![]() In 2022, BMG acquired the rights to John Lee Hooker’s music interests and this is the first release since that acquisition other releases from that catalog are said to be following soon. Hooker Alone: Hunter College 1976 on BMG is the new record. ![]() Hooker played two sets that day, and a new double album features both, released together for the first time. ![]() A blues singer from Tutwiler (or Clarksdale), Mississippi, who was in his early 60s, took the stage at Hunter College to perform a set of songs accompanied by nothing but his electric guitar: that man was John Lee Hooker. In an alternate universe - in New York City - a concert took place that couldn't be further removed from the flash and pizzazz of the day's most popular music. For better - or worse - the five songs listed above, the five biggest-selling global singles of 1976, still stand as some of the most “produced” songs of the 20th century. If there is one commonality between those five songs, it’s the slick and glossy - perhaps even hedonistic - production values. Chicago’s “If You Leave Me Now” was a monster hit, as was Elton John and Kiki Dee’s, “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”. If we set our musical Wayback Machines to 1976 what do we find dominating the radio landscape? ABBA had two of their biggest singles that year, “Dancing Queen” and “Fernando” and Queen was king with “Bohemian Rhapsody”. ![]() John Lee Hooker's 1976 Hunter College Solo Appearance Released on Double Disc Vinyl New BMG Release Proves That Less is Sometimes More ![]()
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