I'm outnumbered 5 to 1, so I listen to podcasts all day.
Scott Mills sacked from BBC Radio 2 over 'personal conduct' - BBC News
I hear he played Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood 🤣
Just don't be a grump about it. Have a sweepstake over how many times Wonderwall can be played in a day week.
That’s easy - once.
Bill Drummond suggests taking the top 10 on your 13th Birthday as a start point
That would be 1967 - some fairly decent stuff around then; two years later I discovered King Crimson, everything changed after that.
Not the original version or lineup, but the lineup I finally got to see at the Royal Albert Hall in 2019, 50 years later.
It’s still an extraordinary piece of music to me.
- Metal Guru - T. Rex
- A Beggar's Opera - The New Seekers
- Amazing Grace - The Pipes and Drums and Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon
Guards - Rock and Roll (Parts 1 & 2) - Gary Glitter
- Without You - Nilsson
- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) - The New Seekers
- Vincent - Don McLean
- Mother of Mine - Neil Reid
- Sugar Me - Lynsey de Paul
- Could It Be Forever - David Cassidy
Dear God - no wonder my childhood was traumatic.
top ten when I was 13
BILLY - DON'T BE A HERO
PAPER LACE
Number 2
JEALOUS MIND
Alvin Stardust
Number 3
THE AIR THAT I BREATHE
THE HOLLIES
Number 4
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL
CHARLIE RICH
Number 5
YOU'RE SIXTEEN
RINGO STARR
Number 6
DEVIL GATE DRIVE
SUZI QUATRO
Number 7
REMEMBER (SHA-LA-LA-LA)
BAY CITY ROLLERS
Number 8
JET
PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS
Number 9
IT'S YOU
FREDDIE STARR
Number 10
WOMBLING SONG
WOMBLES
TJ is clearly 13 years older than me cos this...
BILLY - DON'T BE A HERO
PAPER LACE
...was Number 1 the day I was born.
Interesting, I just looked mine up, and 8 of the 10 I couldn't pick out of a police line up.
I know that was a figure of speech, but Gary Glitter was in my list ....
Wouldn’t wanna be in your gang
