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my life was more defined by the number 4 hit I surrender by rainbow
https://youtu.be/pAtrVeXDKD4
As is often the case with these one offs, the release of the song was a total fluke. A record publisher just happened to be passing by when Dolce was playing the song and the rest is history - Dolce has made an entire career out of it, it's a mad, mad, mad, mad, world.
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BUT - it was bookended by "Spirit in the Sky" and Christie's "Yellow River" which are still two of my favourite songs and "Spirit" was a real go to when I played in a covers band. Other number ones that year were "Tears of a Clown" and Freda Payne's "Band of Gold", two more songs that have stuck with me through the years. And, the only Elvis song that we did was "The Wonder of You" which also happened to get to number one when I was 14.
So I think there might be something in this 14 years theory. Looking back it does seem as though I started to develop what you might call musical appreciation at that age, and it was the year I bought my first guitar. Though whether it actually defines your musical tastes is a bold claim.
There's good music everywhere if you choose to not ignore anything that achieves commercial success. And a lot of crap too... but that applies to every genre as well.
Not quite at 14, but 15 was actually the time when I *stopped* listening to mostly prog rock and metal and actually started paying attention to some of the great new music that was coming into the charts... 1982.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Actor most famous for playing shaven-headed New York cop Kojak speaks the words of Bread's song over a backing track of light orchestral pop.
This is absolute proof that by 1975 pop music was plumbing depths that were previously unimaginable.
And judging by the Top of the Pops reruns of 1990 on BBC4, even worse is yet to come.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Like having The Doolies in the 70s was waiting for punk to happen 1990 was waiting for grunge and Britpop.
But watching those Rick Beato things where he goes through the Spotify charts the current ones are painfully homogenous, like every 13 year old in the world listens to the same thing.
The following year a mate got the first Ramones LP as a US import - probably worth a fortune now - he told me to come round straight away and listen to it, put it on his stereo full wick, "Blitzkrieg Bop", guitar out of one speaker, bass out of the other. There is no way a young person today will ever experience a thrill like that.
So, Typically Tropical might still have been number one, but we knew salvation was on the way.
... said your grandad in 1970 .
Yes, I'll admit the same thought has occurred to me now that I'm of a similar age, but there's still as much of a range of good and crap as there was then I think. There was a *vast* amount of utter drivel in the 1960s too, that's been long since forgotten.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein