Living in the 70s

Show broadcast Nov 9 2025 It’s international science and peace week. Yes, there is a week for that. So on today’s show, all of our songs are about science or peace. Was a bit too much of an ask to find a song about both, sadly, but taken together I think we have the theme covered. The post Science and Peace appeared first on Living in the 70s .

Show broadcast Nov 2 2025 It’s a menagerie in here! Yes this week all of our tracks have some kind of animal in the title. Furred, clawed, scaled and winged, animals make their way into songs – often as metaphors – just as much as the weather and the environment. The post All the animals appeared first on Living in the 70s .

Show broadcast Oct 26 2025 The Seventies had some truly great music. Music that has stood the test of time and sounds as relevant and fresh today as it did 50 years ago. However, not all of it was good, or still sounds relevant, or fresh. Some of it, played now, just sounds daggy. But some of the daggy stuff is our secret guilty pleasure. Well, not so secret after this show. The post Getting daggy...

Show broadcast Oct 19 2025 This week we’re getting a little bit wet. It’s Spring, and it’s been a bit rainy in some parts of the country. So we thought we would play some tracks all about the rain. The post Who’ll stop the rain? appeared first on Living in the 70s .

Show broadcast Oct 12 2025 On this week’s show we are playing tracks from artists who went solo after being known for being in a band. Many of them became much more well known after striking out on their own. Perhaps they felt constrained by having to compromise with others, perhaps they felt that their talent didnt have room to truly shine. Whatever the reason, we are certainly glad they to...

Show broadcast Oct 5 2025 It’s our birthday! Yes we have been doing this show for six whole years. In fact, our fist show was broadcast live on this exact date – October 5 – in 2019. Oh what eager newbies we were back then! So much to learn. So much to experience. We like to think we are a bit more smooth and polished these days. Anywhoo, in honour of the occasion, today’s...

Show broadcast Sep 28 2025 It’s an odd tradition, really, but sometimes an album will simply be called whatever the name of the artists is who made the recording. Often this means it’s a debut album, but not always – sometimes it can be a reintroduction to the market after an artist changes labels and tries to hit the big time once again. Whatever the reason, it seemed a good the...

Show broadcast Sep 21 2025 This week it’s another show where we take a break from themese and just pick a few tracks we feel like listening too and sharing with you all. The post More of our faves appeared first on Living in the 70s .

Show broadcast Sep 14 2025 The Seventies ushered in the era of the Singer Songwriter. These double threats (usually triple threats, because they could play an instrument or two as well) liked to go their own way, often throwing out formulas to create their own unique sounds. On this week’s show we explore the brilliant musical minds of Seventies singer songwriters. The post Singer songwriter...

Show broadcast Sep 7 2025 On this weeks show we are adding a little colour to our lives. Yes, we love to get colourful here on Living in the 70s, so we picked some tracks that all have a colur in the title. The post Add a little colour appeared first on Living in the 70s .

Wow – 300 shows. We often talk about how much we have learned about Seventies music since we started doing this show, and also how our musical tastes have gathered both breadth and depth. So to celebrate this milestone, we thought we would share some of the songs that we have discovered along the way that have now become firm favourites. If you have been on this journey with us since our fir...

Aaaah love. It makes the world go round, no doubt, and has been the inspiration for songwriters since songwriting first began. Sadly, many of the resulting ditties are less than memorable. Some love songs, however, truly do stand the test of time and are destined to be sung plaintively into a damp pillow, danced to joyfully at weddings or shyly shared in a DM. These are just a few of our hosts fav...

In the Seventies, not all great tracks were released as singles. So if you didn’t buy or borrow a band’s albums, there would be a lot of material that you might never get to hear. On this show, we can sometimes be guilty of playing an artists best known songs – usually single releases – and skipping over plenty of other great tracks. So we thought we would fix this and show...

This weeks show is all about dreams. Day dreams, night dreams, wishful thinking and fantasies, these are things all humans experience and of course have provided the inspiration for song writers and story tellers since we first gathered around a fire.  So what better theme for a show than songs about dreams. The post Dream a little dream appeared first on Living in the 70s .

On this week’s show, Marty and Venetia are getting heavy and rocking it out to explore the music of Seventies rock bands. In honour of the passing of that heavy rock icon, Ozzy Osbourne, the show features two Black Sabbath numbers as well as tracks from other heavyweights such as Aerosmith, AC/DC and Kiss.  It’s a blast of a show! The post This podcast rocks! appeared first on Living i...

So. Many. Great. Girl. Groups. There, enough said 🙂 The post Girl groups appeared first on Living in the 70s .

A few weeks ago we did a show featuring songs all about rural life. Well this week we’re moving to the big smoke with its  mean streets and gritty alley ways. It’s our city and we’re living that street life and it’s enough to give us the inner city blues. Taxi! The post City living appeared first on Living in the 70s .

It’s the middle of winter and feeling a bit chilly down here in the South. The woolly hats and scarfs are out and it feels like we may never see the sun again. So this week we’re featuring songs about winter and being cold. Brrr! The post Baby it’s cold outside appeared first on Living in the 70s .

On Sunday this week it was World Rural Development Day. So of course on today’s show we are playing tracks about living in or being in the country. There’s nothing quite like feeling the fresh air in your lungs, hearing the birds calling and seeing the leaves of the tress rustling in a breeze. Many songwriters in the Seventies felt the same and waxed lyrical about the charms of country...

This week we are celebrating the end of the financial year by playing Seventies tracks all about money, honey.  Yes, filthy lucre, bread, dough, cash, that stuff that makes the world go round. We give little bits of metal and paper and plastic a made up value and then slave all of our lives to make sure we have enough of it. No wonder we also write songs about it. Here’s hoping that your boo...

This week we are revisiting a previous theme and playing more Seventies covers of Seventies songs. It wasn’t unusual in that decade for a few different artists to release the same songs not very far apart. Sometimes the same song could be a hit for different artists, but occasionally a song that languished in relative obscurity would be reinterpreted  a made into a hit by somebody new.  That...

Last week your hosts were a bit miz. Yes, we were riddled with lurgies and as moist and watery as our theme. Not very fun. Luckily, this week we are recovered and we felt like celebrating by playing Seventies tracks that always make us feel good. You know, those tracks that always lift your mood and bring a little joy and sunshine into your life. We love them. Hopefully you do too. The post We&#82...

Once again it’s World Ocean’s Day and we are having a show in celebration of all things watery. All of the tracks on this week’s show have something to do with waterways (yes, not just oceans, some are about rivers – we like to be inclusive).  Welcome to Seventies wet week! The post It’s a watery world appeared first on Living in the 70s .

On this weeks show, we pay tribute to a great Australian musical partnership, performing, songwriting and producing duo Harry Vanda and George Young. Vanda and Young met at an immigrant hostel in NSW when they were teenagers and went on to be part of the internationally successful band the Easybeats, writing all of the Easybeats’ later songs including the hit Friday on My Mind. Towards the e...

So many fantastic debut albums came out in the Seventies that we thought we would bring you our third show featuring some of our favourites. This time we hear from some classic Australian artists, some big time soul artists, and also feature a track from one of the best selling albums of all time. It’s all classic Seventies, so you know its good. The post Even more great debut albums appeare...