Top Of The Box

Poly Styrene, whose real name was Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, has died aged 53 after losing her battle with cancer.  She is best known for fronting the original punk band, Xray Specs.

Xray specs – Gerrmfree Adolescence on Top Of The Pops from 1978.
Poly Styrene R.I.P

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Taken from the excellent album Broken English released by Marianne Faithfull in 1979, and also released as a single The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan became something of a cult classic.
Its use on the soundtrack of the movie Thelma & Louise only served to increase the songs cult status. Here is Marianne appearing on Top Of [...]

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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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