Huey Morgan looks at 1975 from BBC radio 2 Tracks Include Fame by David Bowie Shining Star by Earth Wind And Fire Fly Robin Fly by Silver Convention The group was initiated in Munich by producers and songwriters Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze. The group was named after Levay, "Silver" being Levay's nickname. Kunze had in the late 1960s been a pop lyricist who wrote protest songs in German; when these tunes went out of style, he began producing pop records and commercials. Levay had developed a taste for American music while growing up in Yugoslavia, eventually becoming a music arranger and lyricis
