My Socials
“Dearly Beloved,
We are gathered here today,
To get through this thing called life”
Prince: “Let’s Go Crazy”
The Archive Of My Life
This is a journey
into sound
The Chart Archive
Chronological UK Singles & Albums Chart entries, complete with original label scans, chart histories, and audio/video
- 50-01: 16th – 22nd February 1975 | The Singles
The Playlist, from No.50 to No.1, the United Kingdom’s Official Single Chart results for the week commencing Sunday the 16th, to Saturday the 22nd of February 1975. Click on each single to dive deeper… - Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel – No.1 in the UK Singles Chart on My 3rd Birthday
“A track about defiance in the face of adversity, about how, no matter how hard everything seems, just hanging in there and keeping faith, no matter how far and fragile it seems, in the fact that somehow, someday, one day, things will get better again.” - Pilot – No.2 in the UK Singles Chart on My 3rd Birthday
“When I think of this band, the emotion and atmosphere which emanates is such a positive uplifting kick, it’s almost criminal they weren’t around for decades. Instead, they were like a huge blinding flash of lightning which, to me, seared the musical landscape…” - Carpenters – No.3 in the UK Singles Chart on My 3rd Birthday
“There is one other reason why I find this single so memorable, and that is due to me eventually falling more in love with the B side a lot more than the A side.” - Mac And Katie Kissoon – No.4 in the UK Singles Chart on My 3rd Birthday
“These sumptuous soul siblings are finally getting the recognition they deserve here in the UK with this single, after a couple of attempts over the last few years.” - Mud – No.5 in the UK Singles Chart on My 3rd Birthday
“With their tongues firmly in their cheeks, and some entertaining performances of the song being televised to the nation on Top of the Pops, looking even more shiny in satin, and with bigger collars than the King himself, the band are at the very pinnacle of their game…”
My Musical Road
My personal Journey through Sound & Vision
- John Lennon – No.43 in the UK Albums Chart on My 3rd Birthday
“If the older sibling of John’s previous album had been witnessing his tentativeness to take a chance and leap into the abyss beneath him he needn’t have worried, as his wife has made that decision for him and kicked him off the edge anyway, sending him clear over to the West Coast, along with all his emotional baggage which ends up crashing down on him as soon as he hits the ground.” - Yes – No.44 in the UK Albums Chart on My 3rd Birthday
“…for this new release, they have acquired the dexterous fingertips of the more jazzy Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz, which seems to please Jon especially as, after the elongated but also stifling confinement of his input in convoluting the last vast double album, he has been looking for something infinitely more free-form.” - The Moody Blues – No.45 in the UK Albums Chart on My 3rd Birthday
“This has been carefully and meticulously curated to create an event on your turntable that is set over four parts. Letting the listener completely immerse themselves into the sound of the Moodies in all their sophisticated stereophonic sonic glory.” - The Beatles – No.46 in the UK Albums Chart on My 3rd Birthday
“The feelings towards one another, the deep respect they all seemed to still have, and the hints that some members were teasing, and now beginning to say on record as it were, or were about to, there really was a possibility that these four men could quite possibly gravitate towards each other again at some point in the future.” - The Beatles – No.47 in the UK Albums Chart on My 3rd Birthday
“…just like everyone else that first experienced this LP, and for whatever reason they did so, over the years it too became part of my DNA…” - Status Quo – No.48 in the UK Albums Chart on My 3rd Birthday
“This year it seems to have been assisted by the fact that the boys had recently celebrated having their very first No.1 single “Down Down” back last month in January.”