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Paul McCartney might now be a national treasure, with John Lennon revered retrospectively as the edgy rebel of The Beatles, but back in the early Seventies it was Macca who upset the Establishment. (more…)
This is the song that made Elton a superstar. Sure, he’d had hits before – Your Song, Rocketman, Honky Cat – but this took him to another level and gave him his first US chart topper. (more…)
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.
Lynsey De Paul became only the first woman to write her own number one song when she sang her way into our hearts with Sugar Me.
Elton John burst back into the charts with his second single Rocket Man more than a year after Your Song had given him his first hit. (more…)
I remember buying this single (which I still have), probably because it was number one for what seemed like months in 1972, and because everyone else bought it.