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Category Archives: rock music
10 Saxophone Solos from the 70’s
After a break for Glastonbury its back to the world of 70’s saxophone. This week it’s 10 memorable sax solos from UK Artists (America you can wait). As Greenpete58 observed on my sax in the 70’s feature the Yanks invented … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's biography, pink floyd, pop music, prog rock, rock music, roxy music, saxophone, The Stones
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Glastonbury 1979
In 1979, when is seemed that the hippie dream was pretty much over, the music press announced that there would be a Glastonbury festival that summer. In fact, I think it may have been announced there would be a Glastonbury … Continue reading
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Tagged alex harvey, Glastonbury festival, hitching, John Martyn, Michael eavis, Peter Gabrial, Phil Colins, sky, Steve hillage, the only ones, Tim Blake, tom robinson
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Sax in the 70’s
Last week I made a case for the temporary death of the saxophone in the 70’s. This week with a bit of racking of the brain I have come up with a small tribute to the people who honked and … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's music, andy McKay, David Jackson, eccentricities, gentle giant, lee Thompson, lol coxhill, Mel Collins, roxymusic, saxa, saxophone, session musicians
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The Joy of Sax
If you were a young man hoping to make your way in the world of popular music in the 1920’s and you wanted to be the star of the show there was only one real choice of instrument to play … Continue reading
Five Forgotten Bands of the 70’s
After my ratings busting last two posts, overrated and underrated, this weekwe are looking at bands who never got big enough to be overrated or underrated, here are 5 bands that time has almost forgotten As Jung said ‘there is gold in the dark’ … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's music, count bishops, Henry cow, mighty baby, politics, stray, string driven thing, top of the pops
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Underrated.
Ok, so overrated was hard and contentious and possibly offensive (lighten up it’s just one person’s opinion!). But what could go wrong with underrated , we love the underdog don’t we ? Similar rules, all British all linked in some … Continue reading
Overrated
When it comes to reputations context is everything, we filter the past through the prism of the present. When I was and impressionable teenager ‘Sgt Pepper’ was officially not only the best Beatles LP but the best long playing record … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 70's biography, 70's music, ELP, elton john, eric clapton, led zeppelin, wire
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