"insane world."" The site also said McLean performs ""a particularly poignant rendition of ""Vincent"" on the live album ""Starry, Starry Night"". Vincent (song) ""Vincent"" is a song by Don McLean written as a tribute to Vincent van Gogh. It is also known by its opening line, ""Starry Starry Night"", a reference to Van Gogh's 1889 painting ""The Starry Night"". The song also describes other paintings by the artist. McLean wrote the lyrics in 1971 after reading a book about the life of van Gogh. The following year, the song became the number one hit in the UK Singles Chart for"
"Vincent, became a UK top 50 hit again in 1988 when it was covered by the British pop rock band Transvision Vamp as the second single from their debut album ""Pop Art"". The song was cited by the magazine ""Mojo"" as one of the Top 20 Killer New Wave Tracks from the US. Holly and the Italians went on tour in the UK with The Clash and opened with ska band The Selecter for the American new wave chart-topping act Blondie at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 22 January 1980, where they were noticed by renowned photographer Lynn Goldsmith."
"1972 and this version reached No. 1 on the UK single chart in February 1972. Since its release, the tune of the chorus of ""Son of My Father"" has been regularly used on the terraces of British football grounds for football chants. A copy of Giorgio's version found its way to studio manager Roger Easterby who then persuaded the British band Chicory Tip to record it. The song, produced by Easterby and Des Champ, was recorded on Christmas Eve 1971 in the studio of George Martin. The song is notable as the first UK number one single to prominently feature"
"long-term manager and friend, David Whitehouse, they went ahead with its release. It is the only British number one single to feature a mother and son. Originally released in early 1972, it flopped on its first release. It was picked up in Belgium and used on a current affairs programme, and became a hit there, reaching number one in the Belgian singles chart. Decca, encouraged by this success, re-released it and with the backing of then BBC Radio 1 DJ Noel Edmonds, it finally became a hit in the UK, spending four weeks at the top of the UK Singles"
"Vince Hill Vincent “Vince” Hill (born 16 April 1934) is an English traditional pop music singer and songwriter who is best known for his recording of the Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune ""Edelweiss"" (1967) which reached No.2 on the UK Singles Chart (staying on the chart for 17 weeks). Along with a successful recording career in the 1960s, Hill hosted several hit TV shows during the seventies and eighties, including ""They Sold a Million"" (BBC), ""Musical Time Machine"" (BBC) and his own chat show ""Gas Street"" (ITV). Hill first sang professionally in a public house called The Prospect in Margate,"
"of 56. Rikki Patrick{Recardo Patrick} replaced Marcel King in 1975. Sweet Sensation (band) Sweet Sensation was an eight piece British soul group who had some success in the mid 1970s. They are best known for their 1974 No. 1 UK hit, ""Sad Sweet Dreamer"". Formed in Manchester in 1971, the band came to prominence after appearing on the ITV talent show ""New Faces"". Under the guidance of panellist Tony Hatch the band signed to Pye Records. The debut single ""Snowfire"" failed to reach the charts, but the follow-up ""Sad Sweet Dreamer"" was a UK number one single in October 1974,"
"July 1972, a few weeks after the contract was signed, Roxy Music recorded two more songs, ""Virginia Plain"" and ""The Numberer"", that were released as a single. It peaked at No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart and helped push sales of the album, which itself went to No. 10. In most later repressings of the album, including CD versions, the song ""Virginia Plain"" has been included. Versions of all nine tracks of the UK album were recorded by the BBC for the John Peel show on 4 January and 23 May 1972, with the earlier session featuring David O'List"
"Daniel Boone (singer) Daniel Boone (also known as Peter Lee Stirling, born Peter Charles Green, 31 July 1942, Birmingham, England) is an English pop musician who became a one-hit wonder in the United States with the single ""Beautiful Sunday"" in 1972. The song was written by Boone and Rod McQueen and sold over 2,000,000 copies worldwide. It peaked at #15 on The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at the end of the summer of 1972, having already reached #21 on the UK Singles Chart earlier during that same year. In 1972, Boone was the recipient of the ""Most Likeable Singer"""
"made #10 and ""The Never Never Land"" made #4. Six years later in 1960, he had his final hit with ""Caribbean Honeymoon"", which reached a peak position of #42 on the UK Singles Chart. Frank Weir Frank Weir (30 January 1911 – 12 May 1981) was a British orchestra leader and jazz musician. He reached No.1 on the UK Singles Chart in 1954 with Vera Lynn and the song ""My Son, My Son"", and with positive reviews in ""Variety"", ""Cash Box"" and ""Billboard"". His version of ""The Happy Wanderer"" became one of the most popular recordings of 1954, in both"
"""Billboard"" ranked it as the No. 94 song for 1972. The song makes use mainly of the guitar but also includes the accordion, marimba, and strings. In 2000, PBS aired ""Don McLean: Starry, Starry Night,"" a concert special that was filmed in Austin, Texas. McLean said the following about the genesis of the song: ""The Telegraph"" wrote ""With its bittersweet palette of major and minor chords, ""Vincent""'s soothing melody is one of high emotion recollected in tranquillity"". AllMusic retrospectively described the song as ""McLean's paean to Van Gogh ... sympathiz[ing] with Van Gogh's suicide as a sane comment on an"
"by his two daughters (Natali and Melody Williams) and two sons, the actor Anthony Barclay and Michael Stewart. Danny Williams (singer) Danny Williams (7 January 1942 – 6 December 2005) was a British, South African-born pop singer. who earned the nickname, ""Britain's Johnny Mathis"", for his smooth and stylish way with a ballad. He is best known for singing his UK number 1 version of ""Moon River"" in 1961 and his US top ten hit, ""White on White"". Born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Williams won a talent contest at the age of 14 and joined a touring"
"27 January 1972) is an English singer-songwriter, known for being a member of pop group Take That. After the band split up in 1996, Owen became the first ex-member to release solo material. His debut studio album ""Green Man"" charted at number 33, which included the singles ""Child"", ""Clementine"" and ""I Am What I Am"". On Day 1, Mark was sixth to enter the house. He was later announced as the winner of the series, earning 77% of the public vote and beating Les. He broke down in tears when he left the house, overwhelmed by the fans' support. Melinda"
"A UK number one for five weeks in December 1972, it was the Christmas number one that year, and has since sold over a million copies in the UK. It also reached #2 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report) and #38 on the US, Billboard Hot 100. The song was first recorded by the writer and released in 1969. Kingsley's recording was an unsuccessful single although it was played by a popular MOR station, KMPC, in Los Angeles. However, Kingsley's record was distributed by MGM, the record label the Osmonds recorded for, and that was how Jimmy's mother"
"scored a number one hit on the UK Singles chart in 1973. The recording by American country singer Sonny James was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 3602. It first reached the ""Billboard"" chart on January 5, 1957. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at No. 1; on the Best Seller chart, at No. 2; on the Juke Box chart, at No. 4; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached No. 2. On ""Billboard""'s country music charts, it was a No. 1 hit for nine weeks, and remained the longest-reigning of James' 23 chart-topping"
"Walker (""Lights of Cincinnati""), Dana (""It's Gonna Be a Cold Cold Christmas""), The Drifters (""Like Sister And Brother""), Crystal Gayle (""It's Like We Never Said Goodbye""), Hot Chocolate (""I'll Put You Together Again""), Sue and Sunny and Carol Douglas (""Doctor's Orders"") and, most successfully of all, UK number one hits for David Soul (""Silver Lady"") and The New Seekers (the Ivor Novello Award-winning, ""You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me""). In 1972, his joint composition with Peter Callander of ""Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast"", was recorded by Wayne Newton. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a"
"integrity, and ""Melody Maker"" called it ""Ray Davies' finest hour ... beautifully British to the core"". The album, although not very successful commercially, was a return to the charts in the US for the band. Their previous effort, ""The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society"", received acclaim from critics but failed to chart in any country upon its 1968 release, with total US sales estimated at under 25,000 copies. The Kinks returned to the ""Billboard"" charts in 1969 after a two-year absence, with the lead single from the record, ""Victoria"", peaking at number 62. The album itself reached number"
"J. Vincent Edwards J. Vincent Edwards (born 20 June 1947) is a British singer. He became well known in the musical ""Hair"" in 1968, and began recording a series of singles. The most notable was a song called ""Thanks"" (1969), which has subsequently appeared on a number of compilation albums. Edwards also contributed to the ""Bloomfield"" soundtrack. Later Edwards turned to song writing. With Pierre Tubbs he wrote ""Right Back Where We Started From"", which was a No. 2 hit in the UK Singles Chart for Maxine Nightingale in May 1976. In addition, Edwards wrote songs with Miki Antony and"
"Level and later founded the Christian-oriented Joe English Band. Undeterred by their departure, Wings released the already-completed McCartney–Laine ballad ""Mull of Kintyre"", an ode to the Scottish coastal region where McCartney had made his home in the early 1970s. Its broad appeal was maximised by a pre-Christmas release. It became an international hit, dominating the charts in Britain (where it was Wings' only number 1 single), Australia and many other countries over the Christmas/New Year period. Ultimately, it became the first single to exceed sales of 2 million in the UK, eclipsing the previous all-time best-seller (the Beatles' ""She Loves"
"Virginia Plain ""Virginia Plain"" is a song by English rock band Roxy Music, released as their debut single in August 1972. Written by Roxy frontman Bryan Ferry, the song was recorded by the band in July 1972 at London's Command Studios. Backed with ""The Numberer"", an instrumental composed by Andy Mackay, as a single the song became a Top 10 hit in the UK, peaking at number four. The song was not included on the band's original UK debut album, ""Roxy Music"", having not even been recorded when the album was released. After the success of the album in the"
"in 2005, Jim Irvin of ""Mojo"" said that its arrival at number 1 on 8 June 1967, on the same day that the Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" topped the national albums chart, marked the start of the Summer of Love in Britain. According to music historian Harvey Kubernik, in the context of the Summer of Love, ""A Whiter Shade of Pale"" was the ""one song [that] stood above all others, its Everest-like status conferred by no less than John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who were enthralled by the Chaucerian wordplay and heavenly Baroque accompaniment"". Kubernik also writes"
"Victoria (the Kinks song) ""Victoria"" is a song written by Ray Davies of the Kinks. It is the opening track on the band's 1969 concept album ""Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)"". In Ray Davies' satirical style, the lyrics juxtapose the grim realities of life in Britain during the 19th century (""""Sex was bad, and obscene/And the rich were so mean"""") with the paternalist aspirations of the British Empire in the Victorian age (""""From the West to the East/From the rich to the poor/Victoria loved them all""""), and expresses the simple adulation of queen and country"
"The single was the second of four of his songs to hit #1 on the Easy Listening chart, where it had a one-week stay at that top spot in December 1972. It became a gold record. When originally released in the United Kingdom in 1972, the song failed to reach the UK Singles Chart; however, a re-release of the single in 1974, on the UK label, peaked at #5. The song also topped the music charts in at least seven nations, including Australia (Kent Music Report, two weeks), Canada (RPM Magazine, one week), and Germany (Media Control Charts, 13 weeks"
"Vice (Miranda Lambert song) ""Vice"" is a song recorded by American country music artist Miranda Lambert. It was released to radio on July 18, 2016, as the lead single from Lambert's sixth studio album, ""The Weight of These Wings"" (2016). The song was written by Lambert, Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally. ""Vice"" debuted at number two on the Hot Country Songs chart in August 2016. ""Vice"" was ranked at number 31 on ""Rolling Stone""’s ""50 Best Songs of 2016"" list. In the United States, ""Vice"" had an opening week sales of 64,000 copies and 14.6 million audience impression, prompting it"
"in the UK, on 8 February 1974. In January 1974, the song, taken from the album ""Ringo"", hit number one. The latter performance reunited Ringo Starr with his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney. McCartney is credited on the liner notes of the album ""Ringo"" as having played the solo on a kazoo. But reviewer Michael Verity has quoted the song's producer, Richard Perry, as revealing it wasn't actually a kazoo. “In fact, the solo on ‘You’re Sixteen,’ which sounds like a kazoo or something, was Paul singing very spontaneously as we played that track back, so he’s singing the solo"
"was a joke when the A&R staff at RCA Victor picked it for her; it was so different from what she was used to recording. It was a No. 1 hit, a million seller, and one of the early songs of the rock and roll era. The track also spent one week at No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in March 1956. Other artists who recorded this song include Ann-Margret (in 1962), Annette Funicello (in 1961), Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music with Alice Lon on vocals (in 1956, Coral EC 81128), and George Wright in his 1984 album"
"Luxembourg's ""Tu Te Reconnaîtras"" and Spain's ""Eres Tú."" This time, Richard took Valium to overcome his nerves and his manager was almost unable to wake him for the performance. Richard also hosted the BBC's qualifying heat for the Eurovision Song Contest, ""A Song for Europe,"" in 1970, 1971 and 1972 as part of his BBCTV variety series. He presented the Eurovision Song Contest Previews for the BBC in 1971 and 1972. In 1975, he released the single ""Honky Tonk Angel,"" produced by Hank Marvin and John Farrar, oblivious to its connotations or hidden meanings. As soon as he was notified"
"was played by Jimmy Savile on his Sunday afternoon radio show ""Saviles Travels"". It was heard by Stephen James, of Dick James Music, who wanted to release the tune in the UK but could not obtain the rights. He had the tune covered by other musicians including Elton John on piano, but did not like that version. It was then rearranged by Zack Laurence and re-recorded with Laurence replacing Elton John on piano. The tune was released in the UK on 9 May 1970, reaching number 2 in the UK Singles Chart on 4 July 1970. Zack Laurence then performed"
"Mann), ""Hitchin' a Ride"" (Vanity Fare), ""Turn on the Sun"" (Nana Mouskouri) plus ""Avenues and Alleyways"", ""Las Vegas"", and ""I Did What I Did for Maria"" for Tony Christie. In 1972, his joint composition with Geoff Stephens of ""Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast"", was recorded by Wayne Newton. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in July 1972. Whilst Callander was especially prolific during the 1960s and 1970s, his influence continued throughout his life. In 2005, Tony Christie spent seven weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart with the"
"""The Homing Waltz"" (all 1952) and ""The Windsor Waltz"" (1953). Lynn's version of the song was produced by Frank Lee and released on Decca Records under the original catalogue number - F 10372. The full credit on Lynn's record read 'Vera Lynn with Frank Weir, his Saxophone, his Orchestra and Chorus'. When the song hit, co-writer Calvert became the second number-one recording star, after Mantovani, to write a number one hit for someone else. A recording by Frankie Vaughan and Vocal Group with Geoff Love and his orchestra was made in London on September 19, 1954. It was released by"
"the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in February 1972. It was one of the first hit singles to feature a Moog synthesizer, which in this case was programmed and played by studio engineer and record producer Chris Thomas. A different account was given by Chicory Tip's Rick Foster, who stated in an interview with TV and radio broadcaster Stuart Cameron in 2012 that the Moog was played by the musician who joined them on ""Top of the Pops"", whose name he could not remember. The single sold over one million copies by July 1972, and was awarded a gold"
"Kinks have been called ""the most adamantly British of the Brit Invasion bands"" on account of Ray Davies' abiding fascination with England's imperial past and his tender, bittersweet evocations of ""a vanishing, romanticized world of village greens, pubs and public schools"". During the band's mid-period, he wrote many cheerfully eccentric—and often ironic—celebrations of traditional English culture and living: ""Village Green"" (1966), ""Afternoon Tea"" and ""Autumn Almanac"" (both 1967), ""The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains"" (1968), ""Victoria"" (1969), ""Have a Cuppa Tea"" (1971) and ""Cricket"" (1973). In other songs, Davies revived the style of British music hall, vaudeville and trad jazz:"
"first period of British success in the late 1960s started with ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"" and the band added drummer Colin Petersen and guitarist Vince Melouney to their line up. They toured Europe in 1967 and 1968 as well as the US in August 1968. The band's first UK No. 1 was ""Massachusetts"" which features Gibb on lead vocal. On the day it reached number one, 5 November 1967, Robin Gibb recalled to ""The Mail on Sunday"" on 1 November 2009: On 13 June 1968, Gibb recorded demos for seven songs, accompanying himself on guitar. The tape listed Robin"
"No. 52, leaping to number 4 the following week and then reaching Number 1 on 1 June 1985. The record also topped the Irish Singles Chart. The single gave Gerry Marsden a 'first' in British recording history, by becoming the first person ever to top the charts with two versions of the same song. The band members included: Bruce Forsyth, Denny Laine, Jim Diamond, Tony Christie, Rick Wakeman, John Conteh, The Barron Knights, Jess Conrad, Kiki Dee, the Foxes, Rolf Harris, Graham Gouldman, Kenny Lynch, Rick Wild of The Overlanders, Keith Chegwin, Tony Hicks, Colin Blunstone, Tim Hinkley, Johnny Logan,"