David Essex “Rock on”

You all know this one. ‘Tis a great record. (”On and on” is crap;

I thought it might be a dub, but sadly it’s a shit ballad.)

Prove it?

Just the facts:

Produced by Jeff Wayne aka Klaus Trophobe with garden shedloads of echo, 3-D bass, slinky glissandi strings, hardly any drums, nitpicking guitar and fag packet afterthought lyrics.

Stood out a million miles on the radio when it came out.

Covered by Def Leppard!

Nominated for an Emmy!

And where do we go from here? 

A is for…

“I thought this was a music blog!”  I hear you wail in torment.

Wellll……it is. 

But  I was thinking about the sadly defunct UK freakbeat combo The Aardvarks and couldn’t find a pic of them, so here’s the bassist.

Or not, as the case may be. Ho ho ho. A superb beast, nonetheless.

Watch out for an animal beginning with the letter ‘b’ coming to a blog near you soon.