Newt’s top 10 closing tracks of the seventies

By Steve Newton

Remember when the last track on an album would finish and you’d wish the music would just never end?

Me too.

Here’s 10 of my fave closing tracks from the seventies, in alphabetical order.

“All Right Now” (Fire and Water, Free, 1970)

“Call Me the Breeze” (Second Helping, Lynyrd Skynyrd, 1974)

“Four Strong Winds” (Comes a Time, Neil Young, 1978)

“Green Grass and High Tides” (The Outlaws, the Outlaws, 1975)

“Josie” (Aja, Steely Dan, 1977)

“Little Bit of Sympathy” (Bridge of Sighs, Robin Trower, 1974)

“Ooh La La” (Ooh La La, Faces, 1973)

“Shattered” (Some Girls, Rolling Stones, 1978)

“Takin’ Care of Business” (Bachman-Turner Overdrive II, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, 1973)

“The Secret Life of Arabia” (“Heroes”, David Bowie, 1977)

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