An Old Friend returns
Jan. 3rd, 2006 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enitharmonI don't envy Tom (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
freakytigger) and the mammoth task he's set himself of documenting every one of the UK's 1000+ Number One hits in his idiosyncratic, and very elegant, way. So I'm not surprised he took a break during 2005, although I love the project and I miss his insights into the music I loved (and loathed) in my youth.
It was great to see him back in action yesterday. He must have been looking forward to it because he's plunged in again at the height of 1966, probably the last and greatest year of the singles market. After that came The Doors and The Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa, none of whom seriously expected to have a hit single. (I have a feeling I've said all this before, now I think about it).
How wonderful to read Tom on one of my favourites of the time, Chris Farlowe's Out Of Time yesterday. And today he's given only his second 10 - and why aren't I surprised that it goes to The Beatles and Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine? No single was ever more pivotal in the history of popular music. Both sides come from the the Revolver album after all.
freakytigger) and the mammoth task he's set himself of documenting every one of the UK's 1000+ Number One hits in his idiosyncratic, and very elegant, way. So I'm not surprised he took a break during 2005, although I love the project and I miss his insights into the music I loved (and loathed) in my youth.It was great to see him back in action yesterday. He must have been looking forward to it because he's plunged in again at the height of 1966, probably the last and greatest year of the singles market. After that came The Doors and The Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa, none of whom seriously expected to have a hit single. (I have a feeling I've said all this before, now I think about it).
How wonderful to read Tom on one of my favourites of the time, Chris Farlowe's Out Of Time yesterday. And today he's given only his second 10 - and why aren't I surprised that it goes to The Beatles and Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine? No single was ever more pivotal in the history of popular music. Both sides come from the the Revolver album after all.
