Sam Knee's book Untypical Girls captures images of the newly-liberated women driving the punk movement in London and around the world in the late 1970...
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Videos by American Songwriter R&B singer Frank Ocean has encountered legal trouble over his song “American Wedding” off of his debut 2011 mixtape Nostalgia, ULTRA, which utilizes the entire master recording of the Eagles’ 1977 hit “Hotel California” as its backing track. Ocean posted on his personal blog yesterday, “Don henley(’s label—Rhino) is apparently intimidated […] More
Slade were a ’70s Glam Rock band which personified the era. If you’re a baby boomer you probably saw them for the first time on the UK’s Top of the Pops, and I just had a trip dow…
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Angus Young (top left), Phil Rudd (top right), Bon Scott (bottom left), and Malcolm Young (bottom right). Spoiler alert! This post does, in fact, contain an image of AC/DC guitar hero Angus Young’s balls, a sight you may have witnessed yourself if you’ve ever seen the band in concert. And that’s because Angus is known for flashing his ass and low-hanging fruit in the wild, much to the delight of AC/DC’s loyal fans during their live performances. I got to thinking rather nostalgically about AC/DC on Sunday as it would have marked the 71st birthday of long departed vocalist Bon Scott, who passed away at the way too young age of 34 in February of 1980. Many of the images in this post were previously uploaded to various AC/DC fan forum sites, and others were published in rock magazines in the 1970s. I also came upon more that were taken backstage by fans of the band as well as some behind-the-scenes images that were captured of the boys while they were recording their face-smashing 1978 album Powerage in 1977. Some days, the Internet is very generous, and today was one of those days. Of all...
ABBA was not the only Swedish band to emerge in the 1970s. A myriad of bands had the whipped hair, trousers tight enough to make redundant questions on shoe sizes and songs. They had outfits that shimmered and shone. Never mind the sounds, cop a load of the clothes on the bands’ album covers. … Continue reading "Swedish Dance Bands Of The 1970s: Whipped Hair And No Underwear"
Talk about perseverance! It took seven studio albums before the midwestern band achieved real success. Two years later, they were at the top of the music world
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Прелестная солистка ABBA: Агнета Фельтског в 1970-х и начале 1980-х годов ABBA была очень популярной шведской исполнительской группой в 1970-х и начале 1980-х годов. В группу входили две девушки: Агнета Фельтског и Анни-Фрид Фрида Лингстад и два парня Бьорн Ульвеус и Бенни…
Dutch postcard by Muziek Parade, Bussum, no. AX 7295. 10cc is an English art rock band from Salford and Prestwich who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. The band initially consisted of the four musicians at the postcard — Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme. Three of the founding members of 10cc were childhood friends in the Manchester area. As boys, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme knew each other; Graham Gouldman and Godley attended the same secondary school. Their musical enthusiasm led to playing at the local Jewish Lads' Brigade.Their first recorded collaboration was in 1964, when Gouldman's band The Whirlwinds recorded the Lol Creme composition, Baby Not Like You, as the B-side of their only single. Gouldman and Creme then played in The Mockingbirds, which recorded five singles in 1965–66 without any success. In the emanwhile guitarist Eric Stewart was a member of Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, a group that hit No.1 with The Game of Love, and scored a number of other mid-1960s hits. In September 1969, Godley & Creme recorded some basic tracks at Strawberry Studios, with Stewart on guitar and Gouldman on bass. In 1972 Gouldman, Stewart, Godley, and Creme had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the name 10cc. Their first single was Donna, a sharp mix of commercial pop and irony with a chorus sung in falsetto. Donna was chosen by BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Tony Blackburn as his Record of the Week, helping to launch it into the Top 30. The song peaked at No. 2 in the UK in October 1972. Rubber Bullets, a catchy satirical take on the Jailhouse Rock concept, became a hit internationally and gave 10cc their first British No.1 single in June 1973. Their LP, Sheet Music (1973) included the songs The Worst Band in the World, The Wall Street Shuffle (no.10, 1974) and Silly Love (no. 24, 1974). Sheet Music became the band's breakthrough album, remaining on the UK charts for six months and paving the way for a US tour in February 1974. 10cc featured two strong songwriting teams, one commercial and one 'artistic', but both teams injected sharp wit into lyrically dextrous and musically varied songs. Stewart and Gouldman were predominantly pop-song-writers, who created most of the band's accessible songs. By way of contrast, Godley and Creme were the predominantly experimental half of 10cc, featuring an Art School sensibility and cinematic inspired writing. Every member of 10cc was a multi-instrumentalist, singer, writer and producer, and the writing teams frequently switched partners, so that Godley/Gouldman or Creme/Stewart compositions were not uncommon. In 1975, the band signed with Mercury Records for US $1 million. Their album The Original Soundtrack peaked at number four on the UK Albums Chart and reached no.15 in the U.S. The album includes the singles Life Is a Minestrone and I'm Not in Love, the latter of which became the band's most popular song.The album's opening track, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme's Une Nuit A Paris, is an nine-minute, multi-part 'mini-operetta'. Its melody can also be heard in the overture to Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera. 10cc's next LP, How Dare You! (1976) furnished two more UK Top Ten hits—the witty Art for Art's Sake (no. 5 in January 1976) and I'm Mandy, Fly Me (no.6, April 1976). But by this time the once close personal and working relationships between the four members had begun to fray, and it was the last album with the original line-up. After Godley and Creme left the band in 1976, Gouldman and Stewart were the main creative forces behind 10cc. They worked with drummer Paul Burgess, who had up to that point been their tour backup drummer. Their first album as a three piece band was Deceptive Bends (1977). It reached no. 3 in Britain and no. 31 in the US and also yielded three hit singles, The Things We Do for Love (UK no. 6, US no. 5), Good Morning Judge (UK no. 5, US no. 69) and People in Love (US no. 40). The following album Bloody Tourists (1978) provided the band with their third UK No. 1 single, the reggae-styled Dreadlock Holiday. It was their last hit. Stewart left the band in 1996, and Gouldman continues to lead a touring version of 10cc. Most of the band's albums were recorded at their own Strawberry Studios (North) in Stockport and Strawberry Studios (South) in Dorking, with most of those engineered by Stewart. Source: Wikipedia.
