It all starts with the Beatles and the first track on Please Please Me. "I saw her standing there" is the classic British Rock n Roll song - who said Mccartney can't rock!
Early 70's T Rex - the classic albums - try Slider - sounds magic 30 years on. Crosby Stills & Nash - amazingly saw them this year and they still sing like angels.
Stevie Wonder - the most talented single popular composer of the past 50 years - he has it all.
Mid 70's Roxy, 10cc and ELO - Jeff Lynnne is perhaps the most underated of all song writers.
Late 70's The Jam. Weller has given me pleasure all the way along - a true rock god - up there with Townsend, Lennon, Bowie and Clapton.
Thereafter in no particular order: Steely Dan, Jayhawks, Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Waterboys, Paul McCartney solo, Pat Metheny. Joni Mitchell, Oasis, Boz Scaggs.
New artist to try out Gavin DeGraw - Chariot. Great songs, soaring voice....
Best albums ever : Abbey Road, Hjeira, All Mod Cons, Royal Scam, Innervisions, Bring 'Em all In (Mike Scott), Stephen Stills, What's going On, Young Americans, All things must pass, Extension of a man ( Donmny Hathaway), Poet II (Bobby Womack), Young Americans and Blood on the Tracks many others.
Favourite singles "Pinball" by Brian Protheroe, "Roxanne" by the Police and "Isn't it time" by the Baby's
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