Leo Sayer had a chameleon-like career in his early days. He was a circus clown on his first hit "The Show Must Go On", a hobo on his third hit "Long Tall Glasses", and in between, on this one, he w...
This iconic song was the Rolling Stones' first US number one, and their fourth in the UK. The song's distinctive riff has since appeared in various other rock songs over the years.
Long John Baldry started his career as a blue-eyed soul singer, but he had his commercial breakthrough with this tearful ballad which sounds like it could have been the inspiration for Dr. Hook's s...
50 years ago, Simon and Garfunkel were sitting in a RAILWAY STATION (not sitting in a train station), and everybody knows that because this song has been played on the radio countless times since t...
Steve Miller's classic song was first released in October 1973 and it was a smash hit in the USA, but it did nothing in the UK at first. However, in 1990 it was used in a TV commercial and that sti...
Marmalade were one of those bands who were successful with singles but got nowhere with albums. Their run of 11 Top 40 singles spanned the 1960s and 70s. This wonderfully catchy, jaunty little ditt...
It seems hard to believe that such a legendary, influential band as The Who failed to score a number one single in the UK. The anthemic "My Generation", which became the title track of their debut ...
