![]() That, of course, makes it a joy to listen to. It is clearly a time and a place the 30 year old Australian feels quite at home, and it has suffused the album with a rich, warm sense of soulfulness matched with lyrics of hope and optimism and a sense that life is going to be very good, maybe even great. Someone who also clearly recognises its richness is one Sam Sparro, who seems to have listened to many of the same records as my friend.Īnd it shows in his latest release, Return to Paradise, which is as faithful a tribute to this era as you’re likely to get, drawing on influences like Chaka Khan (how could he ignore that amazing talent?), Fleetwood Mac, and yes greats like Patti Labelle. Thankfully, I have a very good friend who loves any and all music from this golden era and has shared it with me on many occasions, whether I wanted him to or not – I have been mostly glad he has – so I have managed to get a sense of how musically rich a decade it was. OK confession #1 : I lived through ALL of the 1970s.Ĭonfession # 2: And in that time, I either listened to Evie and Nana Mouskouri (ask my parents about those choices please) or ABBA (obsessively this one was entirely my choice) or in the latter part of the decade, disco.Ĭonfession # 3: So consequently 70s funk passed me by completely, not helped of course by the fact that Australia wasn’t in the inner orbit of R & B Soul and missed much of the music anyway.
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