“Parallel to my musical career I’ve always been on a spiritual sojourn, looking for truth and meaning. It was a song of self-encouragement. I was telling myself to keep on looking and I would find what I sought.” — Kerry Livgren on “Dust in the Wind” by his band, Kansas
Read MoreSilly Love Songs by Paul McCartney and Wings from the album Wings at the Speed of Sound. It was the #1 song in America on July 4, 1776. Fitting that one of our favorite British invaders would have the #1 song on that day.
Read More“…when you watch film footage of David singing this song that he resisted but so many people loved, you would never know he was ambivalent about it -- at least them. ‘It’s a high going out on that stage. You look around and it’s all there for you, people loving you like that.’”
Read MoreMarley said of the critics and fans who tried to compare him to Mick Jagger that they were not listening to what he was saying. He said the message is not the same and “Reggae is not the Twist.”
Read MoreTo give you an idea of how soundtracks were still not very respected, Paramount Studios declined to take any shares of the royalties from the SNF soundtrack. WHOOPS! It was only the best selling album of ALL TIME until Thriller.
Read MoreIs there anybody out there who could pull off a musical comedy variety show nowadays?
“Nobody. It’s not possible because the audiences got to the point where the desire is on reality and the desire is on shock. And the Donny & Marie Show was (built) on simplicity and innocence, and we just don’t have that anymore. Nobody could pull that off — not even Donny and Marie” — Donny Osmond
Read More“I have no message whatsoever. I really have nothing to say, no suggestions or advice. All I do is suggest some ideas that will keep people listening a bit longer. And out of it all, maybe they’ll come up with the message and save me the work.” — David Bowie
Read More“Heavy metal pimply, prole, putrid, unchic, unsophisticated, anti-intellectual but impossibly pretentious, dismal, abysmal, terrible, horrible, and stupid music, barely music at all; deaf music, dead music the beaten boogie, the dance of defeat and decay…”
Read More“I’m not leaving country music, I am taking it with me.” — Dolly Parton
Read MoreDon't let the handshake and the smile fool ya
Take my advice, I'm only tryin' to school ya
— Smiling Faces by The Undisputed Truth
Read MoreChallenging the idea of art, which is entirely subjective, in the 70s is a very 70s thing. This is the “Me Decade.” The decade of psychotherapy and liberation -- or at least attempts to move toward liberation -- raising consciousness. We did not have a collective vision of what progress meant. It was up to us to explore that, as individuals.
Read MoreDewey Bunnell of the band, America, said that even though “Ventura Highway” is not a real highway, it was inspired by the Pacific Coast Highway and his thoughts of returning there while he was a kid living in Omaha. Also, alligator lizards in the air are clouds.
Read MoreSome of the labor uprisings of the 70s were led by young Baby Boomers who were either used to organizing in the Sixties or were unafraid of standing up to their boss after surviving Vietnam.
Read More“Although I prefer the heavier beer of rock and roll, the sweet white wine of Joni Mitchell is welcome.”
Read MoreIf Bruce Springsteen’s music can be called the sound of a ‘56 Chevy fueled by ground up Crystals records, then Parliament’s records must surely be the result of James Brown and Isaac Hayes records mixed in a high-speed Waring blender in the backseat of a leopardskin Cadillac pimpmobile.”
Read MoreThe festival seating system was designed to squeeze as much money as possible out of the fans who made the industry possible. Safety was secondary, if it was a concern at all.
Read MoreAmy cites Professor Laurence Ralph, who said that “Soul Train” showed young African Americans doing things that were “radically ordinary.” Just like American Bandstand.
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