Glam / 7t's
2002
The Singles Collection
About This Album
With just five U.K. Top 30 singles to his name, Barry Blue would seem a strange candidate for a CD-sized greatest-hits collection -- although hits themselves have never been the main prerogative of the Singles Collection series. Rather, this set rounds up all of the 45s that Blue, already established among the most successful producers and songwriters of the glam era, released under his own name during the mid- to late '70s. That this tally naturally includes the two songs for which record buyers will forever remember him is simply a bonus.

"Dancing (On a Saturday Night)" is one of those records whose virtues are impossible to over-value, a pulsating dance number that so revitalized what was fast becoming a somewhat stale-by-numbers glam scene that, for at least another year, the whole shebang was all but reborn. Blue himself certainly understood the record's importance, restating all of its virtues for the follow-up, "Do You Wanna Dance"; indeed, for a few months in 1974, Blue was inescapable, a broadly grinning, metallic-blue-clad vision who seemingly appeared on every TV show you switched on. If he'd kept up the same pace over subsequent releases, he really could have been the next Gary Glitter.
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