If you were about to get laid in what the ’70s thought the Future was going to be—all lens flare and plastics—then this is the track that you’d play for mood music. Continue reading
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THIS WEEK IN THE BILLBOARD TOP 10: 1979
In America in May and June 1979, a British band that was born ten years earlier thanks to the whimsical support of a Dutch millionaire was an idea whose time had finally come. Continue reading
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THIS WEEK IN THE BILLBOARD TOP 10: MAY 3, 1975
However critical one might be of American musical tastes in the 1970s, one still has to give props to the variety of styles that appeared in the Top 10 for the week of May 3, 1975. Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire were at #1 and #3, respectively, while Led Zeppelin and Alice Cooper were at #2 and #10. A posthumous Jimi Hendrix album was #7, and a live John Denver record was #9. Continue reading
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THIS WEEK IN THE BILLBOARD TOP 10: 1976
Do you miss the popular music of the mid-1970s? I don’t, but then again, I wasn’t really alive enough to hear it the first time around. Continue reading
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