![]() ![]() One of the joys of the earliest Top of the Pops albums lies in the rediscovery, or simply remembrance, of artists and songs that more mainstream pop histories either overlook or place in another context entirely. From here on, there would not be a single significant Chinn and Chapman song that did not make it onto one volume or another. But already the Chinnichap juggernaut is rolling, across the Sweet's pseudo-calypso romp "Co-Co" and New Zealanders New World's compulsively mawkish "Tom Tom Turnaround." Maybe there isn't a hint of the ballroom blitz in either number, but the duo's eye for immediacy cannot be faulted - and neither can the Top of the Pops team's eye for success. ![]() 18 dates from the very dawn of that domination, its dozen tracks reflecting the charts of July 1971. Between 19, the apex of their success, they scored 16 Top 20 hits and, among them, some of the best-remembered singles of the entire glam rock era. ![]() The stranglehold with which songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman grasped the British charts during the first half of the 1970s remains one of the most awe-inspiring runs of success in the annals of U.K. ![]()
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