Glam Rock Archives - Phil Andrews

Glam Rock and the Age of Chinnichap

April 4, 2022August 19, 2022Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

For those of us to whom amassing our own personal collection of 45s was the teenage pursuit of the 1970s, the Chinnichap moniker always served to lend the latest 7-inch vinyl cut the ultimate seal of authenticity. Whether it came packaged in the stark orange of RCA Records or the pale blue colours of RAK, […]

Glam, Retro-Glam and Disco – What a Wonderful Time to Have Been Young

January 2, 2022August 19, 2022Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

To understand the unique place that 1976 holds in the annals of popular music and culture, it is first necessary to reflect awhile on what had gone immediately before. As the Summer of Love passed into the realms of ever more distant memory and the seemingly interminable 1960s – with its mods and rockers, beats […]

Everybody’s on Top of the Pops

September 10, 2021August 19, 2022Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

To those of us whose day it was, for so many years all human existence revolved around Thursday evenings and the thirty-minute broadcast on BBC1 which brought us news of all the latest movements from the UK singles’ charts. Whichever football team one supported, which school one went to – Top of the Pops was […]