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UK POP MUSIC in the years ..
UK POP MUSIC JOURNEY THROUGH 200 SONGS
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1930s-40s
∙ 1931 ∙ My girl's pussy (Harry Roy & his Bat Club Boys) ∙ 1934 ∙ Melancholy Baby (Pathé film 1934) (Al Bowlly) ∙ 1935 ∙ Blue moon (Al Bowlly) ∙ 1943 ∙ We'll meet again (Vera Lynn) ∙ 1949 ∙ Put your shoes on Lucy (Petula Clark) ∙ Dirty old town (Ewan McColl) ∙
50s
∙ 1953 ∙ Doggie in the window (how much is that) (Lita Roza) ∙ 1954 ∙ If I give my heart to you (Joan Reagan) ∙ Unchained melody (Jimmy Young) ∙ The Sycamore Tree (Alma Cogan) ∙ Meet me on the corner (Max Bygraves) ∙ Rock Island line (Lonnie Donegan) ∙ 1956 ∙ Burn my candle (Shirley Bassey ) ∙ Don't you rock me Daddy-O (The Vipers) ∙ Singing the blues / Rock with the caveman (Tommy Steele) ∙ 1957 ∙ Alone (Petula Clark) ∙ He's got the whole world in his hands (Laurie London) ∙ Rainbow (Russ Hamilton) ∙ The garden of Eden (Frankie Vaughan) ∙ 1958 ∙ Endless sleep (Marty Wilde) ∙ Move it (Cliff Richard & the Shadows) ∙ 1959 ∙ Living doll (Cliff Richard & the Shadows) ∙ Seven little girls sitting in the back seat (The Avons) ∙ As I love you (Shirley Bassey ) ∙ What do you want? (Adam Faith) ∙ What do you make those eyes at me for? (Emile Ford) ∙ Teenager in Love (Marty Wilde) ∙ Maybe tomorrow (Billy Fury) ∙
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60s
∙ 1960 ∙ Apache (The Shadows) ∙ Wondrous place (Billy Fury) ∙ 1961 ∙ Johnny, remember me (Johnny Leyton) ∙ 1962 ∙ Love Me Do (The Beatles) ∙ 1963 ∙ Let her go (Joe Brown) ∙ 1964 ∙ Downtown (Petula Clark) ∙ Doo Wah Diddy Diddy (Manfred Mann) ∙ House Of The Rising Sun (The Animals) ∙ You Really Got Me (The Kinks) ∙ She's not there (The Zombies) ∙ 1965 ∙ My Generation (The Who) ∙ Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones) ∙ Shout (Lulu) ∙ The Universal Soldier (Donovan) ∙ 1966 ∙ Baby Come Back (The Equals) ∙ 1967 ∙ Arnold Layne (Pink Floyd) ∙ Let me sleep beside you (David Bowie) ∙ Puppet on a string (Sandie Shaw) ∙ Show Me (Tom Jones) ∙ 1968 ∙ Eloise (Barry Ryan) ∙ Hush (Deep Purple) ∙ Those were the days (Mary Hopkin) ∙ 1969 ∙ It's five o'clock (Aphrodite Childs, GR) ∙ Venus (Shocking Blue, NL) ∙ Whole lotta love (Led Zeppelin) ∙ The windmills of your mind (Noel Harrison) ∙ Streets of London (Ralph McTell) ∙ Where do you go to (my lovely)? (Peter Starstedt) ∙
70s
∙ 1970 ∙ Chirpy chirpy chip chip (Middle Of The Road) ∙ In the summertime (Mungo Jerry ) ∙ Paranoid (Black Sabbath) ∙ 1971 ∙ Get it on (T. Rex) ∙ Lady in black (Uriah Heap) ∙ Maggie May (Rod Stewart) ∙ Coz' I luv you (Slade) ∙ 1972 ∙ Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie) ∙ 1973 ∙ Get down (Gilbert O'Sullivan) ∙ The show must go on (Leo Sayer) ∙ 1974 ∙ Dreamer (Supertramp) ∙ 1975 ∙ I love rock'n roll (The Arrows) ∙ Show me the way (Peter Frampton) ∙ 1976 ∙ Year of the cat (Al Stewart) ∙ 1977 ∙ Sex & drugs & rock & roll (Ian Dury & the Blockheads) ∙ 1978 ∙ Driver's seat (Sniff'n The Tears) ∙ Sultans of swing (Dire Straits) ∙ Wurthering Heights (Kate Bush) ∙ 1979 ∙ I don't like mondays (Boomtown Rats) ∙ London calling (The Clash) ∙ Pop Muzik (M) ∙ Video killed the radio star (The Buggles) ∙ The ballad of Lucy Jordan (Marianne Faithfull) ∙
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80s
∙ 1980 ∙ Enola gay (OMD Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) ∙ Johnny and Mary (Robert Palmer) ∙ Stop the cavalry (Jona Lewie) ∙ Vienna (Ultravox) ∙ 1981 ∙ Nightshift (Siouxsee and the Banshees) ∙ Tainted love (Soft Cell) ∙ You're in the army now (Bolland & Bolland NL) ∙ 1982 ∙ Do you really want to hurt me (Boy George & Culture Club) ∙ 1983 ∙ Blue monday (New Order) ∙ Lined up (Shriekback) ∙ New Year's day (U2) ∙ Owners of a lonely heart (Yes) ∙ Sweet dreams (are made of this) (Eurythmics) ∙ 1984 ∙ How soon is now (The Smiths) ∙ The killing moon (Echo & the Bunnymen) ∙ Wake me up before you go (Wham) ∙ Forest fire (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions) ∙ 1985 ∙ Don't you (Simple Minds) ∙ In between days (The Cure) ∙ Shake the disease (Depeche Mode) ∙ 1986 ∙ Living In another world (Talk Talk) ∙ Sweet sixteen (Billy Idol) ∙ Wonderful life (Black) ∙ 1987 ∙ Darklands (The Jesus and Mary Chain) ∙ Fairytale of New York (The Pogues) ∙ I want your hands on me (Sinead O'Connor) ∙ 1988 ∙ Everything good Is bad (Westworld ) ∙ Twist in my sobriety (Tanita Tikaram) ∙ 1989 ∙ Nothing ever happens (Del Amitri) ∙ She drives me crazy (Fine Young Cannibals) ∙ So alive (Love & Rockets) ∙ Waltz Darling (Malcolm McLaren) ∙
90s
∙ 1990 ∙ Crazy (Seal) ∙ 1991 ∙ I'm too sexy (Right Said Fred) ∙ Safe from harm (Massive Attack) ∙ Shine (Slowdive) ∙ Stars (Simply Red) ∙ 1992 ∙ 10 little beauty queens (David J) ∙ Born of frustration (James) ∙ Connected (Stereo MC's) ∙ Creep (Radiohead) ∙ Run (Spiritualized) ∙ 1992 ∙ The life of Riley (Lightening Seeds) ∙ 1993 ∙ Babies (Pulp) ∙ Desire lines (Lush) ∙ 1994 ∙ Mysterons (Portishead) ∙ Seven seconds (Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry) ∙ Island (Heather Nova) ∙ 1995 ∙ Common people (Pulp) ∙ Country house (Blur) ∙ Down by the water (PJ Harvey) ∙ Insomnia (Faithless) ∙ Wonderwall (Oasis) ∙ 1996 ∙ Londinium (Archive) ∙ Please don't bend (Donovan) ∙ Stupid girl (Garbage) ∙ Wannabe (Spice Girls) ∙ 1997 ∙ Bang bang (2 shots in the head) (Black Attack) ∙ Beetlebum (Blur) ∙ Bitter sweet symphony (The Verve) ∙ 1998 ∙ Be There (Unkle) ∙ Corpses in their mouth (Ian Brown) ∙ Sing It Back (Moloko) ∙ If you tolerate this your chidren will be next (Manic Street Preachers) ∙ 1999 ∙ Contradictive (Tricky) ∙ Hunter (Dido) ∙ Sandriam (Perry Blake) ∙
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2000s
∙ 2000 ∙ I'm doing fine (Day One) ∙ Yellow (Coldplay) ∙ 2001 ∙ Dice (Finley Quaye) ∙ Knives out (Radiohead) ∙ Sing (Travis) ∙ 2002 ∙ All possibilities (Badly Drawn Boy) ∙ Angels with dirty faces (Sugababes) ∙ Feel (Robbie Williams) ∙ It takes more (Ms. Dynamite) ∙ Monday Monday Monday (Tegan & Sara) ∙ My culture (One Giant Leap) ∙ Sparkle (Sophie Ellis-Bextor) ∙ 2003 ∙ Avalanche (Thea Gilmore) ∙ Need one (Martina Topley-Bird) ∙ The bitter end (Placebo) ∙ 2004 ∙ Lost souls forever (Kasabian) ∙ Snakes and ladders (Joss Stone) ∙ You're beautiful (James Blunt) ∙ 2005 ∙ Black horse and the cherry tree (KT Tunstall) ∙ Dakota (Stereophonics) ∙ Feel good Inc. (Gorillaz) ∙ Passer by (Mattafix) ∙ Spider's web (Katie Melua) ∙
∙ 2006 ∙ Back to black (Amy Winehouse) ∙ Elusive (Scott Matthews) ∙ Put your records on (Corinne Bailey Rae) ∙ What's a girl to do? (Bats For Lashes) ∙ When the sun goes down (Arctic Monkeys) ∙ Writer's block (Just Jack) ∙ 2007 ∙ Mundian to Bach Ke (Panjabi MC) ∙ Overpowered (Róisín Murphy) ∙ Paper planes (M.I.A.) ∙ Relax, take it easy (Mika) ∙ This is the life (Amy MacDonald ) ∙ 2008 ∙ Shut up and let me go (The Ting Tings) ∙ The boy does nothing (Alesha Dixon) ∙ 2009 ∙ A little death around the eyes (Pete Doherty) ∙ Because of you (Skunk Anansie) ∙ Breakeven (The Script) ∙ Dog days are over (Florence + The Machine ) ∙ In your hands (Charlie Winston) ∙ Somewhere only we know (Keane) ∙ Uprising (Muse) ∙
2010s
∙ 2010 ∙ Intuition (LoneLady) ∙ She said (Plan B) ∙ 2011 ∙ A time for .. (Lack of Afro ft Wayne Gidden) ∙ Home (Lisa Hannigan) ∙ Someone like you (Adele) ∙ Too Close (Alex Clare ) ∙ Youth (Daughter) ∙ 2012 ∙ Breezeblocks (Alt J) ∙ Devil's spoke (Laura Marling) ∙ I'm getting ready (Michael Kiwanuka) ∙ Let Her Go (Passenger) ∙ The mother we share (Chvrches) ∙ 2013 ∙ La la la (Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith) ∙ Love me again (John Newman) ∙ Man (Neko Case) ∙ The Trip (Still Corners) ∙ 2014 ∙ It's good to be alive (Imelda May) ∙ You and I (Jessie Ware) ∙ 2015 ∙ Wildfire (Seafret) ∙ 2016 ∙ Human (Rag'n Bone Man) ∙ Skwod (Nadia Rose) ∙ Rockabye (Clean Bandit) ∙ 2017 ∙ New rules (Dua Lipa) ∙ Woman (Joel Culpepper) ∙ 2018 ∙ Nina cried power (Hozier ft Mavis Staples) ∙ 2019 ∙ My cheating heart (Love Fame Tragedy) ∙ Thunderclouds (LSD Labyrinth, Sia, Diplo) ∙ 2020 ∙ A hero's death (Fontaine D.C.) ∙
