The pre-Beatles era comes to a miserable end… (His Master’s Voice)   Released: 1962 Topped the chart: 25 November 1962 (for 2 weeks) 23...

A much less illuminating Shadows sequel… (Columbia EMI) Released: October 1962 Topped the chart: 21st October 1962 (for 3 weeks)...

And now for something completely different…JAZZ! (Pye Golden Guinea) Released: August 1962 Topped the chart: 16th September 1962 (for 1...

The King’s interregnum starts here… (RCA) Released: May 18th 1962 Topped the Chart: 22nd July 1962 (for 5 weeks) 2nd September 1962 (for...

Sometimes it all just…clicks… (Philips) Released: October 1961 Topped the Chart: 17th June 1962 (for 5 weeks) 26th August 1962 (for 1...

Cliff heads to the movies, borrowing his hero’s songwriters in the process… (Columbia EMI) Released: 15th December 1961 Topped the Chart:...

The King of Rock n Roll…now with added ukulele! (RCA) Released: 20th October 1961 Topped the Chart: 31st December 1961 (for 1 week)...

Yet more from bad taste’s stranglehold over light entertainment… (His Master’s Voice) Released: 1961 Topped the chart: 11th November 1961...

More rice cake than birthday cake… (Columbia EMI) Released: 14th October 1961 Topped the Chart: 29th October 1961 (for 1 week) 1 week...

Stepping out of the Shadows of Cliff and pointing the way to the future… (Columbia EMI) Released: September 1961 Topped the Chart:...

A shameful reminder of just how heavy light entertainment can be… (His Master’s Voice) Topped the Chart: 23rd July 1961 (for 4 weeks)...

Elvis is in the army…again! Topped the Chart: 8th January 1961 (for 7 weeks) 5th March 1961 (for 3 weeks) 2nd April 1961 (for 12 weeks)...

Pye Golden Guinea   Taxi drivers may question the geography of that title… Topped the Chart: 4th September 1960 (for five weeks) Five...

Back in action! Back in…sensible tops? Topped the Chart: 24th July 1960 (for 1 week) 1 week total   As well as politics, a week used to...

An explosion that burned brightly but briefly… Topped the chart: 6th March 1960 (for 1 week) 1 week total   “We don’t know, it may be...

At the start of the 60s, a strange brew of records found themselves at number one…was rock n roll dead? As we’ll find in the decades...

Saying Bali-Bye-Bye to the 1950s… Topped the chart: 2nd November 1958 (for 70 weeks) 13th March 1960 (for 19 weeks) 31st July 1960 (for 5...

Creole? Certainly. King? Well... Topped the charts: 14th September 1958 (for 7 weeks) 7 weeks total   Two years into Elvis’ global...

Fair’s more than fair as musicals return to the chart… Topped the charts: 4th May 1958 (for 19 weeks) 19 weeks total   Easy as it is to...

Steele ain’t stainless… Topped the charts: 20th April 1958 (for two weeks) Two weeks total   Featuring a scant 19 minutes of music across...