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…)

Middle-of-the-road cabaret duo Peters & Lee interrupted the all-conquering march of Glam with their sentimental singalong Welcome Home. (more…)

T. Rex shone brightly for two and a half years and had a good run in the charts but this would turn out to be the last Top Ten hit for the prettiest star of Glam. (more…)

The BBC, so fond of banning songs in this Whitehouse era, didn’t actually ban or censor Rubber Bullets despite believing it to be about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. (more…)

Stealers Wheel were a Scottish duo whose 1973 hit will forever be associated with that terrifying torture scene in Reservoir Dogs. (more…)

I’m not sure when my flirtation with heavy rock kicked in, nor why I was briefly a fan of Nazareth, but I do know when that was. It was 1973. (more…)