Living in the 70s

We’re super excited! This week we explore superb, superior, supreme Seventies songs with super either in the title or in the name of the artists. Why? Well, because it’s super fun. And we’ve certainly found some super tracks.  Proving, once again, that there is no decade like the Seventies for truly super music. The post Super Seventies appeared first on Living in the 70s .

Long live the cover version! Sometimes other artists do it better, sometimes they just do it differently, but it’s always interesting to hear a great song reinterpreted.  In the Seventies great cover songs could be released practically on the heels of the original. On this week’s show we explore just a few of these Seventies cover versions that had already been released in the same dec...

Yes it’s happy birthday, happy anniversary and how-the-heck-is-this-little-show-still-going to us! We have had the enormous pleasure of bringing fabulous Seventies music to you for the past five years.  So this week’s show is all about the number 5 – whether that’s band members, band names or song titles, the number 5 is where it’s at.  Cheers!  And may there be many...

This week we are showcasing tracks from what we consider to be some of the great debut albums of the 1970s.  There are way too many to cover them all in just one show, but we think we’ve put together a great selection, including Patti Smith (or course), The Saints, Skyhooks, Kate Bush and many more. The post Great Debut Albums appeared first on Living in the 70s .

Life is full of ups and downs and it turns out that the Seventies music catalogue is as well. In this week’s show, all of our songs feature either up or down in the title, demonstrating that there’s nothing like a bit of turbulence to generate some good lyrics. So let’s get up and dance, get down tonight, give it up and stir it up with some great Seventies tracks. The post Up and...

We have learned doing this show, that any band with a long and successful career will inevitably become woven into a tangled web of musical connections. People from other well known bands will produce their albums, cover their songs, sing back up vocals or play an instrument on a recording or even leave their original bands and become part of the group, or leave the group and go on to record their...

Who are they, and what are they to you? That’s what we want to know this week, as we explore Seventies songs about cheating and affairs. It’s all about lying eyes and cheating hearts and the wrong kind of loving. Oooooh you done me wrong! But you know what? After all is said and done, can we still be friends? The post Your cheating heart appeared first on Living in the 70s .

This week we are revisiting the Sixties by way of the Seventies. A few weeks ago we looked at what the individual Beatles members got up to in the Seventies after they disbanded. On today’s show we explore how the music of the Beatles continued to reverberate through the Seventies by playing some of their most well known songs as covered by other artists. It really is hard to overstate the s...

On this week’s show we’re mining the archives for Seventies songs featuring some kind of metal in the title.  We’ve found rich seams of gold rings and hearts, and silver eyes and ladies, and some less flashy metals, like tin men and brass bands. But whether they are pure or alloy, all the tracks on today’s show are precious in their own way. The post Precious (not heavy) me...

While undeniably most songs about people are simply written to a nameless ‘you’, ‘she’ or ‘he’, some songwriters seem to be inspired by particular individuals and want to name names. This week we return to a theme we haven’t visited in a while and bring together tracks from the Seventies featuring a person’s name in the title. Kiss apologises to Beth...

This week we are bookending last week’s all black show with a show featuring all tracks with white in the title. Simple! We do love an easy theme 🙂 But while the theme may be a bit trite the music is anything but. There’s some punk, some easy listening, some rock – we’ve got it all. So let’s fade to white…. The post Fade to white appeared first on Living in the...

This week we’re getting a bit dark and moody. We thought to do a ‘black and white’ show, in which all the songs had either black or white in the title, but there turned out to so many we decided to break it up into two shows. This first one features the black songs – Seventies tracks with black in the title. There’s leather, there’s water, there’s coffee,...

This week we’re getting a break from the heavy lifting as we have asked YOU, our listeners, to pick the tracks for the show. And, as usual, you’ve done a brilliant job. What a great show! What great taste you all have!  A little bit of rock, a touch of glam, a pinch of folk. Overall a very tasty mix. Nice work gang. The post Over to you appeared first on Living in the 70s .

The Beatles were the band of the 1960s, but released their final album in 1970 and broke up amid bad feeling and significant artistic differences. Each member of the Fab Four went on to release solo recordings in following decade, as well as produce records and write songs for other artists. On this week’s show we explore what happened after the biggest band in the world broke up. The post A...

We had so much fun getting glam last show, we thought we would do it again. So strap yourselves in for even more glam rock. Yes, bigger, hair, longer lashes, tighter pants and higher platform shoes – this show we’re dialing it up to 11. You’re welcome The post Even more glam appeared first on Living in the 70s .

Tight satin pants? Check. Long flowing locks? Check. Bit of lippy and some eye liner? Check and check. It’s glam rock! Where boys and girls will be whatever they like as long as the fans are adoring and the records are selling. We’re not trying to be all earnest and authentic here, we understand the game and we’re in it for the fame. Bring it on. In fact, get it on. The post Gett...

It’s the end of the financial year and everyone is having a sale. We’ve scrabbled through the bargain bin and found a few fabulous musical items that need to go. All our tunes this week have something to do with money, dollar bills or gold. Get in now, because it’s all going for a song. The post Money, money, money appeared first on Living in the 70s .

We just can’t get enough horns! And it seems our listeners can’t either. After our last show featuring Seventies tracks with fantastic horn sections we got a request to play some more. So without further ado, here are some more punchy, snappy, bright and brassy horns. The post Even hornier appeared first on Living in the 70s .

Aah the guitar. Perhaps the quintessential instrument of the modern era. So popular that nearly everyone cans strum a few chords and whip one out round a campfire for a singalong, and so versatile that guitar is a central component of almost all modern musical genres. Yet only a few players have risen to the dizzy heights of guitar virtuoso, and many of these were wielding their instruments and th...

How do you add brightness, punch, syncopation, emphasis and groove to a song? Why add a horn section of course! And the Seventies featured some fantastic horn sections and horn players. Tower of Power, the Memphis Horns, the Phoenix Horns, Maceo Parker, the list goes on. This week we highlight the glorious, joyous horns of Seventies music. The post Feeling Brassy appeared first on Living in the 70...

Way back in the 1970s, not everyone was getting sweaty at a disco or grooving to soul music. No indeed, for some music lovers, nothing could be more transporting than settling in to the bean bag and poring over the latest fantastical triple-gatefold album cover while listening to some complex, lengthy, and conceptual progressive rock. Its critics often characterised prog rock as pretentious, pompo...

Today’s show is a tribute to the humble cowbell. So, uncelebrated and yet such an essential feature of rock, funk and latin music. It doesn’t play melody, being only one note, but it does add texture, syncopation and drive to any track. For as long as we’ve been human we’ve clapped our hands, stamped our feet and hit two sticks together to create a beat. The cow bell is the...

Happy mother’s day to all the boogie mamas! Yes it’s that time of year again where we all say a big thank you to the mamas. Mamas who rock, mamas who boogie, mamas who get down and mamas who keep it funky. Today’s show is for you. The post Boogie Mama appeared first on Living in the 70s .

This week it’s part three of our exploration of Seventies musical artists in alphabetical order. On this week’s show,  we continue our journey through the alphabet, covering the letters Q to Z.  Yes, it’s all the tricky letters, including Q, U, X, Y and Z. And what do you know? We managed to find tracks for them all. The post The A to Z of Seventies music, part three appeared fir...

Last week we brought you part one of our exploration of Seventies musical artists in alphabetical order. On this week’s show,  we continue our journey through the alphabet, covering the letters I to P.  From Iggy Pop to the Pointer Sisters, it’s an orderly progression through some Seventies fabulousness. The post The A to Z of Seventies music, part two appeared first on Living in the 7...