Top Of The Box

It is almost forty years since the release of the single Maggie May, the song that would change Rod Stewart’s life forever and catapult the gravelly voiced blues singer into the contemporary music arena.
A true pop classic in every sense of the word the double A sided single Maggie May/Reason To Believe became the fist [...]

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I haven’t heard this song for ages, still sounds ok though. This was taken from Rod Stewart’s solo album Never A Dull Moment released in 1972, his follow up to the breakthrough album Every Picture Tells A Story.
Angel was written by Jimi Hendrix and appeared on the posthumous LP The Cry of Love released in [...]

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One of the true classic pop songs from the seventies Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) was surprisingly the first and only number one for Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel in 1975. Taken from the equally good album Best Years Of Our Lives.
Here they perform the hit on the UK tv show Top [...]

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This is a classic clip from Top of the Pops, James Taylor performing the Carole King song Youv’e Got A Friend in 1971. Carole King is playing piano on this live version of a wonderful song.
James Taylor – Youv’e Got A Friend

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War Baby from 1983 represented a tighter and more smoothly produced Tom Robinson product than his earlier and perhaps more popular period of the late seventies.
Although often overlooked, the more mature lyrics and style make this a real classic from the eighties.
Tom Robinson – War Baby

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