The chapter titles are those of songs.
Just click the image to listen!
T
EARS OF A CLOWN
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
‘Make It Happen’ album track
1967
Single A-side
1970
T
he Beat
Single A-side
1979
THE BIGGEST ASPIDISTRA IN THE WORLD
Gracie Fields
78 RPM B-side
1941
T
HE SUN AIN’T GONNA SHINE ANY MORE
The Walker Brothers
Single A-side
1966
G
ET IT ON
T. Rex
Single A-side
1971
H
EAR MY TRAIN A-COMIN’
Jimi Hendrix
Hendrix recorded the song several times
between 1967-1970, but never to his satisfaction.
The 1968 documentary film ‘Experience’
features the only version released during his life.
E
VERYDAY IS LIKE SUNDAY
Morrissey
Single A-side
1988

OUT IN THE COUNTRY
Three Dog Night
Single A-side
1970
THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS
Joni Mitchell
Album title and track
1975
W
HEN THE TRAIN COMES BACK
Chicken Shack
Single A-side, ‘When The Train Gets Back’
1968
T
AKE ME BACK HOME
(Take Me Bak ‘Ome)
Slade
Single A-side
1972
A
LONE AGAIN (NATURALLY)
Gilbert O’Sullivan
Single A-side
1972
(I couldn’t stand Gilbert O’Sullivan, so the link
goes to an alternative song.)
L
ATE AFTERNOON, LAMARTINE STREET
In homage to Bill Naughton’s short story,
‘Late Night On Watling Street’
1959
Morrissey ‘Late Night, Maudlin Street’.
1988
G
OODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
Elton John
Single A-side
1973
LOUDMOUTH
The Ramones
Album track
1976
A
NARCHY IN THE U.K.
Sex Pistols
Single A-side
1976
N
EW RELIGION
Some Chicken
Singe A-side
1977
T
HE MAD PARADE
Sex Pistols
‘God Save The Queen’
Single A-side
1977
‘God save history
God save your mad parade
Lord God have mercy
All crimes are paid’
N
O PITY
999
Single A-side
1977
C
RY LIKE A BABY
The Box Tops
Single A-side
1968
Y
OU CAN’T PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND A MEMORY
Johnny Thunders
‘You Can’t Put Your Arms Round A Memory’
Single A-side
1978
S
OMETHING BETTER CHANGE
The Stranglers
Single double A-side with ‘Straighten Out’
1977
H
APPY HOUSE
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Single A-side
1980
H
ERE COMES A SATURDAY
Cowboys International
Album track from ‘The Original Sin’.
1979
D
OWN IN THE SUBWAY
Soft Cell
Single A-side
1984
I
N THROUGH THE OUT DOOR
Led Zeppelin
Album
1979
*Apart from their eponymous debut LP, Led Zep
never did it for me. So I’ve put ‘Good Times Bad Times’,
the opening track from that 1969 disc.
H
onourable mention:
‘Raspberry Beret’
PRINCE
Album track and single, 1985
“She walked in through the out door.”
B
URNING WITH OPTIMISM’S FLAMES
XTC
Album track, 1980
G
OING UNDERGROUND
The Jam
Single double A-side with ‘Dreams of Children’
1980
T
HE ART OF FALLING APART
Soft Cell
Album title and track
1983
T
HURSDAY NIGHT & SATURDAY MORNING
In homage to:
Alan Sillitoe’s novel
‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’
1962
The Specials ‘Friday Night And Saturday Morning’
1981
T
HIS FIRST NIGHT IN SODOM
In homage to:
Soft Cell
‘This Last Night In Sodom’
1984
(Featured track: L’Esqaualita)
M
ENERGY
Patrick Cowley
Album title and track
1981
S
ylvester
Single
1984
T
HE WORLD IS FULL OF MARRIED MEN
Bonnie Tyler
Single ‘Married Men’ from the film ‘The World Is Full Of Married Men’.
1979
F
RIENDS OF MINE
Buzzcocks
‘Spiral Scratch’ EP track
1977
I’
M THE ONE YOU WANT
Les Lee
Single
1985
Born Leslie Wunderman, Les Lee later found global chart success as Taylor Dayne.
The H
i-NRG remix by Ian Levine was released exclusively on Record Shack
in the UK
B
RAND NEW LOVER
Dead Or Alive
Single
1986
W
HAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS?
Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield
Single
1987