A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies…
Jon English has been a leading light of the Australian music scene for decades, but I mainly remember him for his version of “Turn The Page” (by Bob Seger) in 1975. I also remember him playing Judas Iscariot in the Australian version of the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” in the Seventies. Although Australian, English was […]
Two songs from JJ Cale that stand out for me are “Cocaine” and “After Midnight”, both of which have been most famously covered by Eric Clapton. In fact I was just reading that it was Clapton’s 1970 cover of “After Midnight”, at a time when Cale was “languishing in obscurity” and not doing very well […]
The driving beat and grinding vocals of The Guess Who track “American Woman” is something that sticks in your mind for a long time. I don’t remember when I first heard it, but I associate this and other Guess Who songs with the year 1975, and lying ill in bed at boarding school when everybody […]
Tags: American Woman, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, BTO, Burton Cummings, Garry Peterson, Guess Who, Hand Me Down World, Jim Kale, Kurt Winter, Laughing, Music of the Seventies, No Sugar/New Mother Nature, No Time, Randy Bachman, Runnin' Back To Saskatoon, Seems Like I Can't Live With You But I Can't Live Without You, Seventies Rock Bands, Share The Land, The Guess Who, These EyesThe Steve Miller Band album “Fly Like An Eagle” was released in 1976 and reached No. 3 in the US album charts, with the single of the same name hitting No. 2 in 1977. Two other tracks from the album also charted, “Take The Money And Run” at No. 11 in 1976, and “Rock’n Me” […]
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, Wheel
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