www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week10/nation...urite-70s-number-one

Somehow I suspect that none of Mr Gadd's three number ones will be featured - and with recent announcements, even Mr Webb's only number one of that decade may end up being conspicuous by its absence. Who else will be absent - the Bay City Rollers perhaps.

In the end it's no longer the nation's favourite 70s number one, it has become the favourite number one by artists which have not so far been branded perverts.

Andy wrote:

In the end it's no longer the nation's favourite 70s number one, it has become the favourite number one by artists which have not so far been branded perverts.

...by people who vote for these things, which are predominantly people who weren't alive in the 1970s. (But let's be honest, none of Glitter's singles deserve to be high up in any list anyway.)

Since this is on itv, the chart will most likely consist of queen, Abba, and disco singles, rather than bowie, bolan, and mungo jerry. Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep should be up there.

Nothing against Middle of the Road except, perhaps, that Soley Soley should have been No1.

robbiex wrote:
Since this is on itv, the chart will most likely consist of queen, Abba, and disco singles, rather than bowie, bolan, and mungo jerry. Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep should be up there.

I doubt there be no ELP, Black Sabbath, Lindisfarne, Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens and Clifford T Ward.

Pru wrote:
Andy wrote:

In the end it's no longer the nation's favourite 70s number one, it has become the favourite number one by artists which have not so far been branded perverts.

...by people who vote for these things, which are predominantly people who weren't alive in the 1970s. (But let's be honest, none of Glitter's singles deserve to be high up in any list anyway.)

His last single Through The Years is brilliant think it was written by Mike Leander.

It's actually rather fun; I'll bet 10cc (named by me) gets in there but sadly NOT for our No1 Rubber Bullets but for I'm Not In Love. Glitter should - must - be mentioned. Why not? Abba of course; Queen obviously. JK and Una Paloma Blanca? Sadly only No4. Delighted to see the wonderful Sweet. Mike Chapman on there; ditto Gambo. It was, I think, a great, great decade. Much more fun and varied than the 60s although the music of the 60s was far better.

Predictable no. 1, however I only saw from 18 onwards what happened to You're the one that I want by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-Bomb. I believe that this is the biggest selling single of the 70s (second at least). I never cared too much for Queen, they were too establishment for me.

Yes that should have been in there; Travolta was featured in the Bee Gees segment. Glitter should have featured - even if in the montages of other smashes. They included The Sex Pistols (who reached 36). The time has come for we, the public, to tell TV and radio bosses what the vast majority want; no censorship of entertainment. If Ronnie Barker, instead of his son, had fallen foul of Madame Justice, how appalling that we'd never again see his comic genius. I loathed Rolf Harris' hits (except Sun Arise) but they should be featured when appropriate. All corporations and spineless executives are to blame.

The top 3 were predictable and correct though personally I'd have put Bridge at No1.