Pyjamarama – Roxy Music

This track by Roxy Music spent three weeks in the UK top 10 in 1973.

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Forty years ago this week, Pyjamarama by Roxy Music was at its highest position of number 10 in the UK singles chart for the third and final week. It had entered the top 40 six weeks previously at number 31. After falling from its peak position, the song spent four more weeks in the lower top 40 and then left the chart.

Pyjamarama was released on the Island record label. It was the second of ten UK top 10 hits for Roxy Music.

More music from Roxy Music

 

UK singles chart for the week ending 28 April 1973

1. Tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree – Dawn featuring Tony Orlando

2. Hello! Hello! I’m back again – Gary Glitter

3. Get down – Gilbert O’Sullivan

4. I’m a clown / Some kind of a summer – David Cassidy

5. Tweedle dee – Little Jimmy Osmond

6. All because of you – Geordie

7. Drive in Saturday – David Bowie

8. The twelfth of never – Donny Osmond

9. My love – Paul McCartney and Wings

10. Pyjamarama – Roxy Music