Album · Motors
1 by Motors
1 is an album by Motors, released in 1977. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Dancing the Night Away”, on 3 lists and voted number one once.
1, the debut album from London's Motors, came out on Virgin in October 1977, and it's what happens when a couple of Ducks Deluxe graduates decide pub rock should hit harder. Nick Garvey and Andy McMaster, who handled bass, keyboards and vocals, put the band together that year with drummer Ricky Slaughter, and Bram Tchaikovsky came in on guitar in May after Rob Hendry left.
Mutt Lange produced, and the result is beefy, melodic rock with a new-wave jolt: tough guitars, sharp hooks and choruses that swing for the rafters. "Dancing the Night Away" is the big, swaggering centerpiece, and it went out as a single alongside "Be What You Gotta Be" and "Cold Love". Cheap Trick thought enough of it to cover "Dancing the Night Away" on Next Position Please in 1983.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from 1 on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dancing the Night Away | 3 | #1 | 1 | 1977–2026 | |
| 2 | Emergency | 1 | #18 | – | 1977 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.