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It was the year of Jaws, the Hustle, curly perms and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It boasted a ‘Funky Moped’ as well as a ‘Funky Gibbon’. The Beatles’ output, now quadrupled, continued to delight and sadden in equal measure (John Lennon, ‘#9 Dream’; Paul McCartney/Wings, ‘Letting Go’; George Harrison, ‘Dark Horse’; Ringo Starr, ‘It’s All Down to Goodnight Vienna’). The Eagles released One of These Nights, while Queen gave the world ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.

Pink Floyd, of course, served up Wish You Were Here.

Then, alas, there are those that, in our moment of reminiscence, must also be thrown into the equation, if not the Abyss of Shame and Continued Revulsion. I won’t name names, but I am thinking ‘Swedish four-piece, four letters’… (Sorry.)

Here’s some Bad Company to further convince those that need convincing – myself included – that 1975 wasn’t all insipid soft rock ballads and disco naffness.

Here are some of my favourite tunes from the year (perhaps this link will help you remember, and hopefully list, yours):

- Grand Funk Railroad, ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’
- KC & The Sunshine Band, ‘Get Down Tonight’
- Pointer Sisters, ‘How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)’
- Roxy Music, ‘Love Is the Drug’
- ZZ Top, ‘Tush’

All in all, a better musical year than 1966, you think? I’m not so sure that it was.

On this day in ‘79, this was the UK’s Number One single: Blondie, ‘Sunday Girl’ (the dancing from certain members of the audience is fantastic, you have to see it).

Here are some of my favourite chart-toppers from the Seventies.

Again, I’ve restricted myself to ten (which was easier to do than for the Sixties list, by the way), so let’s see what you’ve got. Any country, any chart – and don’t be embarrassed, they don’t have to be ‘the best’ songs, just your favourites.

Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ is a given, so there’s no need to include it.

If you also want to compile a list for the worst songs from the Seventies, go ahead, but please mention Abba and Dr Hook; it would be a dull list without them.

- America, ‘Horse with No Name’
- Kate Bush, ‘Wuthering Heights’
- Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, ‘Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)’
- George Harrison, ‘My Sweet Lord’
- Don McLean, ‘American Pie’
- Matthews Southern Comfort, ‘Woodstock’
- Rolling Stones, ‘Angie’
- Slade, ‘Coz I Luv You’
- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, ‘The Tears of a Clown’
- Wild Cherry, ‘Play That Funky Music’