Every UK no1 1971

 

Dave Edmunds
Clive Dunn
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2012/11/in-1970s-clive-dunn.html
George Harrison
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2017/06/in-memory-george-harrison-in-1970s.html
Mungo Jerry
T.Rex
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2010/11/70s-music-artist-watch-trex.html
Dave And Ansil Collins
Dawn
Middle Of The Road
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2013/10/in-1970s-middle-of-road.html
Diana Ross
Tams
Rod Stewart
Slade
Benny Hill
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2015/08/in-memory-benny-hill.html

Every UK No1 in 1971
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MORE FROM 1971
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UK Top 50 For 30th January 1971

Welcome to a complete UK top 50 with added Radio One jingles for 30th January 1971. In the chart this week are Dorothy Squires, Edward Woodward, Gerry Monroe, Ken Dodd, Perry Como, Clive Dunn amongst others plus George Harrison, Kinks, Jackson 5, Neil Diamond, Frankie Valli, Frank Sinatra, Badfinger, and a whole host of other super songs

1970's JUKEBOX WITH STUART BUSBY - 28-10-2017

George Harrison, Boney M., Mike Oldfield, Hot Butter, Andy Kim

In Memory George Harrison in the 1970s

Ex-Beatle George Harrison entered the 1970s fresh from the split up of the group. George who was born in 1943 and had one album drift into the 1970 chart from 1969 called Electric Sound, but was by no means a top ranking album But he did have much more success with the critically acclaimed All Things Must Pass which had a single that went right through to No. 1. My Sweet Lord.

This beautiful single became the biggest selling single of 1971 and was a song all about the Indian God Krishna that had inspired George since the mid-1960s. Amazingly it was not religion that got this song into trouble, but it was because of an assumed breach of copyright with a 1962 single from The Chiffons He’s So Fine. Phil Spector was the producer, and somewhere amongst the sounds are Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr.

The legal arguments lasted over ten years and ended in money going backward and forward. In the end George Harrison purchased the copyright. The case was an expensive one, but George said the hit was NOT inspired by the Chiffons, but Oh Happy Day by the Edwin Hawkins Singers. No copyright issues there as it went back to the 1800s.

Other single hits in the 1970s included the 1973 song from the album Living In The Material Word called Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) which was No.1 hit in the U.S. (No. 10 UK). Harrison said in his autobiography.

“This song is a prayer and personal statement between me, the Lord, and whoever likes it.”
The previous year whilst working with the group Badfinger in 1971 George got a call for a charity concert in Bangladesh, and immediately performed in two shows at Madison Square with his hero Ravi Shankar.

In 1974 George split from his wife Patty Boyd who was also married to George’s friend Eric Clapton. George also produced the anti-Paul McCartney song Back Off Boogaloo by Ringo Starr, and also Ringo’s other hit Photograph. He also financed the Monty Python team to continue making films through one of his companies called Handmade films.

George Harrison died in 2001 from throat cancer. George produced five UK album top twenty hits in the 1970s. He is now with that Sweet Lord.

70s Artist Watch:The Beatles

The Beatles split up in 1970, after making the world a richer place, and making tunes that never die, but the legal ramifications took years before The Beatles were legally split in 1975, but they were still part of 70s music.

 So music of the 70s had all the Beatles members, who had solo projects in the 1970s, Paul McCartney had his Wings, John Lennon had “Imagine”, Ringo Starr had his “Photograph”, and George Harrison had “My Sweet Lord” More on the individual members influence in the 70s in later articles.

The last Beatles album "Let it be" in 1970, included the tracks "Get back" a hit again in the 1970s and the "Long and winding road"  the next  album was The Beatles 1962-1966.

Here is a hit single from 1970 "The Beatles" and "Let It Be". Paul McCartney was inspired to write the song, whilst reflecting on the death of his mother when he was aged just fourteen.

In The1970s Music Layla

The  70s music No.1 best selling single of 1970 in the UK was the amazing "Layla" by  Derek and the Dominos featuring of course the legendary Eric Clapton on the magical guitar.

The song  came from the album "Layla and  other assorted love songs"  released in late 1970.The song involves  ex Beatle George Harrison (Died 2001) , who was married to Patti Boyd in 1966 whilst making the Beatles film "A Hard Days Night", Eric was falling in love with Patti too.

Patti was born in  England in 1944, and first came to the public eye as a model in the 1960s and married George in 1966. Patti's sister went out with Eric, but left him when she realised "Layla" was all about her sister and not her.

The title "Layla" refers to a 12th  century story about a Persian poet Nizami  Ganjavi who lived 1141 to 1209,and was based on a short story called "Layla and Majnun". The other major guitarist on the single was Duane Allman from the US, who died the very next year 1971 after a motorbike crash, the bass guitarist Carl Radle died in 1980 from Kidney failure due to excess drinking.

Jim Gordon another musician murdered his mum in the 1980s.

 

70s music maestro Eric  Clapton  actually married Patti in 1979, but ten years later they were divorced for many reasons including drink problems and the fact he had other ladies in his life, and at least one child too.

Lyrics to "Layla"

Eric also wrote another 70s music classic in 1976 called "Wonderful Tonight" for Patti.