The Top Ten Synth tracks of all time

 

In the early 1970s it was only the Prog Rock Band elite ( ie Queen, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes etc ) that could afford the synthesiser. The size of a modest detached house, they were too expensive for mere mortals.As prices came down and championed by Giorgio Moroder and Brian Eno ( on Donna Summer's 1977 "I Feel Love" and David Bowie's "Heroes" the following year ) the "synth" became more accessible to the "musical masses".From 1979 the "synth" became commonplace and a staple diet in pop music throughout the 1980s. The Petshop Boys have taken it through the following two decades, with great success.