A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies…
There have been over 100 versions of the Chicago song “If You Leave Me Now”, but the classic was and is the original, which went to Number 1 in the USA (both singles and album charts, the album was Chicago X), Australia and in the UK, among others, in 1976. Chicago had many hits right […]
Stealers Wheel, the band formed in 1972 by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan from Paisley, Scotland, had several hits in the early to mid Seventies, in particular “Stuck In The Middle With You” and “Everyone’s Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine”. “Star” also reached the Top Thirty in both the US and the UK […]
In 1978 Gerry Rafferty wrote or at least released his hit song “Baker Street”, on his album “City To City” and as a single. Some time later, can’t remember if it was at the end of that year or on another visit to the UK a few years later when I was living in Germany, […]
Tags: Back Of My Mind, Baker Street, Busker, City To City, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty Baker Street, Half Years, Hd, Joe Egan, Kate Bush, Living In Germany, London Underground, Music, Music of the Seventies, National Express Bus, Occasions, Right Down The Line, Saxophone Solo, Saxophone Song, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Museum, South West Scotland, Stealers Wheel, Stereo Version, Stuck In The Middle With You, The Kick Inside, Tube Station, WheelI think it must have been about 1976 or 1977 when I bought an album by a Canadian band called Klaatu with, among others, the track “Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft” (which was covered by The Carpenters soon after it came out). It was rumoured that this was actually the Beatles in disguise, so to […]
Tags: 3:47 EST, California Jam, Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft, Doctor Marvello, Juke Box Hero, Klaatu, Michael Rennie, Music of the Seventies, Richard O'Brien, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Science Fiction/Double Feature, Seventies Rock Bands, Sub Rosa Subway, The Beatles, The Carpenters, The Day The Earth Stood Still, True Life HeroNew Zealander Max Merritt of Max Merritt and The Meteors has been in the music business a long time, but “Slipping Away”, released in 1976, is the only song I spontaneously connect with him. “Woh oh oh you’re slipping away from me…and it’s breaking me in two, watching you, slipping away” This is the promotional […]
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