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A SHORE THING The BPI’s annual Rock The Boat event took place on The Thames last week, and saw an appearance from none other than UK Eurovision hopeful Engelbert Humperdinck. The Official Charts Company clan was on hand to present its first ever retrospective presentation of a Number 1 Award. Humperdinck famously kept The Beatles off the top spot with Release Me back in 1967, and became the first artist in chart history two different million- selling singles (Release Me and The Last Waltz). But his defining moment may have been pictured here, alongside the BPI's Tony Wadsworth and Geoff Taylor, and Official Charts Company MD Martin Talbot.
JAZZ... NICE You don’t get just anyone at annual PPL-affiliated shindig the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, you know. Last week’s ceremony saw pop meet politics in a big way. Okay, okay: pop/jazz meet politics. [Left to right]: John Prescott, Acker Bilk, Tony Colwyn, Jamie Cullum, PPL’s Fran Nevrkla and Peter Leathem.
ARCHIVE MUSIC WEEK May 21, 1977
Virgin is planning the biggest marketing campaign in its history in order to promote the Sex Pistols (pictured) who have signed a two-year UK recording contract with the company. The group’s first release on Virgin will be the single God Save The
Queen… RCA has announced its acquisition of the rights to the Beatles Live at the Star Club double album. RCA MD Gerry Oord described the album as “a historical document”… Don’t Go Breaking My Heart was named the best pop song at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards, presented by John Inman of Are You Being Served? fame… Finally, EMI Group chairman Sir John Read has called for more energetic and effective worldwide action against record piracy. Read said that until world governments showed greater willingness to introduce or enforce existing copyright legislation in their territories, piracy would grow rather than diminish. Is Read making a mountain out of a molehill? Only time will tell.
NEW RELEASES RECOMMENDED 21.05.77
JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON A Real Mother For Ya THE BROTHERS Sing Me Johnny Guitar Watson’s A Real Mother For Ya is tipped to have a good chance of chart success according to Seventies Music Week, which points out that “the impact made by this American singer in the past 12 months has been quite huge”. The Brothers also get the nod with debut LP Sing Me. Music Week calls it “a refreshing selection of material combining the new with the old.”
SINGLES TOP 5 21.05.77 POS ARTIST
SINGLE
1 ROD STEWART 2 DENIECE
WILLIAMS 3 JOE TEX 4 VAN McCOY
I Don’t Want To Talk About It/First Cut...
Free
Ain’t Gonna Bump No More
The Shuffle 5 KENNY ROGERS Lucille
KEY SONGS IN THE LIFE OF...
PETE TONG
DJ and presenter
First record you remember buying? Slider by T. Rex. I was obsessed with Marc Bolan as a youngster.
Last track you downloaded? TNGHT by Hudson Mohawke & Lunice. God, this man’s beats are bad... meaning out of this world!
Which track would you like played at your funeral? Sympathy For The Devil, Rolling Stones. Always good for the can- can out of the crematorium.
What’s your karaoke speciality? Roy Ayres’ Love Will Bring Us Back Together. When I started DJ-ing Chris Hill was my hero and he would sing over all the records – this is the only one i could stay in tune with... as Roy was a bit flat bless him.
Which song was the first dance at your wedding? Caetano Veloso - Cucurrucu Paloma... it’s a long story, my wife’s Brazilian and we love Almodovar movies, but it confused everyone at the party!
© Official Charts Company
ALBUMS TOP 5 21.05.77 POS ARTIST
1 ABBA 2 EAGLES 3 10CC
ALBUM Arrival
Hotel California Deceptive Bends
4 A STAR IS BORN Soundtrack 5 LEO SAYER
Endless Flight
What’s your favourite single/ track of all time? Ask a DJ that question and their head explodes! Today it’s When Doves Cry by Prince. The man just made music seem so simple and under-cooked; everything in this production is essential.
© Official Charts Company
Recommend a track Music Week readers may not have heard... Paper Crows feat. Major Look, Happier. My first release on the relaunched FFRR. Paper Crows have made a record of real quality.
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