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Now, courtesy NME and Melody Maker, the last week they and BMRB all agreed Tubeway Army's number was the top: (It was in the middle of this period that I began amassing my vast 45 collection, bit by bit, all second-hand, almost all original releases.) A few entries from the side of the pond from which I type this, in what is left of this year (and this decade), will be evidentiary of what would be offered to Americans over the next few years. I should note that in the wake of the downfall of disco in this summer, the US music charts entered a period of about three years that, in its own way, was every bit as dreary and dank and fallow and bland as the UK charts had been between the 1974 fall of glam and the emergence of punk in the 1976-77 period, not to emerge from this dead-end rut until about a year or two after the advent of a pioneering and influential cable music video channel. He hadn't charted in the UK since 1974 - and never would again. It also got to #32 in Cash Box and #33 in Record World. The last week "Are 'Friends' Electric?" was Number One on the UK chart, this uber-lethargic (to say the least) cover of The Drifters' 1962 hit reached its US Billboard peak of #21 where it stayed for another week. (Please.) Two years before, he turned Jimmy Jones' 1960 classic "Handy Man" into a plodding snooze-fest now it was "Up On The Roof's" turn to be turned by him (and his producer/manager, Peter Asher of Peter And Gordon fame) into more music to go to sleep by: Nor was it Art Garfunkel who was butchering old songs and turning them into pedestrian mush for the "soft rock" market.