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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]
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.
Abingdon. Radiohead; Accrington. Diana Vickers; Andover. The Troggs; Anstey. Molly Smitten-Downes; Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The Young Knives; Ashford. Oliver Sykes; Aylesbury
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.
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) 1971: No Roses (Shirley Collins) 1971: Angel Delight (Fairport Convention) 1971: Babbacombe Lee (Fairport Convention) 1971: Bless the ...
4 January – The Who drummer Keith Moon fatally runs over his chauffeur with his Bentley while trying to escape a mob outside a pub. The death is later ruled an accident. 16 January – John Lennon's London art gallery exhibit of lithographs, Bag One, is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs"
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This list documents Britain's best-selling music artists alphabetically as well as by record sales. This page lists those artists who have had claims of over one million or more records in sales. The list is divided into numerous record-sales brackets within each of which, artists are listed in alphabetical order, rather than by number of records sold. The artists on the list are supported by ...