My Seventies Music

The Motors – “Airport”, “Forget About You” And “Dancing The Night Away”

In 1978 English band The Motors reached Number 4 on the UK charts with their single “Airport”. This was another song I got to know through it being played by the resident band at the Majestic Hotel in Palmerston North, New Zealand, when I was a student. The Motors reached Number 13 in the UK [...]

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Cheap Trick – “Surrender”, “Dream Police”, “Takin’ Me Back”, “On The Radio” and “Ghost Town”

The first Cheap Trick song I remember hearing, and one that has always stuck in my mind, was “Surrender”…

“Mommy’s all right, Daddy’s all right, they just seem a little weird, surrender, surrender, but don’t give yourself away”:

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