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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.
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]
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.
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.
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]
1970: Full House (Fairport Convention) 1970: Hark!The Village Wait (Steeleye Span); 1970: The Sweet Primeroses (Shirley Collins) 1970: Please to See the King (Steeleye Span) 1971: Land Fall (Martin Carthy)
British male singer-songwriters (4 C, 113 P) T. British tenors (5 C, 9 P) Pages in category "British male singers" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of ...
Rolling Stone has referred to the band as "British hard rock pioneers". [12] The magazine ranked Rodgers No. 55 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", [13] and Kossoff at No. 51 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". [12] Free were signed to Island Records in the UK and A&M Records in North America.