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in the 60s and 70s - as a singer. Hits like Everyone's Gone To The Moon and Una Paloma Blanca and under pseudonyms like It Only Takes A Minute and Loop di Love - worldwide (Johnny Reggae was a smash in Europe); on a huge amount of compilation albums (a hit single sold 5 million on vinyl as a 45 but several times that as a track on the equivalents of Now That's What I Call JK). Many more, of course, as a Producer and Label Boss, if you add in Genesis, Bay City Rollers, Rocky Horror Show, 10cc and others. It was fun.
Yes it was huge in Germany, to my surprise, yet Chumbawamba's I Get Knocked Down, which I got signed by EMI Germany and would have thought could almost have been their theme song (and mine) was far less big a hit there than everywhere else! Go figure.
Oddly enough Popbitch just carried a story regarding how many million more singles sold this decade compared to the 60s - I suggest the price changes and easy availability of singles now means people happily buy anything and probably don't even listen to much of it; very different to the cherished gems we used to care so much about. Just as human life is now so superficial; our appreciation of music has dissipated and now it is just another consumer product.