Eats, Drinks & Leaves

Dr Hook & The Medicine Show – Sylvia’s Mother

29th July 1972 · 1970s, 1972, Music

Dr Hook & The Medicine Show had their first hit with one of the great break-up songs in Sylvia’s Mother, which reached No.2 in the summer of ’72. (more…)

David Bowie – Starman

29th July 1972 · 1970s, 1972, Glam, Music

David Bowie’s unforgettable performance of Starman was a landmark moment in pop culture and launched him to superstar status. Top of the Pops, 6 July 1972. The day the world changed for ever. For me and, I’m certain, an entire generation of young men and women, girls and boys.

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Gary Glitter – Rock And Roll (Part 2)

8th July 1972 · 1970s, 1972, Glam, Music

Gary Glitter brought panto-style parody into Glam and this was the song that launched a career that would come to epitomise a meteoric rise and catastrophic fall. (more…)

Donny Osmond – Puppy Love

8th July 1972 · 1970s, 1972, Music

Donny Osmond became the biggest pop idol for schoolgirls everywhere when he topped the charts with Puppy Love in the summer of 1972. (more…)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – From The Beginning (Trilogy)

6th July 1972 · 1970s, 1972, Music

Emerson, Lake & Palmer were unfathomably popular among my fellow pupils at school, along with their fellow prog travellers Yes, Genesis and King Crimson.

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Slade – Take Me Bak Ome

1st July 1972 · 1970s, 1972, Glam, Music

There was something about Slade, Sweet and T. Rex singles that sets them apart – they seemed to be recorded at twice the volume as any other record. (more…)

The Move – California Man

17th June 1972 · 1970s, 1972, Music

California Man was the last hit for The Move and effectively the first for the Electric Light Orchestra in all but name when they appeared on TOTP in April 1972.

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David Bowie – Five Years (The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars)

16th June 1972 · 1970s, 1973, Glam, Music

David Bowie made his breakthrough in 1972. Routinely rated as one of the best albums of all time, Ziggy was Bowie’s fifth album – but his first to get into the charts.

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Roxy Music – Re-Make/Re-Model (Roxy Music)

16th June 1972 · 1970s, 1972, Glam, Music

Roxy Music’s debut album was not a huge success. It was way too ahead of its time. Almost half a century later it sounds strange and futuristic and experimental. For me it’s one of the greatest debuts ever. (more…)

Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now

7th June 1972 · 1970s, 1972, Music, Uncategorised

Johnny Nash was a rare non-Jamaican reggae star and had a string of hits as well as playing a key role in the career of Bob Marley & The Wailers.

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