A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies...

The Guess Who – “American Woman”, “No Sugar”/”New Mother Nature”, “Hand Me Down World”, “Runnin’ Back To Saskatoon”, “Share The Land”, “Seems Like I Can’t Live With You, But I Can’t Live Without You”, “Laughing”, “These Eyes” and “No Time”

by Paul

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 […]

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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 Eyes

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Steve Miller Band – “Fly Like An Eagle”, “The Joker”, “Take The Money And Run”, “Rock’n Me” and “Jet Airliner”

by Paul

The 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” […]

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Tags: Book Of Dreams, Fly Like An Eagle, Jet Airliner, Music of the Seventies, Rock'n Me, Seventies Rock Bands, Steve Miller Band, Take The Money And Run, The Joker

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Gerry Rafferty – “Baker Street” and “Right Down The Line”

by Paul

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, […]

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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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Klaatu – “Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft”, “Sub Rosa Subway”, “Doctor Marvello”, “California Jam” and “True Life Hero”

by Paul

I 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 […]

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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 Hero

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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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