1977

BILLY IDOL And AVRIL LAVIGNE Do It Together With ’77’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

23 April 2025


Press photo by Skyler Barberio

The white wedding idol is nominated for this year’s Rock and Roll of Fame induction.
and as communicated a month ago he recorded a new solo LP, his 9th and the first
in 11 years. It’s titled Dream Into It. It appears at the end of the week, April 25th.

Along with the announcement came the first single Still Dancing, a nod
to his first band Generation X’s 1981 hit Dancing With Myself, which he
kept playing as he went solo.

For the 2nd and probably final appetizer, he offers us his duet with rock chick Avril Lavigne. Together they go strong on retro roller 77, the year punk toke over the world.

Let’s roll.

Instagram – Website

20 Knockouts From 1977 – The Year Punk Broke

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Back in time

28 May 2023

And it did break big time (but let’s not forget Bowie‘s two ace albums Low and
Beauty And The Beast released that game-changing year). Legendary British music
weekly Sounds called it the year of the single. Yes, with punk it was all about the
return of the dead-cool 7″ vinyl.

Middle-finger commotion, not only in NYC but also with safety-pins fireworks in London. This documentary (hereunder) is pretty spicy featuring a spiky-hair cast of young famous (and less famous) rebels.

Turn Up The Volume‘s
selection of 20 from 1977.
God save lust for life.


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THE CURE – ASH – ELBOW – LPs Turning 25 – 25 – 20

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Back in time…

Band: THE CURE (UK)
Album: WILD MOOD SWINGS – 10th LP
Released: 7 May 1996 – 25 years ago

Trouser Press said: “A potent and sweeping dissertation on
melancholy and tentative dreams denied. Consistently compelling.”

Stream here…

THE CURE: Facebook

Band: ASH (UK)
Album: 1977 – debut LP
Released: 6 May 1996 – 25 years ago

BBC Music wrote: “To listeners of a certain vintage, Ash will
forever be summer holidays and half-inched hooch, stained
into the grey like a spilled alcopop.”

Stream here…

ASH: Facebook

Band: ELBOW
Album: ASLEEP IN THE BACK – debut LP
Released: 7 May 2001 – 20 years ago

AllMusic: “Elbow fiddles with a battery of widescreen dynamics
and slight prog-rock tendencies, delivering an epic debut of
Manchester miserablism.”

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ELBOW: Facebook

Boisterous Blast ‘GIRL FROM MARS’ By ASH – 1995

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17 January 2020

Band: Ash (Northern Ireland)
Song: Girl From Mars 
B-sides: Astral Conversations with Toulouse-Lautrec and Cantina Band
Released: 31 July 1995
Album: 1977 – the band’s second album released in 1996
Score The single reached #11 in the UK

Here comes the boisterous blast…

ASH: Facebook