by Paul
In the Seventies I used to listen to Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band quite a lot, songs such as “Still The Same” come to mind, “Night Moves”, “Main Street”, “Against The Wind”, “We’ve Got Tonight” or “Old Time Rock And Roll”. Heartland rocker Bob Seger – born in Detroit, Michigan – combines raunchy […]
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by Paul
In the late Seventies Jackson Browne wrote a song about being a rock musician on tour called “The Load Out”, which morphed into “Stay”, and featured David Lindley on slide guitar/lap steel guitar (and a falsetto voice on the chorus). I don’t really remember “The Load Out” part too much, but “Stay” (Oh won’t you […]
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by Paul
Michael Martin Murphey is another one of those names that would have meant nothing to me if you had asked me about him – until just now when I came across the 1975 hit “Wildfire”. Then I knew who he was. I used to love that song. “Wildfire” is about a horse, as the video […]
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by Paul
“Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” by Rupert Holmes (from his “Partners in Crime” album) was the very last Hot 100 No. 1 of the Seventies, hitting Number One in late December of 1979. After dropping to No. 2 in the first week of January, 1980, it went back to No. 1 the next week. This […]
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by Paul
Every time I open a certain web editing program I think of the Gary Wright song “Dream Weaver” that came out in 1975. And when I think of that song, I think of my room in the student hostel in my first year of university, because that was where I heard it a lot, in […]
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