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    • The Carpenters – Goodbye to Love
    • Al Green – How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
    • Big Star – September Gurls
    • Thelma Houston – Don’T Leave Me This Way
    • Dolly Parton – Jolene
    • Harry Nilsson – Without You
    • Bob Dylan – If You See Her, Say Hello
    • Nazareth – Love Hurts
    • Hall & Oates – She’S Gone
    • Bruce Springsteen – Backstreets

    Karen Carpenter’s silky vocals may be as easy on the ear as ever, but absolutely nothing else about this despairing tale of romantic failure makes for easy listening. “No one ever cared if I should live or die … all I know of love is how to live without it,” Karen croon’s creamily, thus making us feel simultaneously soothed and completely hopeless ...

    In 1971, the Bee Gees scored their first US No.1 single with How Can You Mend a Broken Heart. When the brothers sang it, it was about the band coming back together following time apart. “Robin came to my place,” Barry explained years later, “and that afternoon we wrote ‘How Can You Mend a Broken Heart’ and that obviously was a link to us coming bac...

    Like most of Big Star’s output, September Gurls wasn’t a commercial success. That doesn’t make it any less magnificent though. Described by AllMusicas having a “sweetly gorgeous sound that’s both familiar and novel; poignantly ragged and breathlessly reckless…” and by Michael Chabon as “the greatest number-one song that never charted,” it’s a class...

    In 1975, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes released Don’t Leave Me This Way, a desperate plea from the heart that begs a lover “Don’t leave me this way/ I can’t survive/ Can’t stay alive/ Without your love/ Don’t leave me this way.” A year later, Thelma Houston took it and turned it into a disco classic. After topping both the US soul singles chart an...

    On Dolly Parton’sJolene, the breakup is still on the horizon, but considering the charms of the green-eyed vixen Parton finds herself pleading with, you know it’s already a done deal. Or perhaps not… the song was inspired when a flame-haired bank teller got a little too friendly with Parton’s husband, Carl Dean. 50 years later, the pair are still t...

    What would a list of the greatest breakup songs of the 1970s be without at least one entry from the grandmaster of heartbreak, Harry Nilsson? Originally recorded by British rockers Badfinger for their 1970 album No Dice, Nilsson added a hefty dollop of histrionics and heart and took the song to the top of the charts in the US, Australia, Canada, an...

    1975’s Blood on the Tracks is the ultimate breakup album. Written by Bob Dylanas his relationship with wife Sara Lowndes crumbled, it moves from vengeance to reflection, recrimination to guilt. If You See Her, Say Hello is one of its highlights. Unutterably sad, it finds Dylan crushed by the weight of history… resigned, sad, broken, still holding o...

    Love Hurts got its first outing in 1960 at the hands of the Everly Brothers. Fifteen years later, Scottish hard rockers Nazareth put their own spin on the classic on the album Hair of the Dog. Released as a single in 1975, it hit the U.S. Top 10 and peaked at No. 1 in Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, and Norway. For a very different ...

    In 1973, Hall & Oatespeaked at No.60 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with She’s Gone. Three years later, their new label, Atlantic Records, decided to re-release it. This time around, it was a major hit, charting at No. 7. Written by Oates after a girlfriend stood him up on New Year’s Eve, it chronicles those days after a breakup when you realize it...

    You wouldn’t expect anything on Bruce Springsteen’s1975 classic Born to Run to fall short of the mark, and Backstreets certainly doesn’t do that. Few songs, either from the Boss or anyone else, have managed to so perfectly capture the ups and downs of a love affair as it rumbles to its inevitable conclusion. Complex, ambitious, and utterly epic, it...

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