A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies…
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 […]
In 1974 while visiting my older brother in Invercargill at the very bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, I bought the Ringo Starr album “Ringo”, featuring the single “Photograph”, which went to No. 1 in America. Another song from the album, also a Number 1 hit in the USA, was “You’re Sixteen”. I also rather […]
Tags: All Star, Beatles, Beatles George Harrison, Billy Preston, Dave Jordan, George Harrison, Invercargill, John Entwistle, Keyboards, Massey University, Music of the Seventies, New Zealand, Number 1, Oine, Palmerston North, Palmerston North New Zealand, Paul McCartney, Photograph, Richard Perry, Ringo, Ringo Star, Ringo Starr, Ringo Starr & His All-Star Band, Rotogravure, S South, Six O'Clock, Son Zak, Star Band, The Beatles, The Who, You're Sixteen, Zak StarkeyIn April 1979 I attended a live concert of reggae musicians Bob Marley and The Wailers that was part of the Babylon By Bus Tour, featuring songs like “Positive Vibration”, “I Shot The Sheriff”, “No Woman, No Cry”, “Lively Up Yourself”, “Is This Love?”, “Get Up, Stand Up” and “Exodus”. It was an afternoon concert […]
Tags: Afternoon Concert, Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper Welcome To My Nightmare, Auckland, Auckland New Zealand, Babylon By Bus, Bob Marley, Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bus Tour, Buses, Crowds, David Bowie, Entrance Area, Exodus, Get Up Stand Up, Graduates, I Shot The Sheriff, Is This Love?, Lively Up Yourself, Massey University, Music of the Seventies, New Zealand, New Zealand Australia, No Woman No Cry, Palmerston North, Positive Vibration, Rastaman Vibration, reggae, Reggae Musicians, Rude Jokes, Seventies Rock Bands, Welcome To My Nightmare, Western Springs StadiumThe Scavengers were one of the first New Zealand punk bands in the late Seventies (along with The Suburban Reptiles), most well known locally for their songs “Mysterex” and “True Love”. The band was actually formed pre-punk in the mid Seventies by graphic design students at the Auckland Technical Institute and renamed The Scavengers in […]
Tags: AK79, Auckland Technical Institute, Band Member, Brendan Perry, Compilation Album, Dogs In Space, Graphic Design Students, Marching Girls, Massey Univerity, Massey University, Melbourne Australia, Mid Seventies, Music of the Seventies, Mysterex, Palmerston North, Punk Bands, Punk Movement, Punk Trio, Scavengers, Seventies Rock Bands, Sound Quality, Student Orientation, Suburban Reptiles, The Scavengers, True Love, Two Girls, Video QualityAt the very end of the Seventies, late 1979, I remember Englishman Gary Numan singing “Cars”, from his album “The Pleasure Principle”. In fact, whenever I hear it or think of Gary Numan or “Cars”, it reminds me of being in not a car but a Transit van, at 4 o’clock in the morning. We […]
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