My Seventies Music

Category: Seventies Soft Music

  • Kate Bush – “Wuthering Heights”

    Cover of Kate Bush debut album "The Kick Inside" Kate Bush suddenly entered my consciousness – and presumably that of many others – in February of 1978 with her debut hit “Wuthering Heights”.

    I was staying with my grandmother in Brighton, England, on my way back from Germany to New Zealand to finish my degree when I heard this magical voice on British radio, and I just had to get the album when I got back home (“The Kick Inside” – it had only been released a few days earlier).

    Here’s the original, “white dress” version:

    And the less surreal (visually at least) “red dress” version:

    Kate Bush was “discovered” by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, so her first album was bound to be a masterpiece technically at least.

    Artistically it has a great deal going for it too, and I still find every song on the album worth listening to again and again. (I’ll find a few more tracks from this and later albums for you to listen to some time in the future.)

    Meanwhile I just found this live clip from 1978 with Kate accompanying herself on the piano:

    Don’t you just love those eyes…

    I don’t know about you, but I have always found there is something intensely feline about Kate Bush – you almost expect her to turn into a cat in some of the videos.

    Well, that’s enough for now, watch out for more another time.

    Paul

  • The Eagles – “Ol’ 55” and “Desperado” (and “Already Gone”)

    I first heard “Ol’ 55” from the Eagles in 1975 (I only found out just now, 35 years later, that it was actually written by Tom Waits…)

    It was on an early album before they really took off and became mainstream after Joe Walsh joined them.

    Here’s a live version from 1974:

    And, from the same album, “Desperado”:

    Let me know how you like them!

    Paul

    But wait, there’s more…

    Sorry, I just couldn’t resist another one, also from this album – “Already Gone”:

    I’m outta here (already gone… see me… I’m gone…really…)

  • My Seventies Music – Welcome!

    Welcome to My Seventies Music – an ongoing and random selection of videos of great rock music from the 1970s – “My Seventies Music” – together with any commentary, reviews, associated information and anything else that seems relevant at the time.

    Or not…

    Anyway, to start the ball rolling, just for the fun of it, let’s begin with the letter “A” for “America”, and one of their big hits, “Don’t Cross The River”.

    I saw America live in the mid to late Seventies (don’t remember exactly when…) in Wellington, New Zealand.

    I do remember them saying the towels at the hotel were so fluffy they could hardly fit them in their suitcases. 🙂

    Incidentally, while this blog is dedicated to music of the Seventies, occasionally you’ll see and hear live versions recorded in later years, and sometimes I’ll refer to bands or soloists I actually saw after the Seventies, but those were the years when they first made their name.

    I actually did manage to see quite a number of acts in the Seventies themselves, as a student in New Zealand, and also a few while travelling around the UK and Europe in 1977/78 and again in 1978/79 (long summer vacation in New Zealand, winter in Europe).

    From 1980 onwards the concerts I went to were almost all in Germany, where I lived until 2004, when I moved to Scotland.

    Anyway, I hope you enjoy “Don’t Cross The River” from “America” as much as I do!

    Thanks for dropping by,

    Paul

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