UK Glam Rock Hit Singles. Pick your favourites.

Did Alvin get that dog across the road safely in his other role?

 

And that isn't a bad record collection, even a bit of Max in there!

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

As was said in The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, Oh no, not again!

 

Gee Baby was his finest hour.

 

I know people will laugh and throw stones, but the Osmonds' Crazy Horses and The Plan albums were really good!

Not really Glam though, I suppose.

 

Actually I kind of consider Crazy Horses to be Glam, it was right at that time and a great single to boot...

 

Bowie has so many albums in that chart. He really took off very quickly after Ziggy.

 

Possibly. Maybe Going Home too.

Not The Proud One, which I know you love.

 

Yeah, when he blew up, he really blew up.

 

Yes, I thought of Crazy Horses as glam, but I think I have a wider acceptance of artists as glam than others. I bought that single, I think it was the synthesizer that drew me in.

 

About Kenny - there's a best of CD I've got that includes the single by the 'other' Kenny, pre-The Bump, for completest's sake. I think it's a German one on Repertoire.

As for the Sweet, I love bubblegum Sweet and I love heavier Sweet. I do think they work best though as the classic four-piece. Their-pre Andy Scott singles are nothing special and I rapidly lose interest in the post-Brian albums. They were still making cracking records on RCA that weren't hits in 1976 and 1977. I love the Give Us A Wink and Off The Record albums. The first Polydor one, Level Headed, with Love Is Like Oxygen on it is very strong too.

I DJed and organised a tribute night to Marc Bolan about a decade ago in a small pub in London. Much to everyone's amazement Rolan Bolan turned up and was a really nice guy and made a little speech. That made my night.

 

There's no Elton in this list - what about Yellow Brick Road or Crocodile Rock?

 

That's a nice story. Yay, Rolan.

 

He missed the cut. I should have included him as I'm a big fan.

 

What about the groups that never made it like Buster and Flintlock?!

 

He had the look.

 

And that was taken 3 weeks ago.

 

I was probably playing Crazy Horses with my band the night I should have seen Roy Wood! Great song!

I've got the Utah Saints' CD mix of it, my favourite bit going somewhere along the lines of, "ladies and gentlemen, the greatest rock band in the world, The Osmonds!" It has also got the Osmonds' original single mix on it.

 

Only got 22 of those now. I did have 'Pat Garrett...', 'Close To You', 'Razamanaz' and 'Now And Then' on cassette, but they got chewed up and died yonks back. Interestingly, at least 18 of the 22 I have on vinyl, I've also re-bought a few times on cd. It's those 'extras' that get me every damn time.
(Proud to say I never owned a Max Bygraves or Osmands LP. Dignity in all things...)

 

I resent you lumping the Osmonds in with Max.

 

I think I've been really unfair to the dog, it's a lovely dog and impeccably behaved. Peter's behaviour on the other hand......

 

Didn't think that you would be happy about that!

 

Flintlock were pretty woeful! I say that as quite a big fan of the Tomorrow People. I've also got the DVD of the Pauline's Quirkes TV series that has more Flintlock in it than I can take. It's odd despite all that regular TV exposure and hype they only managed one 'hit' at number 30, but they were pretty poor records. I quite like the one that goes 'doo-WAH!' but I couldn't tell you what it was called.

 

I can only remember one record. Was it called Dawn? Yes, Flintlock, mainly Mike Holloway, used to help out in skits on Pauline's Quirkes.