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Just fifteen years after Bill Haley and His Comets registered Rock ‘n’ Roll’s first #1 hit, ‘pop’ music exploded worldwide. Fragments formed new, exciting sounds and fashions, while fiercely loyal tribes and subcultures appeared in staunch support of the bands and artists.

Sandwiched between the decade’s bookends of Singer / Songwriter and Post Punk, trends constantly shifted through a plethora of genres: Heavy Rock; Progressive Rock; Country / Southern Rock; Glam Rock; Teenybop; Rockabilly revival; Disco; Funk; Soul; Punk; Electronic; Reggae; 2-Tone; Ska revival, and Yacht Rock.

There was a ‘scene’ for everyone!

The following tables comprise an index of articles written by contributors to Once Upon a Time in The ’70s. For ease of search, links are given to the posts, which are broadly split into the musical genre generally attributed to the band or artist.

There’s an article for everyone!

CHART MUSIC

CLASSIC ROCK

BAND / ARTIST	ARTICLE & LINK	CONTRIBUTOR
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke	Almost Top of the Pops	Colin Jackson
Cold Chisel	Khe Sanh	John Allan
Free	Free At Last	Paul Fitzpatrick
Gallagher, Rory	Live in Europe	Colin Jackson
Gallagher, Rory	A Taste For The Blues	Colin Jackson
Hendrix, Jimi	The Story Behind The Song …	Alan Fairley
Jobson, Eddie	Fiddler On The … Wall?	John Allan
Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin IV	Mark Arbuckle
Swampers, The (session band)	Muscle Shoals Has Got The Swampers.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Who, The	A Packed Lunch for a Vampire & Denis Neilson’s Freezer – A Who Odyssey.	Alan Fairley
Zombies, The	The Band Who Wouldn’t Die	Paul Fitzpatrick

COUNTRY ROCK / SOUTHERN ROCK / COUNTRY

BAND / ARTIST	ARTICLE & LINK	CONTRIBUTOR
Campbell, Glen	Still On The Line	John Allan
Eagles, The	Standing On The Corner, On Winslow, Arizona.	Paul Fitzpatrick

ECLECTIC MIX

BAND / ARTIST	GENRE	ARTICLE & LINK	CONTRIBUTOR
Davis, Miles	Jazz Fusion	Bitches Brew	John Allan
Eno	Ambient	Eno You Know	John Allan
Head	Jazz Fusion	Heads Up	John Allan
Various artists	Jazz	Back In 5	John Allan
Various artists	Smooth Jazz	Smooth Operator	John Allan

FOLK

Woody Guthrie

BAND / ARTIST	ARTICLE & LINK	CONTRIBUTOR
Thompson, Danny	That’s All Folk!	John Allan

GLAM ROCK

BAND / ARTIST	ARTICLE & LINK	CONTRIBUTOR
Elton John	Rocket Man	Paul Fitzpatrick
Kenny	Almost Top of the Pops	Colin Jackson
Mott the Hoople	A Journey Through Life With Mott the Hoople.	Alan Fairley
T. Rex	Children of the Revolution	Paul Fitzpatrick

PROGRESSIVE ROCK / UNDERGROUND

BAND / ARTIST	ARTICLE & LINK	CONTRIBUTOR
Glencoe	Glencoe	Colin Jackson
King Crimson	My First Gig: King Crimson	Russ Stewart

PUNK

BAND / ARTIST	ARTICLE / LINK	CONTRIBUTOR
Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)	She’s the Rebel of the Modern Town ...	Colin Jackson
Ramones / Rezillos / Radio Stars	Punk The First Time	Colin Jackson

SINGER / SONGWRITER

ARTIST	ARTICLE & LINK	CONTRIBUTOR
Mitchell, Joni	Both Sides Now.	John Allan

SOUL / FUNK / DISCO

BAND / ARTIST	ARTICLE & LINK	CONTRIBUTOR
Average White Band	Caledonian Soul Brother	Paul Fitzpatrick
Parliament / Funkadelic	P-Funk	John Allan
Sylvia Robinson	Here’s To You, Mrs Robinson	Paul Fitzpatrick
Sly & The Family Stone	All in the Family	John Allan
Tower of Power	Only So Much Oil In The Ground.	John Allan

YACHT ROCK

BAND / ARTIST	ARTICLE & LINK	CONTRIBUTOR
Hall & Oates	She’s Gone	Paul Fitzpatrick
Rundgren, Todd	A Wizard, A True Star.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Steely Dan	‘Can’t Buy A Thrill.’	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	All Aboard The Yacht.	Paul Fitzpatrick

MISCELLANEOUS MUSIC MUSINGS

BAND / ARTIST	ARTICLE & LINK	TOPIC	CONTRIBUTOR
Bowie, David	Memories of The Apollo, Glasgow: David Bowie	Some simple little gestures stick with you a lifetime …	Colin Jackson
Clarke, John Cooper (& Linton Kwesi Johnson)	They’re a Poet, Don’t You Know It	…  song that you think has fantastic lyrics, or one you like because of the lyrics, and say a bit about why you love it.’	Colin Jackson
Diamond, Neil	Those Guilty, Guilty Pleasures	Guilty pleasures.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Ethiopians, The	Two Distinct Trains of Thought	This Song’s Going Places – a song we like that’s ‘going somewhere.	Colin Jackson
Gallagher, Rory	Two Distinct Trains of Thought	This Song’s Going Places – a song we like that’s ‘going somewhere.’	Colin Jackson
Gillan, Ian	Strange Kinda Friendship – Ian Gillan and … me?	Some say you should never meet your hero. Alan Fairley’s so glad he DID.	Alan Fairley
Kwesi Johnson, Linton (& John Cooper Clarke)	They’re a Poet, Don’t You Know It.	…  song that you think has fantastic lyrics, or one you like because of the lyrics, and say a bit about why you love it.’	Colin Jackson
N/A	Tonto	The Original New Timbral Orchestra	John Allan
N/A	Take A Trip.	What music-related destination, from anywhere in the world, would you want to visit / re-visit?	Colin Jackson
N/A	Eurovision	Australia in Eurovision? Go figure …	John Allan
N/A	Art For Art’s Sake.	Did you ever buy an LP on the basis of an attractive album sleeve?	Paul Fitzpatrick
N/A	Now That’s What I Call Compilation Music.	The popularity of budget price ‘Hallmark’ & ‘MVP’ compilations in The ’70s.	Colin Jackson
N/A	Apollo Mission	The day I played The Apollo …	John Allan
N/A	No Apologies – Apollo’s the Best.	An appreciation of an iconic, Glasgow venue.	Colin Jackson
N/A	The HE-LP	A handy guide for devotees of the 1970s LP.	John Allan
N/A	Popping The Question.	OK – so what’s your favourite song?	Paul Fitzpatrick
N/A	If You’re Going To Star Alfresco.	Who says we can’t still rock out at Festivals at our age?	John Allan
Old Grey Whistle Test	OGWT 1972 – 1979	What made this iconic ’70s music show just SO successful.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Rolling Stones / Beatles	The Beatles -v- The Rolling Stones	The debate continues … not so much on the bands themselves (we all know the winners there! 😉 ) but on their respective record labels.	Colin Jackson
Scott, Tom	Tom Scott: Musician, Producer, Arranger.	An appreciation of the under-appreciated.	John Allan
Titanic	Out of the Blue	… debuts that came out of nowhere and really took listeners by surprise.	Colin Jackson
Various artists	Hold The Cheese, Please.	It gets inside your head, and won’t leave until you acknowledge and love it!	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	The Opening Act – A Musical Minefield.	‘If you want to be successful, open the show for Mott the Hoople.’	Alan Fairley
Various artists	Mello-Drama	Enter the Mellotron.	John Allan
Various artists	B3 or not B3	‘Interesting Electronic Keyboards of the Sixties and Seventies’	John Allan
Various artists	Christmas Disco Memories	With all the illicit booze that was swilling about, I’m surprised any of us can remember anything at all! 😀	Colin Jacksom
Various artists	I’m Just A Singer In A Rock ‘n’ Roll Band.	Come on! Whose voice is as good today as it was 50+ years ago?	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	Blue Eyed Soul	Can white men sing the soul?	John Allan
Various artists	Making Movies	Rock stars turn Movie stars.	Mark Arbuckle
Various artists	Yee Haw	Country & Western (Scotland) music	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	Ebony and Irony	A developed love of piano pieces … despite the trauma of music class at school! 😉	George Cheyne
Various artists	All That Jazz	Suburban Glasgow was the ‘in’ hang-out for hep cool cats of The ’70s.	John Allan
Various artists	It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Western Swing.	Country music has a knack of kinda just sneaking up on you …	John Allan
Various artists	Watch Me Now! (Dance Crazes of The ‘70s)	Impressing the girls through the art of dance … or not!	Colin Jackson
Various artists	Now That’s What I Call 1975!	1975 is a year that I always look back on with fondness.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	The Girl With Colitis Goes By.	Some of these artists need to improve their diction!	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	Golden Years.	The diversity of music in The ’70s.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	Summer 1972 – School’s Out.	Watching Top of the Pops in the summer of 1972.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	Now That’s What I Don’t Call Christmas!	A fun look at Christmas Hits.	George Cheyne
Various artists	More Sleigh Bells	Bah! Humbug! What makes a Christmas record, erm, ‘Christmassy?’	John Allan
Various artists	Cover Me	Cover versions.	Colin Jackson
Various artists	You Pays Your Money …	Buying an LP ‘blind’ … or maybe that should be ‘deaf.’	Colin Jackson
Various artists	1971 – the best year in music?	What was ‘music’s best year?’	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	That Was Great, But Who Played It?	Music’s unsung heroes.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	Live From The Apollo … It’s Star Time.	Live music … similarly named iconic venues.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	MOON-age Daydreams.	Music of the Seventies’ Youth Clubs.	Mark Arbuckle
Various artists	Wide-Eyed & Legless.	Alcohol in Music	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	Getting The Horn.	Don’t underestimate the power of a horn section.	John Allan
Various artists	Steely Pan	Steel drums in popular music	John Allan
Various artists	‘Whatever’ – as they say in Brazil.	The influence of Brazilian music.	John Allan
Various artists	Look Who’s Talking.	The ‘vox box’ in music.	John Allan
Various artists	Sound and Vision ( Music at the Movies.)	Does as it says ‘on the tin.’	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	Sold on Solos – Guitar	Three under-rated guitarists of The ’70s.	Colin Jackson
Various artists	Desert Island Distractions.	Three albums to entertain Paul on his desert island.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	Remember Then: ’50s in the ‘70s.	The Rockabilly revival of the late ’70s.	Colin Jackson
Various artists	Copy That.	‘Inspiration’ or ‘Plagiarism’ in ’70s music?	Colin Jackson
Various artists	Keep Me From The Gallus Poll.	“… and the winners are …. “	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	Guilty Pleasures	… songs we know we’ll be judged for liking.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	You Can’t Judge A Song By Its Cover.	The wonderful & sometimes surprising world of cover versions.	Paul Fitzpatrick
Various artists	Waterloo Sunset.	The influence of Continental Europe on the UK charts.	John Allan
Who; SAHB; Little Feat; The Outlaws; Streetwalkers.	The Tale of Two Keiths & The No. 64 Bus.	The Who Put The Boot In – Parkhead, Glasgow, 1976	Mark Arbuckle

POLLS

POLL SUBJECT	CONTRIBUTOR
We’ve Got It Covered: ’70s Cover Versions of ‘These Boots Are Made For Walking.’	Colin Jackson