FogBlueInSanFran
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New headline: "One Hit Wonder Band Enters Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, And Is Worth Half A Billion USD Collectively"
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Led Zeppelin
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New headline: "One Hit Wonder Band Enters Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, And Is Worth Half A Billion USD Collectively"
Bill Walker
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I was staggered to find out they only ever released one song in UK charts. I think it was Whole lot of love and years after it was released in the US. 1997. Strange one that. Mind you, when you sold as many albums as they did then who needed singles . Led Zeppelin 2 was my fav.
The UK mainstream radio stations didnt play rock music like Led Zep, Sabbath etc like they did in the States so what would be the point in releasing singles that never got played on the radio, UK mainstream radio was all based around pop.
BimboBob
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Makes you wonder how Iron Maiden kept getting on TOTP.The UK mainstream radio stations didnt play rock music like Led Zep, Sabbath etc like they did in the States so what would be the point in releasing singles that never got played on the radio, UK mainstream radio was all based around pop.
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A one hit wonder with 50 Trillion album sales though ;-)That would make them a One-Hit Wonder, based on some of the daft logic of certain posters on the thread of same name.
Bill Walker
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18 UK hits in the 80sMakes you wonder how Iron Maiden kept getting on TOTP.
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BimboBob
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But, as you suggest, they didn't get airplay, how?18 UK hits in the 80s
Bill Walker
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I was mainly talking about the 70sBut, as you suggest, they didn't get airplay, how?
I don't know about UK radio in the 80s as I wasn't there, but back in the 70s classic rock wasn't played on mainstream radio.
OB1
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Madness I know but the term 1 hit wonder is just that. 1 top 40 chart single. Never to be heard of again. Led who?
Err, where exactly is the official definition of one hit wonder?
Wikipedia reckons a one hit wonder is "any entity that achieves mainstream popularity, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success. The term is most commonly used in regard to music performers with only one top-40 hit single that overshadows their other work. Sometimes, artists dubbed "one-hit wonders" in a particular country have had great success in other countries."
Led Zep are not known to the general public for just one top 40 hit; nor are sundry other bands appearing on that other thread and I commented on that absurdity there.
Zep are not one hit wonders nor are Blue Oyster Cult and many other bands of their ilk.
OB1
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I was mainly talking about the 70s
I don't know about UK radio in the 80s as I wasn't there, but back in the 70s classic rock wasn't played on mainstream radio.
Tommy Vance turns in his grave ;-(