My Seventies Music

Gordon Lightfoot – “If You Could Read My Mind”, “Sundown” and “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”

Three Seventies songs from Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot stick in my mind – “If You Could Read My Mind”, “Sundown” and “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”. “If You Could Read My Mind”, written after his divorce, reached No. 1 in Canada and the 5th spot in the USA. Here is the original: And […]

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

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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Puhdys -“Ikarus”, “Ikarus II” and “Mephisto”

I first came across the East German band Puhdys back in either 1978 or 1979 on a trip to Germany (before I lived there) and bought their album “Pudhys 5”, with tracks like “Ikarus II”, “Mephisto” and “Wilde Jahre” (Wild Years). Pudhys, who were heavily influenced by artists like Deep Purple and Uriah Heep, were […]

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Janis Joplin – “Cry Baby”

“Cry Baby” was one of Janis Joplin’s iconic numbers, full of the energy and passion that characterised all her music.

Janis Joplin only just made it into the Seventies – she died 40 years ago in 1970.

But her music kept her name alive nevertheless.

Here’s a live clip from that year, “Cry Baby”, filmed in 1979 in Toronto:

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