April 5th, 2010 by Paul
I’ll be quite honest – “Love Is In The Air” by John Paul Young used to really get on my nerves! But as I suppose it can be considered part of the legacy of the Seventies – it was a disco hit in 1977-1978 – I thought I’d include it here. John Paul Young was […]
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April 4th, 2010 by Paul
As I mentioned previously, British (actually Northern Irish) rocker and guitar legend Gary Moore has made the Free track “Wishing Well” very much his own, and in fact, until the other day, I always thought he wrote it! Here is his studio version of “Wishing Well” This is Gary Moore playing “Wishing Well” live in […]
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April 3rd, 2010 by Paul
Three Seventies songs from Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot stick in my mind – “If You Could Read My Mind”, “Sundown” and “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”. “If You Could Read My Mind”, written after his divorce, reached No. 1 in Canada and the 5th spot in the USA. Here is the original: And […]
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April 2nd, 2010 by Paul
Free was a UK band that had a strong influence on many other bands, with songs like “All Right Now” and “Wishing Well” being covered numerous times by many great musicians. These have included Gary Moore as well as later acts that singer and writer Paul Rodgers and other band members went on to play […]
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April 1st, 2010 by Paul
I really only connect one song with Boston, and that’s “More Than A Feeling”, which has definitely stuck in my mind. Of course they had other singles in the Seventies, like “Foreplay/Long Time”, “Don’t Look Back”, “A Man I’ll Never Be” and “Feelin’ Satisfied” – I just don’t remember any of them. The debut album […]
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