h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I totally agree.

But that would be a subjective opinion.

Some people think that The Bay City Rollers were rubbish! Can you imagine that!



PP

"Very Best of the Bay City Rollers entered the UK Albums Chart on release in 2004 at No. 11."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_City_Rollers

Once a group has issued a "Greatest hits" album, you can figure that its days as a timely attraction are mostly behind it. Sometimes a group's moment in the sun is so brief that many of the items on its greatest hits album were also on its *first* album...

Dave Gorman, a British comedian, did a great analysis of a greatest hits album, I can't remember the group but looked at the songs on an album and their positions and said something like it was really '3 greatest hits that got into the top ten, four other hits and a lot of filler'.

If you live in the UK it'll be repeated on 'Dave'* any second now…

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*A good comedy channel famed for the frequency of its repeats.

For some 60s groups, 2 hits was enough to still be touring now!

They are very popular here in Germany.

http://www.thetremeloes.co.uk/5.html

I bet the guy at Decca who auditioned both the Tremeloes and the Beatles, and then signed the Tremeloes is still kicking himself…

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The Trems did have 20+ top 40 hits. But the only original band member left is the drummer.

I saw them quite a lot of years ago and they were brilliant. I think there were 3 of the originals in the band at that time (or at least 3 who had played on some of the hits).

There are though many bands out there making a living on the back of not very many hits.

Coming to a concert hall near me soon:-

http://www.flyingmusic.com/our-shows/ss60/

Looks like great fun. I'm more likely to go to this than to a Girls Aloud gig.

PP.

Peter Noone was pretty good as a pirate who was born on Leap year Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance