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Hi, my name is Andy & I live in Leeds, in northern England. I've been writing about music for more than ten years. My work outside of this blog is featured on Live4ever and Contact Music.
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #8 Fleetwood Mac – The Chain
Released: 1977 Any Fleetwod Mac fan should be able to give you the back story to Rumours, the band’s most … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #9 Kraftwerk – Autobahn
Released: 1975 Was it any suprise that the seeds of ultra-modernism came from Europe? A region which had undergone a … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #10 Gary Numan – Cars
Released: 1979 Up until late 1979 synthesizers had remained firmly inside the domain of the serious professional musician. As Tubeway … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #11 Nick Drake – Hazy Jane I
Released: 1971 One of the most surprising aspects of Nick Drake’s lasting posthumous success is that there is so little … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #12 The Specials – Gangsters
Released: 1979 The main strength of punk’s radicalism was that it didn’t begin and end in punk itself, which had … More
The Cure – Live at Leeds Arena review
8.15, Tuesday night. A suitably chill wind is blowing outside Leeds’ First Direct Arena as the crowds gather for a … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #13 Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Released: 1979 The first single from the Off The Wall album. Discussion here.
White Lung – Premonition review
Most times where a period of five years has elapsed between albums there’s a some kind of back story that … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #14 David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
Released: 1974 Winning formulas were once upon a time everything when it came to music fame and success. Pop’s architecture … More
The Voice Of Unreason 