by Paul
Linda Ronstadt was a name you heard a lot in the Seventies, her biggest hits included “When Will I Be Loved”, “You’re No Good” and “Blue Bayou”. By coincidence, these are just about the only ones of her many songs I can recall… I found a couple more that I recognise though, but I can’t […]
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by Paul
San Fancisco band Journey were very successful from the late Seventies on into the Eighties, with songs like “Wheel in the Sky”, “Lights”, “Lovin,’ Touchin,’ Squeezin’”, “Any Way You Want It”, “Who’s Crying Now” and “Don’t Stop Believin’”. I remember that in the part of southern Germany where I lived in the early 1980s (Franconia, […]
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by Paul
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 […]
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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 […]
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by Paul
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 […]
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