Top Of The Box

Kinks - Lola, Top Of The Pops, 1970
I’m not much of a fan of The Kinks sixties hits like You Really Got Me and even Waterloo Sunset.  But I love their 1970 classic, Lola.  The lyrics are great, but the sound of Ray Davies’ resonator guitar is beautiful.
The song is about a young man’s sexual [...]

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Let Me Roll It is from the Wings album Band On The Run originally released in 1973. It was released as a ‘B’ Side to the much inferior Jet in 1974.
Wings perform the song live here from 1975.
Wings - Let Me Roll It

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Kirsty MacColl - New England, Promo video
Every time I hear a Kirsty MacColl song it reminds me of how much I loved her voice and what a tragedy it was that her life was taken in such a tragic accident.
This is one of my favourite Kirtsy MacColl tracks, a great version Of Billy Bragg’s New [...]

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Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go!
In 1980 Adam Ant, looking to turn cult success into commercial adoration, thought it would be a good idea to get ex-Sex Pistols and New York Dolls manager, Malcolm McLaren to manage Adam & The Ants. Unfortunately, one of the first things he did was to sack [...]

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Chris Martin and Coldplay have achieved global success with their easy listening rock pop songs, but in some quarters have received undue criticism and negative reviews, possibly due to their popularity, rather than their commercial sound.
But Coldplay and Chris Martin in particular have used their voice to champion many good causes such as Make Poverty [...]

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