Classic Crackers 1978

20 Crackers From 1978 – The Year A Female Songstress Topped The UK Singles Chart For The First Time Ever

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Back in time

3 February 2024

1978 was a new-punk-wave year of alternative razzmatazz, sonic turmoil
and timeless killer tracks by Buzzcocks, The Clash, Siouxsie and The Banshees,
Blondie, PIL, Talking Heads, and many more.

It was also the first year ever that a female singer-songwriter topped
the UK Singles Chart with a self-written song. It was the then 20-year-old
wayward artist Kate Bush who did it with her debut single Wuthering
Heights in January 1978.

Turn Up The Volume‘s selection of 20 classic crackers from 1978.

Oops, 1978 was also the year of Grease and Superman.

TURN UP THE VOLUME Listens Back – 25 From 1978

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1978 was the year of Grease, Superman, The UK Winter of Discontent… STOP!
Forget all that. 1978 was a new punk wave year of alternative razzmatazz,
sonic turmoil and timeless killer tracks by Patti Smith, Buzzcocks, The Clash,
Blondie, PIL, Talking Heads and, yes, The Stones & The Boss and many more.

Also the year of teenage kicks and the year we
learned that Jesus was a rock ‘n’ roll nigger…

Here come Turn Up The Volume‘s
25 ear-picked killer tracks of 1978…

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Also the year the world
turned DayGlo…

(Image: Cover of the book of The Creative Life of Poly Styrene)