A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies…
There have been over 100 versions of the Chicago song “If You Leave Me Now”, but the classic was and is the original, which went to Number 1 in the USA (both singles and album charts, the album was Chicago X), Australia and in the UK, among others, in 1976. Chicago had many hits right […]
New Zealand band Dragon, who relocated to Sydney, Australia in 1975 had a national hit in 1977 with “April Sun In Cuba”, which reached No. 2 in Australia. I don’t actually remember any of their other songs, but “Are You Old Enough?” reached No. 1 a year later. This is “April Sun In Cuba”: And […]
Looking for a present for my sister in the late Seventies, I bought her the 1978 The Cars album, aptly titled “The Cars”, so I could also listen to tracks like “Just What I Needed”, “My Best Friend’s Girl” and “Good Times Roll”, which I had heard covered live by resident band Snatch at the […]
Tags: Benjamin Orr, Drive, Good Times Roll, Heartbeat City, Just What I Needed, Live Aid, Majestic Hotel, Music of the Seventies, My Best Friends Girl, New Wave, Palmerston North, Panorama, Ric Ocasek, Seventies Rock Bands, Shake It Up, Since You're Gone, Snatch, The Cars, The Pogues, Touch And GoBritish New Wave band Ultravox had a hit in 1980 with “Vienna”, but except for the singing of the title, to quote the song itself, “this means nothing to me”. What I do recognise, however, is “Slow Motion”, from their 1978 album “Systems Of Romance”, which I have. I haven’t played it for ages, but […]
Stealers Wheel, the band formed in 1972 by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan from Paisley, Scotland, had several hits in the early to mid Seventies, in particular “Stuck In The Middle With You” and “Everyone’s Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine”. “Star” also reached the Top Thirty in both the US and the UK […]
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