@Gusman Someone else has posted another hit song of theirs, which I hadn’t heard before. Their sound definitely captures that mid-70s sound

@Rickichickie interesting bit of trivia! Thanks for sharing

@Ghostinthemachine you live and learn 🧑‍🎓

@Rickichickie I’m still doing both 🤞

@dragonfly46 Such a detailed, vivid picture you paint, and I can relate, especially to those hot asphalt parking lots in my bare feet!

@Ghostinthemachine The song took me way back. Could smell the ocean and taste the salt on my tongue.

@dragonfly46 Such sweet memories, and it’s amazing how many of them are tied to music.

@Rickichickie sad lyrics to a catchy tune, which begs the question, do I dance or drink to it?

@Ghostinthemachine both! Celebrate life and lost loves. Cheers! 🍻

@Rickichickie I like the way you think 🥂

@Adstar I think back in the 70s, at least until the disco era really got into full swing, how you looked didn’t really matter as much, as long as the music was good. I wish that was still true today, where image seem to take precedence

@Ghostinthemachine Well when Radio was the main promoter of music.. Your success was 100% linked to the quality of the music you produced because most people would have no idea how you looked.. But after programs like MTV started your visual presence became a factor.. That's when you started to get the dancing models types with the voices electronically boosted artificially being promoted..

@Sidewinder Very good! I’m curious about the movie now…

@whowasthatmaskedman excellent! It does sound like a James Bond intro song

Is the movie any good?

@Ghostinthemachine I am not qualified as movie critic. But it didnt become a classic...The full movie is on You Tube 😷
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@whowasthatmaskedman your link isn’t available where I am, but I’ll source it out and give it a try, thanks for sharing

@Jenny1234 I don’t have a specific memory, but it does capture that time, that feeling of nostalgia for me of growing up in the 70s.
Life for me seemed much simpler and full of wonder and optimism

@Ghostinthemachine I feel the same way about the seventies.

@Ghostinthemachine Never heard that song and it never charted in Australia.

@Gusman What’s a song that was big in Australia that never charted in North America or England?

@Ghostinthemachine
New Zealand band - Dragon had a hit with - Are You Old Enough?
Never made the UK or US charts.

Reviewed at the time of release, South Australian music magazine Roadrunner said the song was, "Their best yet. This band continues to make superb sounding singles (this will be No 1 for sure) and continue to be the most sexist band in the country. This one, about f*cking young women and going to prison for it is their most offensive yet."

David Nichols described the song as, "essentially a paean to underage sex, perhaps even pedophilia. A glowing, irresistible pop tune, sung delectably by Marc Hunter with uncredited backing vocal from Renée Geyer, it is a virtually flawless pop record, its subversive nature being an essential element of this status."

"When we'd go on the road Paul Hewson would bring a small bag with a few clothes and a chess set. He wrote most of "Are you old enough" on a nylon string guitar out on the water in a dinghy off Magnetic Island with a couple of girls who he wasn't too sure about".

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@Bexsy I think it was a minor hit, but it kinda grows on you.
Watch, you’ll be humming it, Sidekick 😉

@HumanEarth Do you like it, are you dancing to it?

@HumanEarth

@bijouxbroussard They were one hit wonders, so hard to remember their name. But the song has come back to me…many years later 😊

@Iwillwait Astute observation, as I think it was used in an action film starring George Lazenby, who also played James Bond in On Her Majestys Secret Service.

@Ghostinthemachine Very cool!

@Atlotto catchy, ain’t it?

@Musicman so am I 😂

@Thodsis you don’t think it’s real?