Few decades in rock music evoke such nostalgia as the 70s. The 70s in rock music have some of the best songs ever released, including these three. All out in 1974, these rock songs are so good that it\u2019s likely that every 70s kid can still sing them from memory today.<\/p>\n
\u201cI Shot The Sheriff\u201d by Eric Clapton<\/p>\n
Before Eric Clapton released \u201cI Shot The Sheriff<\/a>\u201d, it was first released by Bob Marley, who wrote the song. But it\u2019s Clapton\u2019s version that is the most well-known. A multi-platinum hit for Clapton, \u201cI Shot The Sheriff\u201d was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n Marley had the idea to write the song about a young man in Jamaica who is falsely accused. Clapton later admits<\/a> he didn\u2019t want to do the song because he was afraid he would not do it as well as Marley. Fortunately, Marley heartily approved of Clapton\u2019s version. <\/p>\n \u201cI Shot The Sheriff\u201d says, \u201cAll around in my home town \/ They\u2019re trying to track me down \/ They say they want to bring me in guilty \/ For the killing of a deputy \/ For the life of a deputy \/ But I say \/ I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense \/ I shot the sheriff, and they say it is a capital offense.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTell Me Something Good\u201d by Rufus<\/p>\n The band Rufus includes \u201cTell Me Something Good<\/a>\u201d on their sophomore Rags To Rufus record. The song is written by Stevie Wonder. Wonder allowed Rufus <\/a>to record the song because he was a fan of the group\u2019s lead singer, Chaka Khan.<\/p>\n \u201cTell Me Something Good\u201d remains one of the most memorable hits of the 70s. The song says, \u201cYou ain\u2019t got no kind of feeling inside\u00a0 I got something that\u2019ll sure enough set your stuff on fire \/ You refuse to put anything before your pride, yeah \/ Well, what I go will knock all your pride aside \/ Tell me something good, yeah \/ Tell me that you love me, yeah \/ Tell me something good \/ Tell me that you like it, yeah.\u201c<\/p>\n \u201cTell Me Something Good\u201d was a hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the R&B chart.<\/p>\n \u201cRock Me Gently\u201d by Andy Kim<\/p>\n \u201cRock Me Gently\u201d was written by Andy Kim, who included the song on his 1973 self-titled record. Out as a single one year later, \u201cRock Me Gently\u201d is Kim\u2019s first No. 1 single in five years. It is also the final one of his career.<\/p>\n An uptempo tune, \u201cRock Me Gently\u201d says, \u201cTouching you, so warm and tender \/ Lord, I feel such a sweet surrender \/ Beautiful is the dream that makes you mine. Mm, rock me gently, rock me slowly \/ Take it easy, don\u2019t you know \/ That I have never been loved like this before.\u201d<\/p>\n Photo by Michael Putland\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few decades in rock music evoke such nostalgia as the 70s. The 70s in rock music have some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2616,88,216,2156],"class_list":["post-639008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1970s","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}