Mr Nice GuyYour Complete 70s Jukebox - Try It!
July 4th 2009 10:17
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Coming Out of the Closet
July 2nd 2009 09:06
Then I felt ashamed.
How, after all these years could I tell the friends that I grew up with the news!
After all you could tell 'by the way that I walk and the way that I talk' that I'd been hiding behind a facade - but now it was time to come out!
My gosh - that feels better. What a release . . .
Stayin Alilve, Night Fever, More Than A Woman, Tradegy, How Deep Is Your Love even Spicks and Specs or for the more hardcore of us who simply want to hear their harmonies - the Frankie Valli "Grease" or Yvonne Elliman "If I Can't Have You" or Samantha Sang's "Emotion".
The mere thought Barry's falsetto accompanying Travlota's opening scene in Saturday Night Fever is enough to get any Bee Gee's fan blood flowing quicker than you can say Tony Monaro.
So Whether you're a brother
Or whether you're a mother . . .
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk
I guess it's just emotions taking me over . . . .
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The Elton Factor - Are You A Fan?
June 25th 2009 01:55
Born Reggie Dwight, Elton was raised by his mother having fortunately be saved the trauma of his parents divorce, and was playing the piano by the time he was four.
Having won a scholarship to the prestigious Royal Academy of Music at 11, he studied for several years, before leaving to pursue his career in music and forming his first band Bluesology, in 1961, when he was 14.
By 1965, the band was getting paying gigs. In 1966, Dwight tried out as a singer for both King Crimson and Gentle Giant -- neither band wanted him -- and auditioned for Liberty Records -- which didn't want him either.
It wasn't until a record company gave Dwight some throw away lyrics penned by the then unheralded Bernie Taupin that it all started to come together.
While his first album is best left for collectors - his second included "Your Song", which shot into the top ten in both the U.S. and U.K. and the legend was born.
Pegging 30 top 40 hits between 1970 and 1982, with at least one top 40 single every year until 1996, Elton John has had seven consecutive #1 albums.
In and out of rehab, fighting drug addiction and alcoholism for most of the 80's John was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat in the latter part of the 90s, and had a pacemaker installed.
And while both his lifestyle and the hit facotry has slowed over the past decade - John is still undeniably an icon of his era.
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Give My Band A Name!
June 16th 2009 22:00
But we need a name
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Do you have a signature song?
June 16th 2009 00:53
And why does it hold a special place in your world
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The Greatest Band of the 80's was . . . .
June 11th 2009 06:35
The 80's was one of those bizarre - change of seasons period in popular music, where disco met new wave, where rock met transgender pop
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Funny Album Covers
June 10th 2009 01:40
It matters nought to these beauties though - whose covers alone speak volumes
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ELO - the 70's personified
June 1st 2009 23:33
Modern Opera
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AC/DC - homegrown legends
May 25th 2009 02:24
Formed in Sydney back in 1973 the group is offically classified as hard rockers though purists will argue vehmently that they were in fact pioneers of heavy metal
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The U2 legend
May 19th 2009 00:36
It is not quite the fairytale – but for a band of teenagers from Dublin - with limited musical ability – U2 have certainly re-written rock fable
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