70s Boy Ooh-la-la........

For me, as for many others in USSR of my generation, 1970s started with British Glam. They started with this, incredible Brian Connolly's voice:

Yes, we  listened to Deep Purple (Deep Purple In Rock, anyone), Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin (of course), we also listened to Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull and....you guessed it--Pink Floyd.  We also loved Nazareth and AC/DC. But it was British Glam, which captured the essence of the time--no shit, Sweet is in Def Leppard's videos, and it was also Slade who sang for us. For us the 70s ended, surprisingly, with 1987 wonderful piece by Slade:  

Listening today to these masterpieces, against the background of the wasteland of modern piece o' sh....I mean pop-music, I feel down and, yet, somehow uplifted. 

We were good, guys. We knew how to feel and it remains the classic case of the grass being, indeed, greener. The last gasp of that epoch was in Wayne's World and then.....it disappeared (did it?). But it is still out there, somewhere....

If you have children....show them the real art. I did.....

And this:

Or this, when being a gay was not an achievement but a tragedy and carrying a cross of a highest art:

That was the time when music was created by geniuses...........



 

Omega

One of the legends of the world's progressive rock, Hungarian stalwarts, Omega is going to play the concert hall of Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.  

 Omega and Christ The Savior Cathedral

For those who don't know what Omega is--they should start with Idorablo (The Time Stealer) and immortal Gammapolis--masterpieces of post-Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of The Moon and Wish You Were Here psychedelic rock.  Omega produced one of the most melodic and piercing masterpieces of the closing year of 1970s. 

And, of course, the best dancing Soviet (Hungarian) song of 1970-s:

And, of course, one of the best riffs of the 1970s, together with Deep Purple and Uriah Heep: