Best of Top Of The Pops '71

The best Top Of The Poppers cover versions from the year of my birth, as you might expect (if you are familiar with this series at all) its a bit of a mixed bag.

"Maggie May" is pretty good and is probably the album's highlight though the cover singer sounds more like Joe Cocker than Rod Stewart. The mandolin work is also a bit limited compared to the original but a good song all the same. The sessions musicians also make a decent job of "My sweet lord".

"Knock three times" and "Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep" are also well done, though i am pretty unfamiliar with the original version of the latter song. None of the songs on here are actually that bad though some of them are not that true to the original (which of course was the TOTPers raison d'etre). On the evidence of this 1971 was a pretty decent year for pop and rock...