Top 10 Songs ranks the top songs of the week and year 50 years ago, beginning in 1969. Charts have been compiled using global data since 2004.
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16 August 1973 -- Top 10 Songs of the Week -- Chart 1244 | |||
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Rank | Song | Artist | |
1 | Radar Love | Golden Earring | |
2 | Purple Heather | Van Morrison | |
3 | Warm Love | Van Morrison | |
4 | Freedom | Buffalo | |
5 | Painted Ladies | Ian Thomas | |
6 | Hard Nose The Highway | Van Morrison | |
7 | Midnight At The Oasis | Maria Muldaur | |
8 | Sunrise (Come My Way) | Buffalo | |
9 | 7 Bridges Road aka Seven Bridges Road | Ian Matthews | |
10 | Smokin' In The Boy's Room | Brownsville Station |
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A beautifully written song about mental illness – David Bowie has said that the song was written about his half brother, Terry Burns, who had schizophrenia and was an inmate of Cane Hill Hospital (featured on the original U.S.A. cover of “The Man Who Sold The World”). Bowie sings in "All The Madmen" - “I'd rather stay here with all the madmen, than perish with the sad men roaming free, and I'd rather play here with all the madmen, for I'm quite content they're all as sane as me”. At the time of this song’s release, mental illness was a taboo subject. “All The Madmen” features Mick Ronson’s guitar versatility, the infectious percussion of Mick Woodmansey, unusual voice effects, and bass by Tony Visconti. Ronson and Woodmansey would soon become members of the Spiders From Mars.
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Featured Kernel
A beautifully written song about mental illness – David Bowie has said that the song was written about his half brother, Terry Burns, who had schizophrenia and was an inmate of Cane Hill Hospital (featured on the original U.S.A. cover of “The Man Who Sold The World”). Bowie sings in "All The Madmen" - “I'd rather stay here with all the madmen, than perish with the sad men roaming free, and I'd rather play here with all the madmen, for I'm quite content they're all as sane as me”. At the time of this song’s release, mental illness was a taboo subject. “All The Madmen” features Mick Ronson’s guitar versatility, the infectious percussion of Mick Woodmansey, unusual voice effects, and bass by Tony Visconti. Ronson and Woodmansey would soon become members of the Spiders From Mars.