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1) Kate Bush – Man With The Child In His Eyes – 07-1978 2) Billy Joel – Just The Way You Are – 03-1978 3) The Electric Light Orchestra – Mr. Blue Sky 02-1978 4) Earth, Wind & Fire – Fantasy – 03-1978 5) The Patti Smith Group – Because The Night – 05-1978 6)Continue reading “1978 Top Thirteen”

1) The Eagles – Hotel California – 05-1977  2) The Emotions – Best Of My Love – 09-1977 3) The Rods – Do Anything You Wanna Do – 09-1977  4) The Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love – 11-1977 5) Heatwave – Boogie Nights – 02-1977  6) Andrew Gold – Lonely Boy –Continue reading “1977 Top Thirteen”

Hmmm. At this point I can’t decide if the large bias toward the rockier tracks is is more to do with my present-day tastes than 17-year-old me. But my criteria when ordering the top 13 involves putting myself back in my sixth form shoes and visualising which records I actually bought (or taped from theContinue reading “1976 Top Thirteen”

Some real big hitters this year, with Queen and 10CC, but the Glam Rockers are defo giving way and the epic Jive Talkin’ foreshadows the Bee Gees chart takeover a couple of years down the line. 1) Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody – 11-1975 2) Helen Reddy – Angie Baby – 02-1975 3) 10CC – I’mContinue reading “1975 Top Thirteen”

Finally, at fourteen, I was allowed to go to the Friday night disco in my friend’s village hall and it felt so-oo glamorous and exciting. Proper grown up with all the older kids, including my first proper boyfriend. Glam Rock was still around, but for me this was when the soul stuff I loved startedContinue reading “1974 Top Thirteen”