A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies…
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 […]
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 […]
Tags: Acoustic Guitar, Atlanta, Atlanta Blue, Atlanta Georgia, Blue Bayou, Cat Stevens, Coincidence, First Cut Is The Deepest, Going Back In Time, It Doesn't Matter Any More, Jose Feliciano, Linda Ronstadt, Lot, Midnight Special, Music of the Seventies, Powerful Voice, Rod Stewart, Seventies, Time Paul, When Will I Be Loved, You're No GoodSan Fancisco band Journey were very successful from the late Seventies on into the Eighties, with songs like “Wheel in the Sky”, “Lights”, “Lovin,’ Touchin,’ Squeezin’”, “Any Way You Want It”, “Who’s Crying Now” and “Don’t Stop Believin’”. I remember that in the part of southern Germany where I lived in the early 1980s (Franconia, […]
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 […]
New Zealand band Dragon, who relocated to Sydney, Australia in 1975 had a national hit in 1977 with “April Sun In Cuba”, which reached No. 2 in Australia. I don’t actually remember any of their other songs, but “Are You Old Enough?” reached No. 1 a year later. This is “April Sun In Cuba”: And […]
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