Tag Archives: 70’s music

15:Hallogallo… Neu

Posted on May 24, 2020 by

Covid coma has hit me this week so I am recycling an old post Hallogallo holds a place in my heart even though I’ve sometimes gone decades without listening to it. This is partly because its a great track perfectly … Continue reading →

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11: Maybe I’m Amazed…Paul McCartney/ The Faces

Posted on April 26, 2020 by

The official video for McCartney’s classic has been released newly remastered. It’s just over 50 years since the release of his first solo album ‘McCartney’. A record recorded before we were even certain what was happening with the Beatles. Most … Continue reading →

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Song for Easter..Morning has Broken

Posted on April 12, 2020 by

Well its Easter again and it’s an Easter like no other. We seem to have had a decent New Year’s Day, then Australia caught fire, Britain disappeared underwater and then a pandemic, if this year was on subscription I’d have … Continue reading →

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7:Meet me on the Corner…Lindisfarne

Posted on March 15, 2020 by

For most people their ultimate ‘tracks of my years’ songs are ones they heard somewhere between the ages of 13 and 20. Almost all musician can report a eureka moment when they heard the music which would change their lives. … Continue reading →

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3 Still Life.. Van Der Graff Generator

Posted on February 23, 2020 by

New music is just music you haven’t heard before. By 1979, my life was full of new music, despite rock (and roll) being just over 20 years old there was plenty I hadn’t heard yet and every week there was … Continue reading →

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The Doctors of Madness

Posted on February 16, 2020 by

Many years ago while working in Leicester I came across a story in the local paper, the Leicester Mercury, about Leicester bands who had not quite made it. Leicester is not exactly a rock and roll city but it’s made … Continue reading →

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1: Sylvia’s Mother: Dr Hook and the Medicine Show

Posted on January 25, 2020 by

The first couple of years of the 70’s are a dark hinterland to me. It was dark literally all the time it seemed but also I didn’t really have a clue about what was happening in the world. Like most pre teens, school was the … Continue reading →

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The Tracks of my Years

Posted on January 19, 2020 by

Splitting out lives into decades is, at best, an arbitrary experience. Its not possible to divide a century by 10 and expect life events to follow a pattern. The first part of the 70’s were really just the end of the 60’s, … Continue reading →

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The end of Rock?

Posted on January 12, 2020 by

20 years ago, along with friends and family, I was stood on a grassy bank in Northumberland waiting for the grey light to reveal the first day of the new century. Not all of us who were there then are … Continue reading →

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Ginger Baker

Posted on December 8, 2019 by

I found this post as a draft. For some reason I wrote it and never posted it. Oh well, want not waste not – here it is When I was a very young man I knew the names of two … Continue reading →

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