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1975 Rock and Roll
Speaking of some “true rock and roll” songs 1975 was a very good year. John Lennon released Imagine, Queen released Bohemian Rhapsody, and these awesome songs were rocking the airwaves:
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I’m pretty sure Imagine was from 1971, Jung!
But 1975 was a productive year for another Beatle:
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David, you are right Imagine was released in 1971, but for some reason saw it on a top 100 rock songs list for 1975, but charting at 74, so I am guessing even after 4 years the song was still charting and made it into the top 100 for 1975.
Nice Paul McCartney song. Here is one from Elton John I remember from the 70s.
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Jung
Great post my friend. Yes there was still a bit of rock and roll in 1975 for sure. Before Disco held ground. One thing I remember in 1975 was the Rolling Stones with Ronnie Wood as replacement for Mick Taylor and the Stones did a flat bed truck gig in the heart of New York to kick off their 1975 tour of the America’s. So cool and they did Brown Sugar. Linda Rhonstandt was on a roll as well. As well as Lynard Skynard and Bad Company with their album Straight Shooter with Feel like making love hit. Wow I could go on Jung but thank you for this great post
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Thanks Bill. Some great songs from the Stones in the 70s for sure. And yeah Bad Company and Feel Like Making Love is an incredible rocker. May be send the young ones out of the room for this one. Love the guitar riffs!
I guess that’s rock and roll, cuts straight to the core sometimes, not for the faint of heart.
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One of the best from rock and roll dome!
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I don’t think any edgy rock list would be complete without some guitar licks from the Young brothers from down under. Though this one is from 1980, I think everyone here can agree to this message. I hear a little Chuck Berry here.
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And in 2021 Rock and Roll is indeed alive and well with these rocking sisters. Can’t wait to see this incredible rock and roll song unleash on Youtube. Maybe inject some rock and roll back into the Billboard charts!
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Let’s not forget,Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records and Columbia Records, their first release for the latter. Based on material Pink Floyd composed while performing in Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded over numerous sessions throughout 1975 at Abbey Road Studios in London.
It’s hard to believe these songs are over forty years old, already.JP-
JP, I’m glad you mentioned Pink Floyd. My rock and roll experience could not be complete without this one.
Put on the headphones, turn down the lights, or lay outside in the dark under the stars, and maybe have your favorite beverage with you, and turn on “Shine On You Crazy Diamond/Welcome to the Machine”. Turn up the volume!!!! Let the music take over!
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Some stuff I like from 1975 though I was only around 7/8, and yes I liked some Disco, I loved to sing along while listening to radio or albums, cassette tapes, 8 track tapes and dancing, Disco was great for dancing…especially at weddings, I was tge Mini Dancing Singing Jukebox out on dance floor….lol
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Hi Jacki, I have to admit some of the disco sounded interesting when it first came out. Some Bee Gees like Jive Talking and Staying Alive.
In 1975 I was only 12 too, but all these great 70s rock songs were still very popular everywhere a few years later by the time I was in high school. I recall the big Canadian rock bands The Guess Who and BTO were big in the early 70s and heard a lot of their stuff. Here is a BTO gem from 1975.
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Ahhh, 1975! I was 17 years old. Here’s a good one, Grand Funk! “Bad Time”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfid-_BFUZM
How about some “Sister golden hair”?
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Nice ones Thomas! Sister Golden Hair is one of my faves from the 70s. I also like Grand Funk Railroad’s version of “Locomotion”. They are great.
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1975 was a big year down under as ACDC released two albums “High Voltage”, and “TNT”. This was a new kind of rock and roll sound the world has not heard before. 45 years later in 2020 they are still going strong with a new album “Power Up”. They meant it when they sang their 1980 song Rock n Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution.
“Rock ‘n’ roll ain’t noise pollution
Rock ‘n’ roll it will survive (yes it will)”
Here Malcom Young rocks out on his famous red Gretsch 6131 Jet Firebird.
Malcolm Young owned and played several guitars throughout his career with AC/DC, however, he is most commonly known for his use of Gretsch guitars: 1963 Gretsch Jet Firebird – This is his very first Gretsch 6131 which became known as “The Beast”.
https://youtu.be/E-kO70b6U_A?t=1
It’s funny how Bon Scott’s microphone cable got caught on his foot as he performed.
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I think if you took The Kinks, The Who, a little Hendrix, and mixed them in a blender, you might get this:
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I didn’t discover AC/DC until Back In Black 1980. I was 15 that year. My older friends were just getting their drivers licenses, so along with that came the odyssey of car stereos, cassette decks, power boosters, equalizers, and if you didn’t have Jensen speakers you didn’t have speakers. We were so competitive about it. I remember endless debates of TDK vs Maxell. I always though TDK tapes had more hiss.
Back then, the kool kids would buy the vinyl, record it on a cassette, and then never play the vinyl to keep it scratch free. Some would tweak the crap out of the EQ and claimed it sounded better than the band’s mix. It didn’t , but they were older so just nod and smile and say “Kool man!”
It sounds silly now. But with that came a lot of great music being played at the correct volume and EQ out of the trunk of our cars. When I go nostalgic I can’t help imagine what 17 year old me would have thought of an iPhone.
“All your music is in here? And it transmits to your stereo via your teeth? What if you have braces? And you can ask it anything, like Captain Kirk? And you can call people with it?”
“Ya, but my parents can track me with it.”
“Throw that away!”
it’s funny, Jung. Sometimes when you do threads like this, I end up on a deep dive of bands I haven’t listened to in a while. Here’s a fine example how awesome AC/DC was. Bag pipes? and it works?!
JP
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