Volume 49 (SHM 925) - December 1975
Tracks:
Side 1
Side 2
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Sleeve notes:
It’s Poperific! It’s Singsational! It’s TOP OF THE POPS Volume 49… what else? Once again those groovy gentlemen (and ladies) at Pickwick have got together another great volume of the World’s most popular L.P., packed with the swingiest, singiest twelve chart-embracing hits. Wanta know how they select up-to-the-minute music? Well, sitting on the desk in the King of Pickwick’s office is a giant Crystal-ball that tells all - helped a little by the Pickwick people, of course. Yes, Pickwick can foresee the Music scene, present and future, even before the charts do, sometimes! |
Comments: This album features the most famous Top of the Pops cut: the legendary version of "Bohemian Rhapsody". Mojo (Issue 82, September 2000): "It took Queen almost three weeks and 180 vocal overdubs. Tony Rivers needed one night. Bruce Baxter: 'Kenny Everett spliced them together, the original and ours, played it on the radio and said, "I defy anyone to tell me which one they’re listening to".' The Pops series at its best." This recording was even released as a single in Italy! It was billed as by a group called Green Fly (see link below).
Regular cover star Susy Shaw returns for the sleeve of volume 49, her second in three.
Regular cover star Susy Shaw returns for the sleeve of volume 49, her second in three.