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Year:1980
Date:11/10/1980
Show no:388
Summary:COUNTDOWN 'END OF THE DECADE'.THIS WEEKS SHOW HOSTED BY MOLLY MELDRUM(WITHOUT HAT) IS A SUMMARY OF THE 1970'S. THE PROGRAME PROGRESSES THROUGH EACH YEAR OF THE DECADE BOTH MUSICALLY AND HISTORICALLY. MOLLY INTERVIEWS SINGERS AND BANDS FROM THIS PERIOD FOCUSING ON WHO THEY BELIEVE WERE THE MAJOR INFLUENCES IN MUSIC DURING THIS TIME.
ARTISTS
IV LARRY STINE,SINGER, BELIEVES THE BEATLES WERE THE BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON THE 1970'S(1.53)
IV BJORN FROM THE ROCK GROUP ABBA BELIEVES THE BEATLES WERE MOST IMPORTANT INFLUENCE(2.23)
IV CAROL BAYER SAYER, SINGER, STATES HOW IMPORTANT THE BEATLES WERE BUT IT IS A NEW GENERATION NOW WHO DON'T KNOW THEIR MUSIC(2.44)
IV MAURICE GIBB FROM ROCK GROUP THE BEE GEES BELIEVES THE BEATLES SET MOST OF THE TRENDS(2.54)
IV PAUL MCCARTNEY MEMBER OF THE ROCK GROUP THE BEATLES STATES THAT THE BEATLES WON'T GET BACK TOGETHER(3.20) EXCERPT FROM THE BEATLES 'LET IT BE'(3.38)
IV ROD STEWART, SINGER, RE HIS LAST ALBUM ATLANTIC CROSSING, THE INFLUENCES ON HIS MUSIC AND THE INFLUENCE ELTON JOHN HAS HAD ON THE 1970'S(5.02)
EXCERPT OF 'IF NOT FOR YOU' OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN(8.28)
EXCERPT OF 'BANKS OF THE OLD OHIO' OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN(9.03)
IV OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, SINGER, RE WORK, THE STYLES SHE LIKES TO SING AND BELIEVES THAT SINGERS SUCH AS STEVIE WONDER HAVE INFLUENCED THE 1970'S(9.10)
EXCERPT OF 'EAGLE ROCK'(12.29)LIST OF EVENTS IN 1972(13.20)
IV MARK VOLMAN FROM THE GROUP FIO AND EDDIE, DOES NOT LIKE THE MUSIC THAT CAME OUT OF THE 1970'S
IV BETTE MIDLER, SINGER, RE WHO HAD THE BEST VOICES OF 1970'S(15.31)IV PETER GABRIEL, WHO TALKS ABOUT THE NEW BANDS THAT EMERGED DURING THE 1970'S(16.23)
IV JOHNNY ROTTEN BELIEVES THE RECORD SALES OF ARTISTS DEPENDS ON WHO YOU KNOW(16.42)
IV SHAUN CASSIDY,SINGER, TALKS ABOUT 1970'S IV LEO SAYER, SINGER RE YOU HAVE TO DEDICATE YOUR LIFE
TO MUSIC TO REALLY ACHIEVE SOMETHING(17.10)
IV SUZI QUATRO, SINGER, DOES NOT BELIEVE IN DISCUSSING MUSIC IN TERMS OF DECADES IT SIMPLY DEPENDS ON IF SHE LIKES THE MUSIC OR NOT(17.37)
IV THE KNACK, ROCK GROUP, BELIEVE THE 1970'S WAS A TIME TO SIMPY GET OVER THE 1960'S(17.50)
IV CLIFF RICHARD, SINGER SAYS HE IS BOUND TO BE AN INFLUENCE ON THE 1970'S BECAUSE HE WAS A PART OF THE 1960'S(17.56)
IV STEVE HARLEY, SINGER, TALKS ABOUT MUSIC OF THE 1970'S(18.14)
IV ELTON JOHN ,SINGER, TALKS ABOUT HOW BANDS HAVE GAINED A LOT MORE CONTROL FINANCIALLY DURING THE 1970'S AND ABOUT HIS CAREER AT THIS POINT(19.11)
LIST OF EVENTS DURING 1974, THE YEAR COUNTDOWN BEGAN AND THE EFFECTS IT HAD ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. VERY QUICK EXCERPTS OF VARIOUS AUSTRALIAN BANDS(24.10) IV BRIAN FERRY, FROM ROXY MUSIC WHO TALKS ABOUT THEIR VIDEO CLIPS AND HOW THE BAND IS REGARDED AS VERY DIFFERENT(26.41)
IV BOB GELDOF FROM THE BOOM TOWN RATS, TALKS ABOUT THE EMERGENCE OF THE VIDEO AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS(28.31)
IV GARRY NEWMAN SINGER, TALKS ABOUT THE 1970'S(29.03)
LIST OF EVENTS DURING 1975(30.30)
EXCERPT OF SKYHOOKS 'EGO'(31.14)
IV SHIRLEY STRACHAN FROM SKYHOOKS, HE TALKS ABOUT HOW THE BAND WAS FORMED(32.31)
EXCERPT OF 'MAMA MIA' ABBA(35.67)
IV BJORN FROM ABBA WHO TALKS ABOUT THEIR NEW ALBUM(36.31)
EXCERPT OF 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY' QUEEN(37.31)
EXCERPT OF 'HOTEL CALIFORNIA'(41.51)
EXCERPT FORM 'I'M NOT IN LOVE' 10CC(43.32)
IV ALICE COOPER SINGER STATES THAT THE POWER OF THE PRODUCER GREATLY INCREASED DURING THE 1970'S AND THAT THEY CAN MAKE ANYONE SOUND GOOD.(44.45)
EXCERPTS OF SEVERAL JOHN PAUL YOUNG SONGS(47.38)
IV DARYL BRAITHWAITE FROM THE ROCK GROUP SHERBET, RE WHAT TYPE OF MUSIC SHERBET MAKES AND WHAT THEY WILL BE DOING IN THE 1980'S(48.34)
IV WITH THE LITTLE RIVER BAND RE HOW THE BAND HAS WORKED WELL AND WHY, AND WHAT THEY WILL DO IN THE
1980'S(51.55)
A SERIES OF VERY SHORT EXCERPTS OF VARIOUS ARTISTS(54.54)
IV PAUL COOK FROM THE 'SEX PISTOLS' TALKS ABOUT THE 1970'S(61.22)
IV KATE BUSH, SINGER, TALKS ABOUT HER MUSIC(61.34)
IV LEIF GARRETT, SINGER, STATES THAT DURING THE 1970'S PUNK ROCK GROUPS WERE MUCH CHEAPER THAN OTHERS(62.22)
IV STEVIE WONDER WHO TALKS ABOUT HOW ANY VIOLENCE ASSOCIATED WITH MUSIC IS BAD(63.07)
EXCERPT OF 'STAYING ALIVE' BEE GEES AND IV MAURICE GIBB(64.42)
IV THE DOOBIE BROTHERS WHO BELIEVE THAT MUSIC IS TOO READILY LABELLED IE DISCO MUSIC(68.45)
EXCERPT OF 'I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS' BOOMTOWN RATS(62.48)
EXCERPT OF 'HEART OF GLASS' BLONDIE AND AN INTERVIEW WITH THE BAND WHO DISCUSS WHO THEY BELIEVE INFLUENCED THE 1970'S(64.54)
IV WITH THE POLICE WHO TALK ABOUT HOW THEY BECAME SUCCESSFUL AND WHO INFLUENCED THEM.

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