UK TOP 40 14-20 OCTOBER 1973

David Cassidy, Rod Stewart, Wizzard, Nazareth, Barry Blue and more.

In The 1970s Barry Blue

Now there is no doubt he was a good looking guy in the 1970s. But Barry Blue was much more than just a pretty face too. He was born as Barry Ian Green in London in 1950, and as a teenager was working for Tim Rice. He also worked in the mid 160s for the heavy metal group Uriah Heap.

He also wrote and produced for Mott The Hoople and Heatwave.

Barry was also a song writer and he wrote the Lynsey De Paul hit Sugar Me. Lynsey died in 2014.

Barry was signed up to Bell records in 1973 and had his first hit with Dancing On A Saturday Night which filled the disco floors in 1973 school discos.  A No. 2 UK hit.

  

In the same year Barry came back with  No. 7 hit with Do You Wanna Dance, which although it did not chart as high as his previous single many believed to be a better song.

The Vintage Glam Rock 1970s Hits

Welcome to my vintage UK Glam rock hits programme. Glam rock was a style of rock that developed in the U.K. in the early 1970s and performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter. The flamboyant clothing and visual styles of performers were often camp or androgynous, and have been described as playing with non-traditional gender roles. The UK charts were inundated with glam rock acts from 1971 to 1975, with glam also manifesting in all areas of British popular culture during this period. The March 1971 appearance of T. Rex front-man Marc Bolan on the BBC's music show Top Of The Pops, wearing glitter and satins, is often cited as the beginning of the movement. I've included a couple of tracks by Gary Glitter. Despite having been convicted and imprisoned, he cannot simply be airbrushed out of glam rock hence their inclusion. Enjoy three hours of 55 fantastic glam rock songs which is loud and proud from the offset. Cozy Powell, Barry Blue, Sweet, Gary Glitter, Mud

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PLAYING TRACKS BY Barry Blue, Mott The Hoople, Showaddywaddy, Slade, Suzi Quatro and more.

Suzie Quatro looks at RAK RECORDS PT 2