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The Case For 1971 As Rock's Greatest Year That year, music journalist David Hepworth argues, offered an explosion of talent from David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Al Green, John Lennon and more. He ...
All of the songs we just heard were recorded or became hits in the year 1971. They're great for a summer holiday playlist, which is why we have pulled this next interview out of the NPR archives.
Fifty years later, we count down the greatest albums of 1971 by Rock and Roll Hall of Famers. Limiting the list to inductees ruled out amazing work from Jethro Tull, Gil-Scott-Heron, Can, Harry ...
The “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” filmmakers aren’t out to make a claim for supremacy, just relevancy… though it may be hard to make a case that, in rock and R&B, at least ...
Released on the band’s 1971 album, Who’s Next, this has to be one of the strangest rock hits of all time. But its uniqueness, with its opening sonic barrage, is one of the reasons it has ...
EDINA, Minn. (AP) — Joey Molland, a guitarist with the Welsh pop-rock band Badfinger that was known for such 1970s hits as “No Matter What” and “Day After Day,” has died at age 77 ...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2023's biggest chart hits for Willie Nelson, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Sheryl Crow, Chaka Khan and more.
A rock-and-roll legend behind some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s is dead at age 77. Rick Derringer died Monday in Ormond Beach, Florida, according to an announcement from his ...
But those blockbuster figures pale in comparison to the latter's Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975), which soared to 38 million sales in the U.S., making it the highest-certified album in RIAA history.
That year, music journalist David Hepworth argues, offered an explosion of talent from David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Al Green, John Lennon and more.... The Case For 1971 As Rock's Greatest Year What ...