There was so much more to Bunny Wailer than being a founding member of the band that bears his name. (more…)

Here’s another funky slice of disco from the vaults by the splendidly named Juggy Murray Jones. It sneaked into the Top 40 and was a dancefloor staple across Britain in 1976. (more…)

Here’s another stone cold disco classic from 1975, written and produced by the legendary Sylvia Robinson. (more…)

Now this is a CHOON! I’d say it’s a banger but that word was limited to small noisy fireworks back in 1976. And this is bigger and noisier than that. (more…)

My main memory of this group is thinking they were the same people responsible for the dismal dirge If You Leave Me Now. But they weren’t. (more…)

I’m not sure what happened to Chicago in the first half of the Seventies. They got slower, and more middle-of-the-road and, as they lost sight of their roots, increasingly popular. (more…)

The first time I ever saw Joan Armatrading was this spellbinding performance on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1976. (more…)

I’m not the world’s biggest fan but there are at least a handful of essential Elton John songs lurking amid his vast catalogue, Including this rarity from the archives. (more…)

I know I shouldn’t but I love this cheesy country music pastiche by Pussycat – perhaps the only country-and-western chart topper by a Dutch group.

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We’ve all got a least favourite musical instrument haven’t we? Mine may be the flute, though the twittering of the piccolo might win if it were not such a rarity. Then there’s the universal horror of the pan pipes. (more…)