Sweet – Solid Gold Brass
Best Oldies Songs A gritty, heavy statement of artistic independence forged in the fires of Glam Rock The Road to ‘Desolation Boulevard’: Sweet’s Rebellio For those of us who lived through the seismic…
John Denver – Back Home Again
The Gentle Anthem of an American Wanderer In the tapestry of 1970s folk-pop, few threads are as warmly woven and enduring as the heartfelt compositions of John Denver. The man…
Sweet – Love Is Like Oxygen
An Enduring Metaphor for Love’s Breathless Necessity Ah, The Sweet. Say the name, and for those of us who came of age in the 1970s, a rush of glammed-up, high-octane…
The Osmonds – Having A Party
That Time We Danced All Night: The Electric Joy of The Osmonds’ Unexpected Funk Hit It’s funny how a song can be a timestamp, a brief, shiny moment captured forever,…
Donny Osmond – Who
Who: The Ache of Uncertainty in a Faltering Young Love The autumn of 1972 delivered a surprise to the pop charts, a tender ache of a ballad that marked a…
Fats Domino – The Fat Man
A Boisterous New Orleans Boogie Woogie Anthem That Launched a Legend The post-war American landscape was one of transformation, and in the bustling, soulful heart of New Orleans, a sound…
Roy Orbison – Crying
The Soul-Baring Anthem of Uncontrollable Heartbreak and Regret Oh, the magic of the radio dial in 1961. We were just coming into our own, weren’t we? The world was changing…
David Essex – Gonna Make You A Star
That Gleam in Your Eye: The Glamorous, Self-Aware Anthem of Stardom There are certain songs, certain moments in music history, that perfectly capture the zeitgeist of their era while also,…
David Essex – Hold Me Close
“Hold Me Close” is a simple yet sincere pop declaration of enduring love and commitment. The mid-1970s. What a time, wasn’t it? The decade was in full swing, moving beyond…
Sweet – Fox on the Run
That Glorious Year the Glam Rockers Finally Took Control: The Stealthy Smash That Changed Sweet Forever The mid-1970s. For those of us who lived through the glam rock explosion, the…