PITCH IMPERFECT – THE 1970 FA CUP FINAL
1970 FA CUP FINAL – Chelsea v Leeds United: Captains Billy Bremner and Ron Harris decide on kick-off and choice of weapons……
RANTS & REFLECTIONS
THE BEATLES: 50 years gone, 100 per cent still with us……
Along with Bob Dylan they opened up an awareness of attitudes that without them might have lay stifled for years.
CHEERIO TO THAT 70s SHOW – Twenty great albums from 1979………..
‘Lodger’ – another example of why the influence of David Bowie is so lasting and profound.
THE FINE REIGN OF CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
The finest Creedence records rock like Eddie Cochran, have the lyrical potency of Dylan and fill a dance floor as fast as The O’Jays.
CHILLY TIMES – Bob Seger and AGAINST THE WIND
AGAINST THE WIND (1980): In a bittersweet year for Bob Seger his latest album tops the U.S. album charts for six weeks but is roundly panned by the critics.
BRICKS & STONES (IRON & STEEL) – Twenty songs with walls or bridges in the title……….
Songs with Walls or Bridges in the Title – SIMON and GARFUNKEL: Bridges/Subway Walls….
MUSIC MUST CHANGE – Twenty great albums of 1978
Three years on from ‘Born to Run’ ‘DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN’ eschews the lush production of its predecessor and adopts a more taut sound.
DENNIS VIOLLET – ‘A UNITED MAN’ (documentary review):
‘For me,’ says Fred Eyre, ‘Dennis Viollet is up there with Best, Law and Charlton – he really was that good.’
WHO LEADS THE WAY – The Who & ‘LIVE AT LEEDS’……
‘LIVE AT LEEDS (1970) has umpteen examples of The Who pushing their incredible talents to the limits of a genre they had created.
VAN DELIVERS TWO PRECIOUS GIFTS – ‘Astral Weeks’ & ‘Moondance’……
MOONDANCE (1970): If sunshine could be heard, it would sound like ‘Moondance’……….