Favourite Singles of 1978:

1. Kinks Rock’n Roll Fantasy
2. Lindisfarne Run For Home
3. Flash & the Pan Down Among the Dead Men
4. Be Bop Deluxe Panic in the World
5. Rolling Stones Beast of Burden
6. John Paul Young Love is in the Air
7. Big Star Jesus Christ
8. Blondie Picture This
9. Blondie Denis
10. Dire Straits Sultans of Swing
11. Jethro Tull Moths
12. Tom Robinson Band Power in the Darkness
13. Bruce Springsteen Because the Night
14. Jam I Need You
15. Genesis Follow You, Follow Me
16. The Band Out of The Blue
17. Lindisfarne Brand New Day
18. Cockney Rebel Roll the Dice
19. Cockney Rebel Someone’s Coming
20. John Paul Young Lost in Your Love
21. Abba Eagle
22. Boomtown Rats Rat Trap
23. Blondie I’m Gonna Love You Too
24. Rick Nelson Gimme Me a Sign
25. Alex Chilton Bangkok
26. Lindisfarne Juke Box Gypsy
27. Cat Stevens Child for a Day
28. Rolling Stones Before they make me Run
29. John Paul Young The Day My Heart
30. Chris Bell I am The Cosmos
31. Steely Dan Here at the Western World
32. Big Star Kizza Me
33. Bob Dylan Changing of the Guards
34. Elvis Costello Chelsea
35. David Bowie Soul Love
36. Kinks Black Messiah
37. Kinks Live Life
38. Jam Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
39. Steely Dan Josie
40. Elvis Costello Talking in the Dark
41. Boomtown Rats Like Clockwork
42. Stranglers Nice’n Sleazy
43. Dusty Springfield A Love Like Yours
44. Small Faces Filthy Rich
45. Queen It’s Late
46. Tom Robinson Band Too Good to Be True
47. Bee Gees Night Fever
48. Bee Gees Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts' Club Band
49. Jethro Tull A Stich in Time
50. J J Cale I’m a Gypsy Man
51. Tom Robinson Band Up Against the Wall
52. Boomtown Rats She’s So Modern
53. Bruce Springsteen Promised Land
54. Dire Straits Wild West End
55. Blondie Presence, Dear
56. Jam David Watts
57. Elvis Costello Radio, Radio
58. Queen Spread Your Wings
59. Elvis Costello This Year’s Girl
60. Bob Dylan Is Your Love in Vain
61. Tom Petty Listen to Her Heart
62. Blondie Hanging on the Telephone
63. Bob Dylan Love Minus Zero
64. Steeleye Span Rag Doll
65. Stranglers Walk on By
66. Moody Blues Driftwood
67. Dodgers Love on the Rebound
68. Midnight Oil Run By Night
69. Neil Young Comes a Time
70. Dire Straits Water of Love
71. Grateful Dead Good Loving
72. Genesis Go West Young Man
73. Neil Young Hey Baby
74. Grateful Dead Passenger
75. Clash White Man in Hammersmith
76. Elton John Part Time Love
77. Genesis Many Too Many
78. Elton John Return to Paradise
79. Bob Dylan Baby Stop Crying
80. Clash Tommy Gun
81. Strawbs New Beginnings
82. Be Bop Deluxe Electrical Language
83. Beach Boys Peggy Sue
84. Beach Boys Kona Coast
85. Hollies Harlequin
86. Tom Petty I Need to Know
87. Clash Clash City Rockers
88. Who Who Are You
89. David Bowie Breaking Glass
90. David Bowie Beauty and the Beast
91. Flamin' Groovies Feel a Whole Lot Better
92. Elton John Ego
93. Rolling Stones Respectable
94. The Band Theme Last Waltz
95. Lindisfarne Woman
96. Donovan Sing My Song
97. Bee Gees Too Much Heaven
98. Lindisfarne Warm Feeling
99. Jam News of the World
100. Abba Take a Chance on Me



Bubbling under:

Eagles - Please Come Home For Christmas
Van Morrison – Wavelenght
Steely Dan – F.M.
Steely Dan – Deacon Blues
Abba – Summer Night City
Elvis Costello – Pump it Up
Elvis Costello – Stranger in the House
10CC – Reds in My Bed
Uriah Heep – Love or Nothing
Steeleye Span – Montrose

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