Fleetwood Mac 1969 – Man Of The World
The memory is not of a stadium, nor even a smoky, post-gig London club. It is a quiet Sunday afternoon,…
Oldies Songs
The Windmills of Your Mind 1969 – Noel Harrison
The first time I heard the song, I was in a room bathed in the blue-grey glow of a late…
Del Shannon 1962 – Little Town Flirt
The studio air in the early sixties was thick with change, an anxious hum beneath the bright sheen of pop.…
Cilla Black 1964 – You’re My World
It’s an image burned into the collective memory of British pop: a tiny, fiercely coiffed Liverpudlian with a voice that…
The Ivy League – Funny How Love Can Be
There is a moment in the history of British pop—a flashpoint in the mid-sixties—when the raw, driving energy of the…
The Scaffold 1968 – Lily The Pink
I remember the first time I heard it. It wasn’t on a crackling transistor radio in 1968, nor was it…
Benny Hill 1970 – Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)
The year is 1971. The airwaves are thick with the scent of patchouli and the shimmer of lurex. Glam Rock…
John Fred & His Playboy Band 1967 – Judy In Disguise
The year is 1967. London is aflame with paisley and incense, San Francisco is vibrating with counterculture, and The Beatles…
The Four Seasons 1965 – Let’s Hang On
The year 1965 should have been a time of reckoning, a slow, painful slide toward irrelevance for The Four Seasons.…
Desmond Dekker & The Aces 1968 – Israelites
It’s late, maybe 3 a.m., the kind of silence-after-the-storm quiet that settles over a sleeping city. The air in my…