by Paul
One of the sounds I especially remember from the latter part of the Seventies was the British-American band Foreigner, with hits like “Cold As Ice”, “Double Vision” and “Head Games”.
These were soon followed in the early Eighties by more hits, such as “Urgent”, “Waiting For A Girl Like You”, “Juke Box Hero” and “I Want To Know What Love Is”.
Here’s “Cold As Ice”, from their first album, “Foreigner”:
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by Paul
In my mind’s eye I connect a a couple of album covers with the year 1972. One of them is “Aqualung” from British band Jethro Tull. (It may or may not interest you to know that the original Jethro Tull invented the seed drill in 1701… a fact that has stuck in my mind ever since I first came across it…).
And these words:
“Do you still remember December’s foggy breeze, When the ice that clings onto your beard was screaming agony”
Here’s the title track “Aqualung” live:
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by Paul
“Dust In The Wind” from Kansas features strongly in a short story I once wrote that takes place in a bar in (then West) Berlin, which in turn always reminds me of a Kate Bush song that begins with the line “You’ll find me in a Berlin bar in a corner, brooding” (“Saxophone Song” from her first album “The Kick Inside”.)
Last time I went back to that bar, some years ago, it had turned into a bright, slightly sterile pizzeria. No atmosphere and certainly no “Dust In The Wind” playing.
Anyway, back to “Dust In The Wind” itself.
This is the studio version accompanying what appears to be a privately made music “video” filmed on 8 mm film in 1977 and recently salvaged by the filmmaker’s son:
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by Paul
I could listen to Carlos Santana playing “Samba Pa Ti” for hours, and yet for years I didn’t even know what the song was called – I just knew that I loved it!
Actually I could listen to anyone playing it, as long as they played it well.
My main Seventies memory associated with this song, off the 1970 Santana album “Abraxas”, is the Awapuni Tavern in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
We used to go to all kinds of student functions there, but also just to hear whoever was playing. It was quite a way out of town, so you had to make an effort to go there.
Usually it was worth it…
So here it is, “Samba Pa Ti” by Santana, the original:
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by Paul
In 1975 Scottish rock band Nazareth released their version of the Everly Brothers track from 1960, “Love Hurts”.
It was the only version of several to become a hit.
Here’s the video recording of the studio version:
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