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November 6th 2026
2LP, Standard Vinyl
A vinyl only two album set featuring the revered pop culture pundit Jon Savage's choice of singles from a year that culminated in the release of the first punk 45s. Here's Jon himself with the background: "OK, here's the situation. The Top 10 best-selling (UK) singles of 1976 included just one banger - Abba's ‘Dancing Queen’ - and a variety of horrors.
I was 22/23 at the time. Old enough to have grown up with a fabulous, vibrant pop arena in the 60s, right through to the mid-70s when glam began to lose power, but young enough to still want an energetic, exciting teenage culture. Then, in April, imported from the USA, came the Ramones - a jump cut into the present, future, now. For me the year was broken into two halves: before and after. Before, I was listening to and looking for anything that was not bland. After April, it was just the Ramones, and records that fitted the accelerant template, or that just sounded rough and aggressive. The other soundtrack was dub reggae, the records I heard on the streets in Ladbroke Grove or booming out over sound systems at that year's carnival. Some mainstream hits got through, plus some weird disco records. For this compilation, same rules as usual: singles only, roughly chronological by UK release dates. Slight liberties have been taken with Roxy Music and Buzzcocks, but both existed in some real form during 1976. As usual, around two-thirds are records I listened to at the time and that meant something to me, while the remainder I found more recently".
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