Bravo Charts of 9 October 1975. Tornero… oh, I loved that song.
1975
Juliane Werding 1975
German singer Juliane Werding on a single-page poster in Bravo of 9 January 1975.
I don’t often feature German singers, and this poster goes up because I think it looks good. Werding had scored a million-selling hit in 1972 as a teenager with Am Tag, als Conny Kramer starb, a German version of “The Day They Drive Old Dixie Down” (her take was an anti-drug song, apparently based on the overdose of a friend). For a while she had no hits, as she finished her schooling. In late 1975 she struck gold with a rather good German country song, “Wenn du denkst, du denkst, dann denkst du nur, du denkst”. She fell out with her producer and for a while had no hits.
She established herself as a regular presence in the charts in the 1980s, at first with German covers of songs by Sally Oldfield and Nik Kershaw. She retired in 2009 to work as a healing practitioner.
Sweet 1975
Sweet on a double-page poster in Bravo of 9 January 1975.
Brian, Steve (ah-ha), Mick (yeah), Andy (all right) were the winners of Bravo’s poll for Favourite Group of 1974, the year in which they had a string of hits, the biggest being “Teenage Rampage”
ABBA 1975
ABBA, in flamboyant dress (what is Björn wearing???), on a single-page poster in Bravo of 9 January 1975. They had a couple of hits in West Germany after Waterloo, but nobody could have known yet just how massive they’d become over the next year.
The Eurovision Song Contest winners finished runners-up in Bravo’s poll for Favourite Group of 1974. The winner comes tomorrow. Can you guess who it is?
The Osmonds 1975
The Osmonds on a single-page poster in Bravo of 9 January 1975.
The toothy Mormons finished third in Bravo’s poll for Favourite Group of 1974. The runners-up follow tomorrow, and the winner the day after. Fancy a guess?
Bravo Charts 9 Jan 1975
The Bravo charts in the issue of 9 January 1975.
In my folder of “Hits from 1975 that I play for nostalgic reasons because I actually remember them from the time”, there are only five.
The next three posts count down the winners of Bravo’s poll for Favourite Group of 1974.
Oliver Tobias 1975
British actor Oliver Tobias pouts ferociously on a centre-spread poster in Bravo of 29 January 1975.
Tobias had won fame for his role as Arthur in the TV series Arthur of the Britons and as the title character in Luke’s Kingdom. Later in his career, the Swiss-born actor did much of his work on German TV.
Susan Dey 1975
Susan Dey on a centre-spread poster in Bravo of 29 January 1975. She was hugely popular due to her role as Laurie in The Partridge Family, which was still running on German TV at the time.
Queen 1975
Queen on a back-page poster in Bravo of 29 January 1975.
The caption notes that 1975 will be the breakthrough year for Queen, who have already made a start with their hit “Killer Queen”. They went on to have a fair hit with “Now I’m Here”, but the big breakthrough would come in late 1975/early 1976 with “Bohemian Rhapsody”.
Elvis Presley 1975
Elvis Presley on a centre-spread poster in Bravo of 29 January 1975.
Elvis was about to have a minor hit in West-Germany with “Promised Land”.
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