page_title: Music of Sussex
section_title: 1970s
hierarchical_section_title: Music of Sussex / Rock and popular music / 1970s
caption_attribution_description: Leo Sayer as Pierrot, perfoming his song The Show Must Go On in AVRO's TopPop (Dutch television show) in 1974
context_page_description: The historic county of Sussex in southern England has a rich musical heritage that encompasses the genres of folk, classical and rock and popular music amongst others. With the unbroken survival of its indigenous music, Sussex was at the forefront of the English folk music revivals of the 19th and 20th centuries. Many classical composers have found inspiration in Sussex, and the county continues to have a thriving musical scene across the musical genres. In Sussex by the Sea, the county has its own unofficial anthem.
  Perhaps the first known musical instrument from Sussex is the so-called 'Sussex horn', a variant of the Bronze Age Irish horn. Dating from around 900BC this instrument was found in the late 18th century at the bottom of a well in Battle.
context_section_description: The 1970s were significant in Sussex as a field outside Worthing hosted Phun City, the UK's first large-scale free music festival. The Brighton Dome hosted the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, won by the Swedish group ABBA for their song "Waterloo", which propelled them to worldwide fame. The Cure formed in Crawley, beginning their long career in gothic indie rock.  October 1976 saw Leo Sayer's song "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" reach number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it his first number-one single in United States, also winning a Grammy Award for the song in 1978 in the category Best R&B Song.  Sayer's first UK number one followed in 1977 for his version of "When I Need You"
  1979 saw the release of One Step Beyond..., the debut album of Madness, a band formed in London by the Hastings-born singer-songwriter Suggs (real name Graham McPherson).
caption: Leo Sayer performing on Dutch television in 1974
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