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Children Of The Revolution: Golden Years Of Glam Rock III (1971-1976) – Mixcloud Exclusive

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C-Heads Magazine Enjoy another part of golden years of glam rock! Expect seventies fun, energy, extravaganza and swopped genders. The genre with singalong hooks, out of tune saxophones and heavy drum beats became big in Europe in the first part of the decade and was fore fronted by Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex. Shortly after its decline, disco borrowed the looks from glam and punk the straightforwardness of the music. The New Romantic movement, which started as a fashion subculture in British nightclubs in the late 1970s, before becoming a mainstream music genre a few years later, was also inspired by the visuals of the glam rock era. And even some superstars of today, like Lady Gaga and Chappell Roan, are clearly indebted to glam rock in terms of their outfits.  “I drive a Rolls Royce 'Cause it’s good for my voice” (Children Of The Revolution) The single covers of the original German, Dutch, Belgian and Spanish releases show John Knowles (who later adopted the stage name John Ki...
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Disco File Top 40 – September 26, 1981

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Pexels Enjoy the Record World Disco File Top 40, dated on September 26, 1981!  In the 1980s the most authentic disco could be find on the Record World Disco File chart. Unfortunately the Disco File charts disappeared in 1982, while the Billboard disco dance chart became a strange mix of all kinds of genres over the decade. One of them was surprisingly British new wave. Names like Soft Cell, Simple Minds, Altered Images, Pete Shelley, A Flock Of Seagulls, Haircut One Hundred, Human League and Thompson Twins popped up. They were played a lot probably in the (alternative) clubs those days and although these acts recorded some very good songs, their music is neither disco nor dance.  On the Disco File Top 40 of September, 26 1981, electronics slowly took over the chart with acts like Lime, K.I.D, Kraftwerk and Patrick Cowley, which was a sign of things to come. Tracklist: Roger – So Ruff, So Tuff [Gazeebo Edit] Kid Creole & The Coconuts – Going Places [Zemix Version] Gwen M...
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Sunshine Radio: Southern California’s Best Mix (1974-1982)

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C-Heads Magazine Enjoy this new episode of Sunshine Radio , again with some long forgotten radio fragments! The tracks by Kim Et Moi, Giorgio Lopez and State Cows are brand new. Gary Fane (Geert Veen) was born in my home town Groningen in 1942. He seemed to come from nowhere when he launched his ambitious concept album Horoscope , his musical interpretation of the zodiac, in 1980. At the time only a few people were aware that he was the original singer of The Surfers, known for the European, Beach Boys inspired hit Windsurfin' a few years earlier. Like Milli Vanilli, the tv-performances of the single were lip-synced by models, because Gary Fane himself was already in his late thirties when this song about high school fun was on the pop chart. He passed away in 2019. Horoscope has recently been remastered and re-issued. Until this day Evie Sands remains a very underrated singer/songwriter, although she has received more appreciation in recent years, especially in the English North...
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Late Summer Grooves: Seventies Jazz-Funk by The Smooth Operators

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The Smooth Operators  (=Martijn Soetens & Professor Eddy) celebrate their upcoming 10th anniversary (October 14, 2025) with some superb seventies jazz-funk! 😀 One of the tracks is Summer Madness by Kool & the Gang. Khalis Bayyan of the band arranged the track that was originally called You Don't Have To Change . It was composed by trumpet player Robert "Spike" Mickens and Elton Taylor. Bayyan gave the track the significant sound with the Arp 2600, a new instrument at the time. After working for Motown, Larry and Alphonso (Fonce) Mizell started their own production company Sky High in the early 1970s. They began to work for several artists, like Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey and Johnny Hammond. The two brothers created a unique multi-layered sound that shimmered somewhere between funk, jazz, soul and disco. After having huge commercial success with A Taste of Honey ( Boogie Oogie Oogie ) at the end of the decade, the Mizell brothers suddenly stopped producing and p...
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Funky Chillin’ On A Sunshine Afternoon

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Pixabay Let’s just chillout on a sunshine afternoon, to paraphrase the song by Collage! 😊 The new EP by Glam Sam & His Combo marks the beginning of a new chapter for both Glam Sam (Mats Samuelsson) and singer Angelina. A few months ago, Mats came across Angelina’s soulful vocals while listening to the debut album from the Monks Road Social project. With tracks featuring artists like Dr. Robert of The Blow Monkeys and Mick Talbot of The Style Council, he was instantly struck by Angelina's voice, particularly in the song Golden Day which she had co-written with Miles Copeland. After hearing it, Mats was eager to connect with her: “I reached out to Angelina straight away. Her voice just bowled me over. It's so cool and unique. I just had to work with her.” Two years ago, the composer Skinshape met the young Brazilian talent Pedro Mizutani. From this chemistry comes a collaboration where the burning sands of Rio blend with the icy bricks of London. Their first EP, released a ...
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Smooth Sailing: Classic 70s Yacht Pop/Rock

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Pexels Some classic 70s yacht pop/rock, perfect to play on a boat trip along the West Coast with a drink in your hand and good company on your side!😊 The only exception is the track by Young Gun Silver Fox, which is from the new compilation Too Slow To Disco Neo: The Sunset Manifesto 2 . Enjoy! In the mid-seventies successful Dutch band The Cats went to Los Angeles to record with the best West Coast musicians around at the time. Top notch musicians like Jeff Porcaro, David Foster and Larry Carlton played on their LP Hard To Be Friends . The track How Did You Feel is a L.A. recording from the album, but I don’t know who actually played on it. I Know That I’m Dreaming by the mysterious The Exchange & Mart is from the compilation Occasional Rain by Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs (Saint Etienne): “This is England, the day after the 60s. It’s a time of flux. On the cusp of progressive rock but without a rule book, many groups hold fast to psychedelia’s adventurousness and melodic deligh...
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Reeling In The Years – Yacht Rock History 1977 (Mixcloud Exclusive)

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Tom Rompel Enjoy this new episode of Reeling In The Years as a Mixcloud Exclusive ! In 1977 yacht rock began to take shape with two pivotal albums: Aja by Steely Dan and Livin' On The Fault Line by The Doobie Brothers. The smooth sound started to spread like an oil stain. Photographer Tom Rompel about the Volkswagen Beetle: "Back then this was the reminder of the Nazi regime. The California boys turned it into the Beach Buggy in 1970s. And then times changed and we all remember how good it was to run that beach buggy on the skirts of a rising tides." Graham Nash wrote Just A Song Before I Go on a bet. David Crosby explained in the liner notes to their 1991 boxed set: "Graham was about to go off on tour. The guy who was going to take him to the airport said, 'We've got 15 minutes, I'll bet you can't write a song in that amount of time.' Well you don't smart off to Nash like that, he'll do it. This is the result." Going to the airpo...
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