for their third No.2 instead. (more…)