Songs of the Day: One is highly reminiscent of David Bowie’s Fashion, the other has strains of glam rock-era Marc Bolan, but that’s can only mean praise, and this is vibrant, funky and beepingly brilliant work by the artist Jamie Stephen Hall
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Song of the Day: To mark yesterday's 40th anniversary since the hugely innovative and influential glam-rocker's untimely death, as an alternative to the Ride A White Swan breakthrough, a grittier, sexier hit (titled Bang a Gong in the US) from the 1971 album Electric Warrior. Bolan said it was inspired by Chuck Berry's song Little Queenie …
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Song of the Day: This wonderfully catchy east-west fusion indie hit nails the three-chord trick, and may be best know for its bosom reference, but it's also a warm tribute to a Bollywood film singer
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Song of the Day: Science meets pop with one of the space rock band's catchiest creations with a three-chord krautrock feel, here quirkily preformed in 1977 and presented by Marc Bolan
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