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The title track of the Living in the 70’s album, recorded during June and July 1974 at the TCS Studios in Melbourne. The album, produced by Ross Wilson from the band Daddy Cool, broke all previous sales records for an Australian album.
Curator’s notes
Great social and political changes were occurring in Australia in the 1970s. In 1972, Gough Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party to victory after 23 years of the conservative Liberal Party in government. Australia withdrew from the Vietnam War and conscription, which was a dark spectre hovering over young men’s heads, ended in December 1972. As with any period of change, there is a feeling of instability – what was known has gone, and the shape of the future, and your part in it, is hard to predict. This sense of unease and dislocation is reflected in the lyrics of this track:
I feel a bit fragile
I feel a bit low
Like I learned the right lines
But I’m on the wrong show
I’m livin’ in the ’70s
I feel like I lost my keys
I got the right day
Got the wrong week…
