My Seventies Music

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  • Lou Reed – “Take A Walk On The Wild Side”, “Vicious”, “Sweet Jane” And “Berlin”

    Lou Reed (of the Velvet Underground) was and still is a bit different, and “Take A Walk On The Wild Side” is no exception.

    Kinda weird, but sticks in your mind…. doop, de doop, de doop, de doop de doop, doop, de doop, de doop, de doop de doop, doooooop… :-).

    He did come to New Zealand in the Seventies, as far as I can remember I didn’t go.

    If I recall rightly, there may have been some controversy, as in he didn’t play!

    Anyway, this is the original, and many say the best, version of “Take A Walk On The Wild Side”:

    Another song from Lou Reed I quite like, despite the title, is “Vicious”:

    And here’s some live Lou Reed, “Sweet Jane” live in Paris in 1974 (I don’t actually know this, but it sounds cool; just read it was a Velvet Underground song):

    I just had a look in my record collection, and I actually have a Lou Reed album, “The Bells”, but it’s from 1979 and none of these songs are on it as they all came out in the early Seventies.

    Just read that it’s Lou Reed’s birthday in two days time, the day after mine, and the same day as a friend in Berlin.

    By coincidence, one of his albums was titled… “Berlin”.

    One of my favourite cities, in fact I nearly moved there in 1983.

    Come to think of it, why don’t I just include “Berlin” here as well…

    Auf Wiedersehen…
    Paul

  • 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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