The marvelettes please mr. postman1/10/2024 “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” was a call-back to the only-just-dead psychedelic era, and Elton John got actual Beatle John Lennon to sing and play guitar on his cover. They got over on pure nostalgia, on no merit of their own. In both cases, the 1975 covers added absolutely nothing to the originals. Postman” as being Beatles covers, since the Beatles had done “Please Mr. Postman.” (In between those two songs, Barry Manilow hit #1 with “ Mandy,” a cover of a not-iconic song from 1971.) In fact, it’s possible to think of both “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” and “Please Mr. Two of the first three #1 hits from 1975 were covers of iconic ’60s songs: Elton John doing the Beatles’ “ Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” and the Carpenters doing the Marvelettes’ “ Please Mr. (We had a #1 hit from the fucking Jonas Brothers this year.) But nostalgia has never been stronger in pop music than it was at the beginning of 1975. Nostalgia has always been a force in pop music, and it probably always will be. And it’s also funny when you think about how the kids of the ’70s were absolutely not defending themselves against the ’60s. “The kids of today should defend themselves against the ’70s.” That was Eddie Vedder, singing on Mike Watt’s 1995 song “Against The ’70s.” The problem, as Watt and Vedder saw it, was that the ’90s were drowned in a certain sort of ’70s nostalgia that was choking off the power of the era’s youth culture: “It’s not reality / Just someone else’s sentimentality.” It’s funny to think of that song now, when we’ve been living with ’90s nostalgia for as long as we have. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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