DAVE EDMUNDS Topped The UK Charts With ‘I HEAR YOU KNOCKING’ 55 Years Ago Today
Top singles from the past
28 October 2025
Celebrated Welsh rocker DAVE EDMUNDS topped the UK singles charts
with I HEAR YOU KNOCKING (more than 30 million streams on Spotify)
55 years ago, on 28 October 1970.
The song was written in 1955 by American musician and band
leader Dave Bartholomew who died in 2019, aged 100!
Edmunds also topped the Irish
charts and peaked at #4 in the US.
Knock here.
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The now 81-year-old rocker experienced a major cardiac arrest before being
revived with CPR. According to his wife Cici Edmunds, he is currently stable and
recovering.




