Their seminal cover of Dandy Livingstone’s 1967 rocksteady track showed they could skank along gaily with the most light-hearted of them, and as one of the key tracks on their 1979 debut album, this was a turning point for the blooming 2Tone label. "Night Fever" - Bee Gees Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: March 18, 1978, 9. Criteria: This list is limited to pop songs by artists who would not be eligible for our rock or country decade lists (so artists such as Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Neil Diamond, Anne Murray, and Kenny Rogers are not included).They are ranked by initial and lasting popularity, along with acclaim within traditional pop music circles.

After the euphoric highs of this song, Peter Perrett did the cold turkey so you didn’t have to, while fellow drug enthusiasts The Libertines also did a notable cover of the track several decades later. The bassline that isn’t really a bassline, more a funky workout on Stevie Wonder’s fat-sounding Hohner clavinet. In New York there was the CBGBs scene of unattainable, insouciant cool.

In London there was punk, with The Sex Pistols and The Clash leading a tribe of pierced, leather-clad young upstarts that stuck two fingers up to the establishment. Check out the Spotify playlist of the top 20 below and read on to see when each hit peaked. Instead, bassist Colin Moulding wrote of his dad attempting to make his son get his “hair cut and stay on at school”. Goodness knows how Joni must be feeling now. A piano chanson (complete with Brian May’s jaw dropping guitar solo) leaps gleefully into a full blown operatic parody, and the results are legendary. Covered rather more politely by Hot Chip for the 2009 War Child album. Here are 15 top songs of the 70s.

Glam Rock was as much about the image as about the music. It’s easy to project posthumous meaning onto a track, but ‘Pink Moon’ sounds like a warning about what’s to come. 1979.

And get off your rant.

Potograth Ringo Starr. These are by far the biggest tracks of the 70s – since when did Al Green/Staple Singers sell more than any of the ones above!!! One of the seeds from which all of punk rock would grow thereafter. If you enjoyed listening to this one, maybe you will like: 1.

Garrett's "I was Made for Dancing" reached #10 on the US 70s pop music charts, Osmond had many top ten hits both solo and with his brothers in the Osmonds, and Cassidy's "Da Doo Ron Run" went all the way to number one in 1977.

‘I Feel Love’ is one of the earliest purely synthetic recordings, the very first house record and the future in an orgasmic space-age nutshell.

It’s as dizzy and displaced as it should be, drifting through guitar solos and a pretty chorus before winding up in the Scissor Sisters’ back pocket.

"How Deep Is Your Love" - Bee Gees Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: December 24, 1977, 5. Classic Pop Music Hits from Sixties & Seventies. In which the former Johnny Rotten did the unthinkable at the time and reinvented himself in an outfit just as compelling as the Sex Pistols. This is a list of the top 100 songs of the 1970s in the United States, based exclusively on chart performance on the Billboard Hot 100 from 1970-1979.

A peerless piece of disco drama that almost sent a career into parody – but hey, they sure got rich.

Rod the Mod’s first solo No.1 wasn’t even supposed to be an A-side but it only took a fortnight for it to elbow ‘Reason To Believe’ off the front of the disc. If you missed the top 20 from the '60s, make sure to read that here.

No. All the rest of the song’s swinging soul power is down to Knight’s convincing devotion to a man whose dreams of LA stardom have gone tits up, and Jim Weatherly’s less-is-more lyric: “I’d rather live in his world than live without him in mine“.

Or was it?

The single went to No.2 in the States, the album to the top of NME’s all-time albums list in 1985.