Seventies Female Soloists | My Seventies Music

Pat Benetar – “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”, “I Need A Lover”, “If You Think You Know How to Love Me”, “Heartbreaker”, “Love Is A Battlefield” and “We Belong”

by Paul

Pat Benetar had her breakthrough right at the end of the Seventies, with a string of singles from her October 1979 album “In The Heat Of The Night”, particularly “I Need a Lover”, “If You Think You Know How to Love Me” and “Heartbreaker”, the latter reaching No. 23 in the U.S. So she’s “only […]

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Linda Ronstadt – “When Will I Be Loved”, “You’re No Good”, “Blue Bayou”, “It Doesn’t Matter Any More” and “First Cut Is The Deepest”

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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Renee Geyer – “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right”, “It’s A Man’s World”, “Stares And Whispers”, “Heading In The Right Direction”, “Do You Know What I Mean” and “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”

by Paul

On a late January 1980 night at an open air festival in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand, in the southern summer heat, I heard Australian blues and soul singer Renee Geyer singing “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right”. It has stuck in my mind ever since. I could only find a couple […]

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Vicky Leandros – “Après Toi” and “Come What May”

by Paul

And now for something completely different… In 1972 Vicky Leandros had a European hit with “Après Toi” (After You), and I went on my first overseas trip from New Zealand, to the French Pacific colony of New Caledonia. All the time we were in Nouméa, its capital, we heard the song “Après Toi” again and […]

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Carly Simon – “You’re So Vain”, “The Right Thing To Do”, “Nobody Does It Better”, “Jesse”, “Haven’t Got Time For The Pain”, “Anticipation” and “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be”

by Paul

I was thinking that “You’re So Vain”, from 1972, was the only song by Carly Simon song I knew. I soon found there were a number of others. At the time everyone was trying to work out who the song was about. As it turns out, she now says it was the result of various […]

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