Some of the number 1's from this year included

 

Mud - Tiger Feet, Suzi Quatro - Devil's Gate Drive, Paperlace - Billy don't be a hero, Abba - Waterloo, Rubettes - Sugar baby love, George Macrae - Rock your baby, Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting , Mud - Lonely this xmas.

 

Other hits in this year included -

 

Bachman Turner Overdrive - You ain't seen nothing yet, David Bowie - Rebel Rebel, Hollies - Air that I breathe, Wings - Band on the run, Queen - Killer Queen, Rolling Stones - It's only rock n roll, Showaddywaddy - Hey rock and roll, Slade - Far far away, Sparks - This town ain't big enough for both of us, Alvin Stardust - Jealous Mind, R Dean Taylor - There's a ghost in my house, Stevie Wonder - He's misstra know it all, Hello - Tell him, Splinter - Costafinetown, Ronnie Lane - The Poacher, Ace - How long

 

New bands formed this year included - Ramones, Stranglers, Japan, Talking Heads, Van Halen, Blondie, Squeeze

 

 

Some of the worse acts of the year were - Wombles, Bay City Rollers, Lena Zavaronni, John Denver, any act from Philadelphia :puke2: :puke2:

Edited October 10, 200717 yr by brian91

Some of the worse acts of the year were - Wombles, Bay City Rollers, Lena Zavaronni, John Denver, any act from Philadelphia :puke2: :puke2:

 

lol..i couldnt agree with you more...... philly :puke2:

 

awful and instantly forgettable year... i liked 'the poacher', and gordon lightfoot 'sundown'. but thats about it.

I love Slade-Far Far Away I had that on repeat for about 5 months straight.:o

 

I love Slade-Far Far Away I had that on repeat for about 5 months straight.:o

 

in truth it was a good track... i didnt like it then but i was prejudice against slade.. silly but hey ho.

Best ones from the list Wings band on the run and david Bowie 's rebel rebel

I loved ELO's Ma Ma Belle , Mud's Rocket & The Cat Crept In.

Beach Baby by First Class , Lobo's Id love you to want me .

There's a few fun ones there and 1974 was the year that Queen had their first hit with Seven Seas Of Rhye :D It was also the year of Ray Stevens doing The Streak :lol:

Arguably the worst year in modern music history of the last 45 years....

 

Looking at some of the rubbish songs I've included (1974 ROTY) I might yet change my mind but one great song that was a fairly big hit in the USA, that did nothing in the UK that I love is:

 

Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me

 

 

Arguably the worst year in modern music history of the last 45 years....

 

Looking at some of the rubbish songs I've included (1974 ROTY) I might yet change my mind but one great song that was a fairly big hit in the USA, that did nothing in the UK that I love is:

 

Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me

 

 

Never heard that one by him, although I loved his song " I saw the light"

 

1974 was the year that I really got into music and the charts. I'd received a little transistor radio for Christmas and began to take it into junior school on a Tuesday to listen to the chart countdown. I also bought Record Mirror for the first time that April though I didn't begin to buy it regularly until summer 1975. I also started to buy Words and Disco 45 every month!

 

I'm sure I probably took notice of the charts in 1973 but the first record I can recall actually hearing being announced as #1 was You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me by the New Seekers, simply because I had a radio on which to hear the charts. I also started buying singles in 1974, prior to 1974 I owned no records. My first two singles were birthday presents - Tiger Feet and Devil Gate Drive and the next day I bought Jealous Mind with my some of my birthday money. I think I had about 10 singles by the end of the year - 5 years later I owned well over a thousand singles and by the time I sold my collection in 1987 (I needed the money...) I owned about 4,500 singles!