Okay. Here’s the thing. For 1976 it was either this ELO classic or Dancing Queen (yes, ABBA). Now, as big as ABBA was, and as long as they’ve lasted, I couldn’t, in all good conscience, choose an ABBA song on my soundtrack. It’s just not...
I know, I know. This is a cliche. But hear me out. I came to know Queen properly about a decade after Bohemian Rhapsody was released. Maybe a bit more. They were, are, brilliant and ended up being one of a small pocket of groups I came close to obsessing about (in a...
In a year when four Wombles tunes made the UK top 100 we’re going for something a little different. Actually, a LOT different. Technically more of an album than a song and, my research tells me, released in 1973 rather than ’74, we’re still putting...
I could have gone for another Elton John song (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road) but that just doesn’t seem right. So we’ll go for this classic instead: Live & Let Die by McCartney’s Wings. If we’re honest, my first memory of this is from the...
Here’s a nice safe start. My 1972 soundtrack song, and the first on my 40 year playlist, is Rocket Man by Elton John. Obviously, as a zero year old in 1972 I didn’t actually hear this song when it first came out. My Dad was a bit of an Elton John fan (to...
