Top Of The Box

This a good ‘live’ version of a great track. Sheer Heart Attack is not from the 1974 Queen album of that name, but from the later 1977 album News Of The World.
Sheer Heart Attack is written by drummer Roger Taylor and is a favourite of mine from that era, pre Live Aid, when Queen were a very [...]

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This is from 1997, a couple of years before Travis really hit it big. They look like kids in this corny video.
I remember Jo Whiley used to play it to death on Radio One, but it didn’t get played much by anyone else at the time.
Travis – All I Wanna Do Is Rock

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This is an excellent version of the Bob Dylan track This Wheels On Fire, perhaps best known these days as the theme tune to Jennifer Saunders comedy Absolutely Fabulous.
It was a hit for Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity in 1968.
Julie Driscoll & The Brian Auger Trinity – This Wheels On Fire

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This single from 1980 was exceptional, it really is a shame that the band chose to go down the more commercial route by covering old hits.
It was such a promising start.
UB40 – Food For Thought

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Simon & Garfunkel had hit after hit in the sixties, creating beautiful harmonies and incredible songs, moving folk into main stream during the middle of the decade.
Despite the geeky look Simon & Garfunkel were both inspiring and influential to later sixties singer songwriter boom.
Homeward Bound was famously written at Widnes station in the UK, by [...]

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