100 Greatest songs of the 70’s #53 Squeeze – Take Me, I’m Yours

Released: 1978 One of music’s defining qualities as an art form is it’s subjectivity; such is it prone to influence … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #54 The Doors – Riders On The Storm

Released: 1971 In the end, are we not all just multiple personalities tied up in one skin? Jim Morrison – … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #55 The Police – Walking On the Moon

Released: 1979 Whilst you could spend hours debating what was punk and what was not, The Police were definitely not … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #56 Diana Ross – Love Hangover

Released: 1976 Diana Ross reputedly hated the name The Supremes, despite it being an apt description of Motown’s most successful … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #58 Iggy Pop – The Passenger

Released: 1977 “I think I am a little different upstairs, yeah. But so are a lot of people,” Iggy Pop … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #59 Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

Released : 1978 “Haven’t you heard” Ian Dury enquired of whoever was going by the name of ‘Mike Stand’ at … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #60 James Brown – Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine

Released: 1970 In an interview that took place a couple of years before his death in 2006 James Brown was … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #61 Black Sabbath – Paranoid

Released : 1970 Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi wasn’t much sold on the idea of his loss being everyone else’s gain … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #62 Sylvester – You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

Released: 1978 Sylvester James was born in LA and grew up singing gospel in his local Pentecostal church, before as … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #63 Gil Scott-Heron – The Bottle

Released : 1974 Compared once in an interview to Bob Dylan, Gil Scott-Heron could only bristle, retorting to the suggestion … More