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This is one of the best covers from David Bowie recorded here from Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars Motion picture in 1973. An excellent piano led version appears on the album Aladdin Sane, also released in 1973.
David Bowie – Let’s Spend The Night Together

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Despite fitting the genre known as progressive rock in the early seventies, Hold Your Head Up was a big hit for Argent in 1972. Rod Argent had started out playing keyboards and songwriting for The Zombies in the early to mid sixties.
When The Zombies split up in 1968, Rod Argent formed Argent with fellow Zombie [...]

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I haven’t heard this song for ages, still sounds ok though. This was taken from Rod Stewart’s solo album Never A Dull Moment released in 1972, his follow up to the breakthrough album Every Picture Tells A Story.
Angel was written by Jimi Hendrix and appeared on the posthumous LP The Cry of Love released in [...]

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Yusulf Islam, best known as Cat Stevens had his first hit singles back in 1966, back then his music was pioneering and very different to the run of the mill chart music. Due to massive pirate radio airplay Matthew and Son reached number two in the UK charts, follow up singles I Love My Dog [...]

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David Bowie with the funky Golden Years performing on Soul Train in 1975. Bowie allegedly had to get himself drunk before he could perform on the show.
Golden Years is taken from the album Station to Station which was released in 1976. The album features the last of Bowie’s alter ego’s The Thin White Duke and [...]

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