70s

This page tells you about the best songs from the 70s from our perspective, out of all of the billions of songs written then, we picked our top ones..........!!

1)Stevie wonder- Isn't she lovely

Born May 13th 1950

Was blinded shortly after birth

2) Bob Dylan-Knocking on heavens door
May 24th 1941
has been an influential figure in pop music for 5 decades

3)Elvis Presley- Jailhouse rock

January 8th 1935

Died because of  myocardial infarction which is the destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle. On the loo!!

4)Deep purple-Smoke on the Water

They were once in the guinness world records book for 'globe's loudest band'

They were formed in hertford in 1968

5)Bob Marley- No woman No cry

It was released in 1974.

It was one of the last time the three original Wailers (Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Neville "Bunny" Livingstone) recorded together in a studio.

6)Beatles- Let it be

Let It Be was originally intended to be released before Abbey Road during mid-1969 as Get Back, but The Beatles were unhappy with this version, which was mixed and compiled by Glyn Johns, and it was temporarily shelved. A new version of the album was created by Phil Spector in 1970 and finally released as Let It Be.

7)The Slits- Typical girls

The Slits were a British punk rock band. The quartet was formed in 1976 by members of the bands The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators. This song was also called I Heard it through the Grape Vine.

8)Led Zeppelin- Stairway to heaven

It is 8 minutes and 2 seconds long.Stairway to Heaven was voted #3 in 2000 by VH1 on its list of the 100 Greatest Rock Songs and was placed at number 31 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It was the most requested song on FM radio stations in the United States in the 1970s, despite never having been officially released as a single there.

9)The Eagles- Hotel california
In 2009, the song "Hotel California" was certified Platinum (Digital Sales Award) by the RIAA for sales of 1,000,000 digital downloads.Glenn Frey described the origins of the song: "The song began as a demo tape, an instrumental by Don Felder. But this particular demo, unlike many of the others, had room for singing. It immediately got our attention. The first working title, the name we gave it, was ‘Mexican Reggae'."

 

10)Abba- Dancing Queen
The demo was called "Boogaloo" and as the sessions progressed, Andersson and Ulvaeus found inspiration to the dance rhythm in George McCrae's disco classic "Rock Your Baby", as well as the drumming on Dr. John's 1972 album Dr. John's Gumbo. Fältskog and Lyngstad recorded the vocals on sessions in September, and the track was completed three months later.