(L-R) Rob Davis, Dave Mount, Ray Stiles and Les Gray of Mud (Image: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns via Getty) Fifty years ago when glam rock was in full swing and everyone was running around in platform shoes, music was at the heart of it all. In the year that ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest which catapulted them to global fame, Dolly Parton left the Porter Wagner Show to focus on her solo career. With the music came fashion and while people are quick to berate the fashion choices of modern artists such as Harry Styles and Sam Smith, it was artists such as David Bowie and Mud's Rob Davis who were some of the first mainstream musicians to play with the concept of gender.
Read more: 16 school assembly hymns that were absolute belters Read more: Lost chocolate bars we miss from the shelves after they were axed for good With that in mind, lets take a look at ten of the all time classic songs which turn 50 this year. 1) Tiger Feet - Mud And that's neat, that's neat, that's neat, that's neat. I really love your tiger feet.
This one is definitely an earworm! When it burst onto the charts in 1974, it had great success spending four consecutive weeks at number one. It sold over 700,000 copies in the UK alone and over a million copies globally. It was also the best-selling single in Britain that year.
2) Devil Gate Drive - Suzi Quatro Devil Gate Drive was the second number one in a row for writing duo Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman who had also written Tiger Feet for Mud. It spent two .