100 Hits: 70s

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In which we learned Iggy Pop was “ a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm“. To be honest, we had a hunch. The Bowie-sponsored Stooges were on a hiding to nothing as far as cold hard cash was concerned but with sweaty, steely rawk like ‘Search And Destroy’ they would reveal their hand as dodgy uncles of punk. Dolly Parton’s signature smash actually limped to a mere No.60 in the States but it endures as an oddly jaunty plea to the titular stunner to leave Dolly’s man alone, even though she could take him any time she likes. There’s no artifice here – which is Parton’s main strength. However brassy and unreal she can be, she’s never less than pure-hearted. Later covered by the White Stripes.

Rice, Jo; Rice, Tim; Gambaccini, Paul; Read, Mike (1980). "Top 100 Singles of the Decade". The Guinness Book of Hits of the 70's. Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp.238–39. ISBN 0-85112-217-5. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (Saturday, April 21, 1973) The Clash always had a message to impart and what better than a bug-eyed apocalyptic warning? The “ nuclear error” at Three Mile Island in the States could happen here too and Joe Strummer wanted us to know, driving the point home with those choppy guitars and vulpine howls. Finishing with a radio signal, this is the World Service in a time of terror.Produced and written with legendary Memphis soul man Willie Mitchell, Al Green’s persuasive soul smoothie slinked to No.1 in the States – his only single to do so – and a dozen years later provided Tina Turner with her big return to the limelight. As with all Green’s tunes from a classic period, lazy horns offer the perfect bed for his keening falsetto, soaking the song with heat and lust. a b "Top 20 Singles of the Seventies". Music Week. London, England: United Business Media. 19 September 2009. ("1959–2009: Anniversary Special" supplement, p. 18.) The following artists were featured in top of the chart for the highest total number of weeks during the 1970s. Singles of the 70's". Music Week. London, England: Morgan-Grampian Publications: 18. 22 December 1979.

Producing an accurate list of the best-selling singles of the 1970s in the United Kingdom has therefore never been a simple task because of the difficulty in obtaining accurate sales data from the period. An official chart of the best-selling singles of the 1970s was produced by the BMRB and broadcast on the UK's national pop music radio station BBC Radio 1 on 31 December 1979. However, this chart is no longer considered accurate due to the method of data collection by the BMRB and has since been superseded. The 19 September 2009 issue of the UK music trade magazine Music Week included a special supplement to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It included updated charts of the top twenty best-selling singles of each decade of the magazine's existence, based on the most recent information available from the Official Charts Company (OCC). The following chart is therefore the most up to date estimate of the top twenty best-selling singles of the 1970s, with sales figures for the top ten up until the end of 1979 as estimated by the OCC. [3] [4]

In which Paul Weller declares holy class war through the medium of awesome Moddish new wave. As the 70s juddered to a close, the divisions in society were becoming more prominent, and The Jam’s fiery broadside tells a bitter tale of coming off worst after a brawl with some poshos, because indeed, “all that rugby puts hair on your chest.” David Cameron, missing the point, professed to love it. The following songs were featured in top of the chart for the highest total number of weeks during the 1970s. Of course there was no “ Nigel”. Instead, bassist Colin Moulding wrote of his dad attempting to make his son get his “ hair cut and stay on at school”. This theme of parental domination fits perfectly with the urgency of the music – part new wave muscle, part very British ska-ish funk workout. Beneath XTC’s wonky pop exterior lay one of the most experimental groups of the decade.