My Seventies Music

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

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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Foreigner – “Cold As Ice”, “Double Vision”, “Head Games”, “Urgent”, “Waiting For A Girl Like You”, “Juke Box Hero” and “I Want To Know What Love Is”

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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