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Paul McCartney with wife and Wings band member Linda.McCartney wrote the Wings song "Mull of Kintyre", which was the best-selling record of the decade.Queen, who spent nine weeks at number one with "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1975 John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, who had two number-one singles in 1978 and occupied the top spot for over a quarter of the year.
Singles are a type of music release that typically have fewer tracks than an extended play or an album. Throughout the 1970s the UK Singles Chart was compiled by the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) [1] from the sales data of a representative panel of record shops across the country, starting with about 250 shops at the beginning of the decade and increasing to around 450 stores by 1979.
British folk rock was developed in Britain during the mid to late 1960s by the bands Fairport Convention, and Pentangle which built on elements of American folk rock, and on the second British folk revival. [17] Rather than mixing electric music with forms of American influenced progressive folk, it used traditional English music as its basis. [18]
Nineteen artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1970. Chicago, Deep Purple, Hot Chocolate, The Jackson 5 and Neil Diamond were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1970. The 1969 Christmas number-one, "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris, remained at number-one for the first four weeks of 1970.
Black British male singers (4 C) B. British baritones (5 C, 7 P) British bass-baritones (3 C, 2 P) British basses (4 C, 10 P) F. British male folk singers (1 C, 1 P) H.
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Major British soft rock artists of the 1970s included 10cc, Mungo Jerry, the Hollies, Rod Stewart, the Alan Parsons Project, and Paul McCartney and Wings. Some of the most successful singers and songwriters were Cat Stevens, Steve Winwood, Albert Hammond, Rupert Holmes, and Elton John. [19]
Music of the United Kingdom (1970s) This page was last edited on 5 December 2024, at 22:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...