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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Bad, Bad Leroy Brown: Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce is a song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album Life and Times, the song was a Number One pop hit for him, spending two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Bad, Bad Leroy Brown: Jim Croce</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="288" height="291" class="wp-image-36725 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-152.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-152.jpeg 288w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-152-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px" />Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce is a song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album <em>Life and Times</em>, the song was a Number One pop hit for him, spending two weeks at the top of the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 in July 1973. <em>Billboard</em> ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1973.</p>
<p>Croce was nominated for two 1973 Grammy awards in the Pop Male Vocalist and Record of the Year categories for &#8220;Bad, Bad Leroy Brown&#8221;. It was his last number-one single before his death on September 20.</p>
<p>The song&#8217;s title character is a tall man from the South Side of Chicago whose size, attitude, and tendency to carry weapons have given him a fearsome reputation. He is said to dress in fancy clothes and wear diamond rings, and to own a custom Lincoln Continental and a Cadillac Eldorado, implying he has a lot of money. One day in a bar he makes a pass at a pretty, married woman named Doris, whose jealous husband proceeds to beat Leroy brutally in the ensuing fight, which Leroy loses badly.</p>
<p>The story of a widely feared man being bested in a fight is similar to that of Croce&#8217;s earlier song &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Mess Around With Jim.&#8221;</p>
<p>Croce&#8217;s inspiration for the song was a friend he met in his brief time in the US Army:</p>
<p>I met him at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. We were in lineman (telephone) school together. He stayed there about a week, and one evening he turned around and said he was really fed up and tired. He went AWOL, and then came back at the end of the month to get his paycheck. They put handcuffs on him and took him away. Just to listen to him talk and see how &#8216;bad&#8217; he was, I knew someday I was gonna write a song about him.</p>
<p>He told a variation of this story on <em>The Helen Reddy Show</em> in July 1973:</p>
<p>This is a song about a guy I was in the army with&#8230; It was at Fort Dix, in New Jersey, that I met this guy. He was not made to climb the tree of knowledge, as they say, but he was strong, so nobody&#8217;d ever told him what to do, and after about a week down there he said &#8220;Later for this&#8221; and decided to go home. So he went AWOL—which means to take your own vacation—and he did. But he made the mistake of coming back at the end of the month to get his paycheck. I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve ever seen handcuffs put on anybody, but it was SNAP and that was the end of it for a good friend of mine, who I wrote this tune about, named Leroy Brown.</p>
<p>Croce explained the chorus reference to Leroy Brown being &#8220;meaner than a junkyard dog&#8221;:</p>
<p>Yeah, I spent about a year and a half driving those $29 cars, so I drove around a lot looking for a universal joint for a &#8217;57 Chevy panel truck or a transmission for a &#8217;51 Dodge. I got to know many junkyards well, and they all have those dogs in them. They all have either an axle tied around their necks or an old lawnmower to keep &#8217;em at least slowed down a bit, so you have a decent chance of getting away from them.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" width="1080" height="810" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EwPRm5UMe1A?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Love Train: The O’Jays</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="225" height="224" class="wp-image-36726 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-153.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-153.jpeg 225w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-153-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-153-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" />Love Train by The O’Jaysis a hit single by The O&#8217;Jays, written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Released in 1972, it reached number one on both the R&amp;B Singles and the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100, in February and March 1973 respectively, number 9 on the UK Singles Chart and was certified gold by the RIAA.</p>
<p>It was The O&#8217;Jays&#8217; first and only number-one record on the U.S. pop chart. &#8220;Love Train&#8221; entered the Hot 100&#8217;s top 40 on 27 January 1973, the same day that the Paris Peace Accords were signed. The song&#8217;s lyrics of unity mention a number of countries, including England, Russia, China, Egypt and Israel, as well as the continent of Africa.</p>
<p>Recorded at Philadelphia&#8217;s Sigma Sound Studios, the house band MFSB provided the backing. Besides its release as a single, &#8220;Love Train&#8221; was the last song on The O&#8217;Jays&#8217; album <em>Back Stabbers</em>. The O&#8217;Jays&#8217; &#8220;Love Train was a 2006 inductee into the Grammy Hall of Fame.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" width="1080" height="810" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QyT9jTW7MHc?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Photograph: Ringo Starr</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="320" height="320" class="wp-image-36727 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-154.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-154.jpeg 320w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-154-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-154-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-154-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px" />Photograph by Ringo Starris a song by English musician Ringo Starr that was released as the lead single from his 1973 album <em>Ringo</em>. Starr co-wrote the song with George Harrison, his former bandmate from the Beatles. Although the two of them collaborated on other compositions, it is the only song officially credited to the pair. A signature tune for Starr as a solo artist, &#8220;Photograph&#8221; became an international hit, topping singles charts in the United States, Canada and Australia, and receiving gold disc certification for US sales of 1 million. Music critics have similarly received the song favourably; Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic considers it to be &#8220;among the very best post-Beatles songs by any of the Fab Four&#8221;.</p>
<p>The lyrics are a reflection on lost love, whereby a photograph is the only reminder of the protagonists&#8217; shared past. Starr and Harrison began writing the song in the South of France in 1971, during a period when Starr was focused on developing his acting career. They first recorded &#8220;Photograph&#8221; late the following year, along with the single&#8217;s B-side, &#8220;Down and Out&#8221;, during sessions for Harrison&#8217;s <em>Living in the Material World</em> album (1973). The officially released version was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Richard Perry, and it incorporates aspects of Phil Spector&#8217;s Wall of Sound through the presence of multiple drums and acoustic guitars, as well as an orchestra and a choir. Aside from Starr and Harrison, the musicians on the recording include Nicky Hopkins, Bobby Keys, Jim Keltner, and Spector&#8217;s musical arranger, Jack Nitzsche. Starr made a promotional film for the single, shot at his and wife Maureen Starkey&#8217;s home, Tittenhurst Park.</p>
<p>&#8220;Photograph&#8221; has appeared on Starr&#8217;s compilation albums <em>Blast from Your Past</em> (1975) and <em>Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr</em> (2007), and live versions have featured on releases recorded with his All-Starr Band and with the Roundheads. In November 2002, a year after Harrison&#8217;s death, Starr sang &#8220;Photograph&#8221; at the Concert for George – a performance that was an emotional highpoint of the event</p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Half Breed: Cher</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="315" height="316" class="wp-image-36728 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-155.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-155.jpeg 315w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-155-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-155-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-155-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px" />Half Breed by Chers is a 1973 song recorded by American singer-actress Cher with instrumental backing by L.A. sessions musicians from the Wrecking Crew. Recorded on May 21, 1973 at Larrabee Sound in Los Angeles, it entered the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 at number 89 on August 4, 1973, and on October 6, 1973, it became Cher&#8217;s second US solo number 1 hit. The single was certified Gold in the US for the sales of over 1 million copies.</p>
<p>t was the first international release from Cher&#8217;s album <em>Half-Breed</em>. It was meant to be sold to the American market. It tells the story of a young woman who is half white and half Cherokee and describes the troubles faced by the main character. The song offers a scenario in which whites often called her &#8220;Indian squaw&#8221; and Native Americans never accepted her as one of their own, telling her that she was &#8220;white by law&#8221;.</p>
<p>In 1973, &#8220;Half-Breed&#8221; topped the United States <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 for two weeks, becoming Cher&#8217;s second solo and third overall number 1 hit, and second Gold certified solo single for the sales of over 1,000,000 copies. It was a number 1 hit in Canada and New Zealand, and a Top 10 hit in Australia and Norway respectively.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" width="1080" height="810" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z6E98ZRaU1s?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Bennie and the Jets: Elton John</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="316" height="316" class="wp-image-36729 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-156.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-156.jpeg 316w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-156-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-156-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-156-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px" />Bennie and the Jets by Elton Johnis a song composed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The song first appeared on the <em>Goodbye Yellow Brick Road</em> album in 1973. &#8220;Bennie and the Jets&#8221; has been one of John&#8217;s most popular songs and was performed during John&#8217;s appearance at Live Aid. The track is spelled <em>Benny</em> on the sleeve of the single and in the track listing of the album, but <em>Bennie</em> on the album vinyl disc label.</p>
<p>&#8220;Bennie and the Jets&#8221; was featured on side one of the <em>Goodbye Yellow Brick Road</em> album, and Elton John was set against releasing it as a single, believing it would fail. CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, began heavy airplay of the song and it became the #1 song in the Detroit market. This attention caused other American and Canadian Top 40 stations to add it to their playlists as well and as a result, the song peaked at #1 on the US singles chart in 1974. In the US, it was certified Gold on 8 April 1974 and Platinum on 13 September 1995 by the RIAA, and had sold 2.8 million copies by August 1976.</p>
<p>&#8220;Bennie and the Jets&#8221; was also John&#8217;s first Top 40 hit on what at the time was called the <em>Billboard</em> Hot Soul Singles chart, where it peaked at #15, the highest position out of the three of his singles which reached that chart. The acceptance of &#8220;Bennie&#8221; on R&amp;B radio helped land John, a huge soul music fan, a guest appearance on the 17 May 1975 edition of <em>Soul Train</em>, where he played &#8220;Bennie and the Jets&#8221; and &#8220;Philadelphia Freedom&#8221;. In Canada, it held the #1 spot on the <em>RPM</em> national singles chart for two weeks (13–20 April), becoming his first #1 single of 1974 and his fourth overall.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" width="1080" height="810" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZxeBccvWDRQ?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Band on the Run: Paul McCartney/Wings</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="316" height="316" class="wp-image-36731 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-158.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-158.jpeg 316w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-158-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-158-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-158-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px" />Band on the Run by Paul McCartney/WingsIs the title song of Paul McCartney and Wings&#8217; 1973 album <em>Band on the Run</em>. The song was released as a single in 1974, following the success of &#8220;Jet&#8221;, and became an international chart success.</p>
<p>The song topped the charts in the United States, also reaching number 3 in the United Kingdom. The single sold over one million copies in 1974 in America. It has since become one of the band&#8217;s most famous songs.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="280" height="281" class="wp-image-36730 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-157.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-157.jpeg 280w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-157-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-157-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px" />A medley of three distinct musical passages that vary in style from folk rock to funk, &#8220;Band on the Run&#8221; is one of McCartney&#8217;s longest singles at 5:09. The song was partly inspired by a comment that George Harrison had made during a meeting of the Beatles&#8217; Apple record label. The song-wide theme is one of freedom and escape, and its creation coincided with Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr having parted with manager Allen Klein in March 1973, leading to improved relations between McCartney and his fellow ex-Beatles. The original demos for this and other tracks on <em>Band on the Run</em> were stolen shortly after Wings arrived in Lagos, Nigeria, to begin recording the album. With the band reduced to a trio consisting of McCartney, his wife Linda, and Denny Laine, &#8220;Band on the Run&#8221; was recorded at EMI&#8217;s Lagos studio and completed at AIR Studios in London.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" width="1080" height="608" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L06iPxw1RM8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Sunshine on My Shoulders: John Denver</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="316" height="314" class="wp-image-36732 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-8.png" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-8.png 316w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-8-150x150.png 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-8-300x298.png 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-8-45x45.png 45w" sizes="(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px" /> Sunshine on My Shoulders by John Denver is a song recorded and co-written by American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was originally released as an album track on 1971&#8217;s <em>Poems, Prayers &amp; Promises</em> and later, as a single in 1973.</p>
<p>It went to number one on the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 chart in the U.S. in early 1974.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-36733 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-159.jpeg" width="330" height="442" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-159.jpeg 640w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-159-224x300.jpeg 224w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-159-610x818.jpeg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px" />Denver described how he wrote &#8220;Sunshine on My Shoulders&#8221;: &#8220;I wrote the song in Minnesota at the time I call &#8216;late winter, early spring&#8217;. It was a dreary day, gray and slushy. The snow was melting and it was too cold to go outside and have fun, but God, you&#8217;re ready for spring. You want to get outdoors again and you&#8217;re waiting for that sun to shine, and you remember how sometimes just the sun itself can make you feel good. And in that very melancholy frame of mind I wrote &#8216;Sunshine on My Shoulders&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
<p>The album version features an extra verse, not heard on the Singles charts, due to the song&#8217;s length. In addition to Denver&#8217;s wondering on if he had a day and a song. In the second verse, It mentions Denver&#8217;s wondering if he had a tale, and a wish. The song ends with the words &#8220;ALMOST ALWAYS&#8221;, being held on until the song&#8217;s end.</p>
<p>It was originally the B-side of one of his earlier songs, &#8220;I&#8217;d Rather Be a Cowboy&#8221;. As the Vietnam War came to an end, the song took on a new significance and began to receive airplay on adult contemporary radio stations. It entered the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 at number 90 on January 26, 1974 and moved into the number one spot nine weeks later, remaining at #1 for one week. The song also topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks in 1974. <em>Billboard</em> ranked it as the No. 18 song for 1974.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" width="1080" height="810" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b5aQ2dLzzXs?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Love Will Keep Us Together: Captain and Tennille</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="314" height="317" class="wp-image-36734 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-160.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-160.jpeg 314w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-160-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-160-297x300.jpeg 297w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-160-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px" />Love Will Keep Us Together by Captain and Tennilleis a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. It was first recorded by Sedaka himself in 1973 and was released as a single in France. American pop duo Captain &amp; Tennille covered the song in 1975, with instrumental backing by L.A. session musicians from the Wrecking Crew and had a worldwide hit with their version.</p>
<p>&#8220;Love Will Keep Us Together&#8221; was the title cut and lead single of Captain &amp; Tennille&#8217;s debut album, although &#8220;Captain&#8221; Daryl Dragon originally hoped that honor would go to the duo&#8217;s rendition of &#8220;I Write the Songs&#8221;. The single rose to number 1 on both the <em>Billboard</em> Easy Listening chart and the <em>Billboard</em> pop chart, staying atop the latter for four weeks starting June 21, 1975. It also hit the top of the 1975 year-end chart. In the US it was the best-selling single of 1975. &#8220;Love Will Keep Us Together&#8221; became a gold record and also won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in February 1976.</p>
<p>Dragon and Tennille acknowledged Sedaka&#8217;s authorship — as well as his mid-1970s comeback — by working the phrase &#8220;Sedaka is back&#8221; into the song&#8217;s fadeout, where the applause from the studio musicians can be heard. Their version would earn Sedaka and Greenfield a Grammy nomination for Song of the Year. Twenty years later in 1995, the duo would re-record the song for their <em>Twenty Years of Romance</em> CD.</p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Rhinestone Cowboy: Glen Campbell</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="328" height="321" class="wp-image-36735 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-161.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-161.jpeg 328w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-161-300x294.jpeg 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-161-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px" /> Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell is a song written by Larry Weiss and most famously recorded by American country music singer Glen Campbell. The song enjoyed huge popularity with both country and pop audiences when it was released in 1975.</p>
<p>Weiss wrote and recorded &#8220;Rhinestone Cowboy&#8221; in 1974, and it appeared on his 20th Century Records album <em>Black and Blue Suite</em>. It did not, however, have much of a commercial impact as a single. In late 1974, Campbell heard the song on the radio, and during a tour of Australia, decided to learn the song.</p>
<p>Soon after his return to the United States, Campbell went to Al Coury&#8217;s office at Capitol Records, where he was approached about &#8220;a great new song&#8221; — &#8220;Rhinestone Cowboy&#8221;.</p>
<p>Several music writers noted that Campbell identified with the subject matter of &#8220;Rhinestone Cowboy&#8221; — survival and making it, particularly when the chips are down — very strongly. As Steven Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic put it, the song is about a veteran artist &#8220;who&#8217;s aware that he&#8217;s more than paid his dues during his career &#8230; but is still surviving, and someday, he&#8217;ll shine just like a rhinestone cowboy.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="355" height="355" class="wp-image-36736 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-162.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-162.jpeg 355w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-162-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-162-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-162-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px" />Released in May 1975, &#8220;Rhinestone Cowboy&#8221; immediately caught on with both country and pop audiences. The song spent that summer climbing both the <em>Billboard</em> Hot Country Singles and <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 charts before peaking at number one by season&#8217;s end &#8211; three nonconsecutive weeks on the country chart, two weeks on the Hot 100. <em>Billboard</em> ranked it as the number-two for 1975. It also went topped the charts in Canada and several other countries.</p>
<p>During the week of September 13 — the week the song returned to number one on the <em>Billboard</em> country chart, after having been nudged out for a week by &#8220;Feelins'&#8221; by Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn — &#8220;Rhinestone Cowboy&#8221; topped both the country and Hot 100 charts simultaneously. This was the first time a song had accomplished the feat since November 1961, when &#8220;Big Bad John&#8221; by Jimmy Dean did so.</p>
<p>&#8220;Rhinestone Cowboy&#8221; was one of six songs released in 1975 that topped both the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles charts. The other songs were &#8220;Before the Next Teardrop Falls&#8221; by Freddy Fender, &#8220;(Hey Won&#8217;t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song&#8221; by B. J. Thomas, &#8220;Thank God I&#8217;m a Country Boy&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m Sorry&#8221;/&#8221;Calypso,&#8221; both by John Denver, and &#8220;Convoy&#8221; by C. W. McCall.</p>
<p>The song was also the sole Glen Campbell track in a promotional-only compilation album issued by Capitol records titled <em>The Greatest Music Ever Sold</em> (Capitol SPRO-8511/8512), that was distributed to record stores during the 1976 holiday season as part of Capitol&#8217;s &#8220;Greatest Music Ever Sold&#8221; campaign, which promoted 15 &#8220;Best Of&#8221; albums released by the record label.</p>
<p>After Glen Campbell died in August 2017, &#8220;Rhinestone Cowboy&#8221; charted in Country Digital Song chart at No. 12. The song has sold a total of 368,000 downloads in the digital era in the United States as of August 2017.</p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Fame: David Bowie</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="200" height="203" class="wp-image-36737 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-163.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-163.jpeg 200w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-163-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" />Fame by David Bowie is a song recorded by David Bowie, initially released in 1975. Written by Bowie, Carlos Alomar and John Lennon, it was a hit in North America, becoming Bowie&#8217;s first number 1 single in the Canadian Singles Chart as well as the U.S. <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100. The song was one of the more successful singles of the year, ranking at number 7 on the <em>Billboard</em> Year-End Hot 100. It was less successful in Europe, reaching number 17 in the UK Singles Chart.</p>
<p>With the <em>Young Americans</em> sessions mostly concluded by late 1974, the material was delayed while Bowie extricated himself from his contract with manager Tony Defries. During this time, he was staying in New York City, where he met John Lennon. The pair jammed together, leading to a one-day session at Electric Lady Studios in January 1975. There, Carlos Alomar had developed a guitar riff for Bowie&#8217;s cover of &#8220;Footstompin'&#8221; by the Flairs, which Bowie thought was &#8220;a waste&#8221; to give to a cover. Lennon, who was in the studio with them, sang &#8220;aim&#8221; over the riff, which Bowie turned into &#8220;Fame&#8221; and he thereafter wrote the rest of the lyrics to the song.</p>
<p>Lennon&#8217;s voice is heard interjecting the falsetto &#8220;Fame&#8221; throughout the song.</p>
<p>&#8220;Fame&#8221; became Bowie&#8217;s biggest hit to that point in the US. It was his first number one hit on the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 chart, as well as his first to break the top 10, but would only reach number 17 in the UK Singles Chart.</p>
<p>Bowie would later claim that he had &#8220;absolutely no idea&#8221; that the song would do so well as a single, saying &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t know how to pick a single if it hit me in the face</p>
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<p>Saturday Night: Bay City Rollers</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="319" height="313" class="wp-image-36738 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-164.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-164.jpeg 319w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-164-300x294.jpeg 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-164-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px" />Saturday Night by Bay City Rollers is a song recorded by the Scottish pop rock band Bay City Rollers. It was written and produced by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter. The tune is an upbeat pop rock number with a memorable hook: the word &#8220;Saturday&#8221; spelled out in a rhythmic chant.</p>
<p>The original version of the song was recorded and released in the UK in 1973, but did not hit the charts. The original version was sung by Nobby Clark. At the end of 1975, Saturday Night was released In America and it hit the no. 1 spot in January 1976. It was the first Billboard #1 of the US Bicentennial year. The song had been re-recorded for the Rollers&#8217; 1974 UK album <em>Rollin&#8217;</em> with lead vocals by Les McKeown, Nobby&#8217;s replacement. The single also reached number one on the <em>RPM</em> Canadian Singles Chart listing on 10 January 1976. This is the band&#8217;s sole No. 1 hit in the United States.</p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Theme from SWAT: Rhythm Heritage</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="300" class="wp-image-36739 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-165.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-165.jpeg 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-165-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-165-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Theme from SWAT by Rhythm Heritage is an instrumental song written by Barry De Vorzon and performed by American funk group Rhythm Heritage, released on their debut album <em>Disco-Fied</em>.</p>
<p>It reached number one on the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 singles chart in the United States on the chart date of February 28, 1976.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="289" height="300" class="wp-image-36740 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-166.jpeg" />As the title implies, it was the opening theme music for the 1970s American television series <em>S.W.A.T.</em>, though it is a noticeably different recording from the actual TV theme version, which was performed not by Rhythm Heritage, but by Barry De Vorzon&#8217;s own orchestra with arrangement by Dominik Hauser.</p>
<p>The theme song was also referenced by characters in the 2003 motion picture of the same name, who mouth the notes during a party to celebrate their successful completion of the training course. De Vorzon&#8217;s original was eventually released on the LP <em>Nadia&#8217;s Theme</em> on Arista records.</p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Stayin’ Alive: The Bee Gees</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="315" height="317" class="wp-image-36741 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-167.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-167.jpeg 315w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-167-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-167-298x300.jpeg 298w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-167-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px" />Stayin’ Alive by The Bee Gees is a disco song written and performed by the Bee Gees from the <em>Saturday Night Fever</em> motion picture soundtrack. The song was released on 13 December 1977 as the second single from the <em>Saturday Night Fever</em> soundtrack. The band co-produced the song with Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson. It is one of the Bee Gees&#8217; signature songs. In 2004, &#8220;Stayin&#8217; Alive&#8221; was placed at number 189 on the list of Rolling Stone&#8217;s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2004, it ranked No. 9 on AFI&#8217;s 100 Years&#8230;100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. In a UK television poll on ITV in December 2011 it was voted fifth in &#8220;The Nation&#8217;s Favourite Bee Gees Song&#8221;.</p>
<p>On its release, &#8220;Stayin&#8217; Alive&#8221; climbed the charts to hit the number one spot on the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 the week of 4 February 1978, remaining there for four weeks. In the process, it became one of the band&#8217;s most recognisable tunes, in part because of its place at the beginning of <em>Saturday Night Fever</em>. In the US, it would become the second of six consecutive number-one singles, tying the record with the Beatles for most consecutive number ones in the US at the time.</p>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Billie Jean: Michael Jackson</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="316" height="316" class="wp-image-36743 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-169.jpeg" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-169.jpeg 316w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-169-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-169-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-169-45x45.jpeg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px" /> A song by American singer Michael Jackson, released in January 1983 as the second single from his sixth album <em>Thriller</em> (1982). It was written and composed by Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones and Jackson. &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221; was one of the best-selling singles of 1983, was the biggest-selling single for Jackson as a solo artist, and remains one of the best-selling singles worldwide. It helped propel <em>Thriller</em> to the status of best-selling album of all time. In the United States, the song stayed at number one on the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 for seven weeks. It also reached number one in the United Kingdom and several other European countries, and reached the top-ten in many other countries. The song was awarded numerous honors, including two Grammy Awards and an American Music Award. &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221; also remains a critical favorite; in 2004 <em>Rolling Stone</em> magazine placed it at number 58 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-36744 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-170.jpeg" width="254" height="371" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-170.jpeg 380w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/word-image-170-205x300.jpeg 205w" sizes="(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px" />The song is about a woman, Billie Jean, who had spent a night of passion with the narrator and now claims that the narrator is the father of her newborn son; he insists that &#8220;the kid is not my son&#8221;, although the song leaves open the possibility that he is indeed the father. Jackson stated that the song was based on girls who had made the same claim about his older brothers, when he toured with them as part of The Jackson 5. However, some have theorized that the song is based on Jackson&#8217;s own experience with a crazed fan.</p>
<p>The song&#8217;s spare, bass-driven arrangement helped to pioneer what one critic called &#8220;sleek, post-soul pop music&#8221;. It also introduced a more paranoid lyrical style for Jackson, which would became a trademark of his later music. The choreography and costume that Jackson adopted for performances of &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221; would become widely admired and imitated. He premiered them on the TV special <em>Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever</em>, which aired in May 1983; his performance of &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221; won great acclaim, and was nominated for an Emmy Award. That performance introduced a number of elements which would become indelibly associated with Jackson, including the moonwalk dance move and wearing a single white sequined glove.</p>
<p>The song&#8217;s music video, directed by Steve Barron, played a large role in the early history of the cable channel MTV. It was the first video by a black artist to be aired on MTV in heavy rotation. Also, the video, along with the two other videos produced for <em>Thriller</em>, helped to cement the channel&#8217;s cultural importance, by making a well-crafted music video considered to be an integral part of the marketing of any pop single.</p>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-full wp-image-33934" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Richard-Nixon.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="199" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Richard-Nixon.jpg 200w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Richard-Nixon-150x150.jpg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Richard-Nixon-45x45.jpg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" />Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. After completing his undergraduate studies at Whittier College, he graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937 and returned to California to practice law. He and his wife Pat moved to Washington in 1942 to work for the federal government. He subsequently served on active duty in the U.S. Navy Reserve during World War II. Nixon was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946 and to the Senate in 1950. His pursuit of the Hiss Case established his reputation as a leading anti-communist and elevated him to national prominence. He was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party presidential nominee in the 1952 election. Nixon served for eight years as vice president – at 40, the second-youngest vice president in history. He waged an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1960, narrowly losing to John F. Kennedy, and lost a race for Governor of California to Pat Brown in 1962. In 1968, he ran for the presidency again and was elected, defeating incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.</p>
<p>Nixon ended American involvement in the war in Vietnam in 1973 and brought the American POWs home, and ended the military draft. Nixon&#8217;s visit to the People&#8217;s Republic of China in 1972 eventually led to diplomatic relations between the two nations, and he initiated détente and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union the same year. His administration generally transferred power from Washington D.C. to the states. He imposed wage and price controls for ninety days, enforced desegregation of Southern schools and established the Environmental Protection Agency. Nixon also presided over the Apollo 11 moon landing, which signaled the end of the moon race.</p>
<p>He was reelected in one of the largest electoral landslides in U.S. history in 1972 when he defeated George McGovern.<br />
In his second term, Nixon ordered an airlift to resupply Israeli losses in the Yom Kippur War, resulting in the restart of the Middle East peace process and an oil crisis at home. The Nixon administration supported a coup in Chile that ousted the government of Salvador Allende and propelled Augusto Pinochet to power. By late 1973, the Watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support. On August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office. After his resignation, he was issued a pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford. In 20 years of retirement, Nixon wrote nine books and undertook many foreign trips, helping to rehabilitate his image into that of elder statesman. He suffered a debilitating stroke on April 18, 1994 and died four days later at the age of 81.</p></div>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-36150 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/earth-help.jpg" alt="" width="129" height="169" />The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.</p>
<p><strong>April 22</strong> – The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.</p>
<p>An annual event celebrated on April 22. Worldwide, various events are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day events in more than 193 countries[1] are now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network</p></div>
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<p>April 10, 1970, Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.</p></div>
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<p>The flight passed the far side of the Moon at an altitude of 254 kilometers (137 nautical miles) above the lunar surface, and 400,171 km (248,655 mi) from Earth, a spaceflight record marking the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth. The mission was commanded by James A. Lovell with John L. &#8220;Jack&#8221; Swigert as Command Module Pilot and Fred W. Haise as Lunar Module Pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for the original CM pilot Ken Mattingly, who was grounded by the flight surgeon after exposure to German measles.</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>Kent State Shooting were the shootings of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, by members of the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. Twenty-nine guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-33955 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Kent-State-Shooting2.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="207" />Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.</p>
<p>There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students, and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. The band&#8217;s heavy, guitar-driven sound has led them to be cited as one of the progenitors of heavy metal, though their unique style drew from a wide variety of influences, including blues, psychedelia, and folk music.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-33982 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Led-Zeppelin-2.jpg" alt="" width="284" height="221" />After changing their name from the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that afforded them considerable artistic freedom. Although the group was initially unpopular with critics, they achieved significant commercial success with albums such as Led Zeppelin (1969), Led Zeppelin II (1969), Led Zeppelin III (1970), Led Zeppelin IV (1971), Houses of the Holy (1973), and Physical Graffiti (1975). Their fourth album, which features the song &#8220;Stairway to Heaven&#8221;, is among the most popular and influential works in rock music, and it helped to secure the group&#8217;s popularity.</p>
<p>Page wrote most of Led Zeppelin&#8217;s music, particularly early in their career, while Plant generally supplied the lyrics. Jones&#8217; keyboard-based compositions later became central to the group&#8217;s catalogue, which featured increasing experimentation. The latter half of their career saw a series of record-breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess and debauchery. Although they remained commercially and critically successful, their output and touring schedule were limited during the late 1970s, and the group disbanded following Bonham&#8217;s death from alcohol-related asphyxia in 1980.</p>
<p>Led Zeppelin are widely considered one of the most successful, innovative, and influential rock groups in history. They are one of the best-selling music artists in the history of audio recording; various sources estimate the group&#8217;s record sales at 200 to 300 million units worldwide. With RIAA-certified sales of 111.5 million units, they are the second-best-selling band in the US. Each of their nine studio albums placed in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart and six reached the number-one spot. They achieved eight consecutive UK number-one albums. Rolling Stone magazine described them as &#8220;the heaviest band of all time&#8221;, &#8220;the biggest band of the Seventies&#8221;, and &#8220;unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history&#8221;. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995; the museum&#8217;s biography of the band states that they were &#8220;as influential&#8221; during the 1970s as the Beatles were during the 1960s.</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-33981 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Isle-of-the-Wight-202x300.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="300" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Isle-of-the-Wight-202x300.jpg 202w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Isle-of-the-Wight.jpg 250w" sizes="(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px" />The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 was held between 26 and 31 August 1970 at Afton Down, an area on the western side of the Isle of Wight. It was the last of three consecutive music festivals to take place on the island between 1968 and 1970 and widely acknowledged as the largest musical event of its time, greater than the attendance of Woodstock.</p>
<p>Although estimates vary, the Guinness World Records estimated 600,000, possibly 700,000 people attended. It was organised and promoted by local brothers, Ron and Ray Foulk through their company Fiery Creations Ltd and their brother Bill Foulk. Ron Smith was site manager and Rikki Farr acted as compere.</p>
<p>The preceding Isle of Wight Festivals, also promoted by the Foulks, had already gained a good reputation in 1968 and 1969 by featuring acts such as Jefferson Airplane, T. Rex, The Move, The Pretty Things, Joe Cocker, The Moody Blues (performed at the 1969 festival), The Who, and Bob Dylan in his first performance since his 1966 motorcycle accident.</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>All in the Family is an American sitcom TV-series that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network for nine seasons, from January 1971 to April 1979. The following September, it was replaced by Archie Bunker&#8217;s Place, which picked up where All in the Family had ended and ran for four more seasons.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-34004 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-All-in-the-Family-300x240.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="240" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-All-in-the-Family-300x240.jpg 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-All-in-the-Family.jpg 311w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />All in the Family was produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin. It starred Carroll O&#8217;Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, and Rob Reiner. The show revolves around the life of a working-class bigot and his family. The show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for a U.S. network television comedy, such as racism, infidelity, homosexuality, women&#8217;s liberation, rape, religion, miscarriages, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence. Through depicting these controversial issues, the series became arguably one of television&#8217;s most influential comedic programs, as it injected the sitcom format with more dramatic moments and realistic, topical conflicts.</p></div>
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<p>Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager; his first band, the Quarrymen, was named the Silver Beatles, and finally evolved into the Beatles in 1960. When the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon embarked on a sporadic solo career that produced albums including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and songs such as &#8220;Give Peace a Chance&#8221;, &#8220;Working Class Hero&#8221;, and &#8220;Imagine&#8221;. After he married Yoko Ono in 1969, he added &#8220;Ono&#8221; as one of his middle names. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was shot and killed in front of his Manhattan apartment three weeks after its release.</p>
<p>Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved from London to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him. Some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.</p>
<h3>Concert for Bangladesh</h3>
<p>Concert for Bangladesh was the collective name for two benefit concerts organized by former Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar. The concerts were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The shows were organized to raise international awareness and fund relief efforts for refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide. The concerts were followed by a bestselling live album, a boxed three-record set, and Apple Films&#8217; concert documentary, which opened in cinemas in the spring of 1972.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-36164 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Concert-for-Bengladesh.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="151" />The event was the first-ever benefit concert of such a magnitude and featured a supergroup of performers that included Harrison, fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and the band Badfinger. In addition, Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan – both of whom had ancestral roots in Bangladesh – performed an opening set of Indian classical music. Decades later, Shankar would say of the overwhelming success of the event: &#8220;In one day, the whole world knew the name of Bangladesh. It was a fantastic occasion &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The concerts were attended by a total of 40,000 people, and raised close to US$250,000 for Bangladesh relief, which was administered by UNICEF. Although the project was subsequently marred by financial problems – a result of the pioneering nature of the venture – the Concert for Bangladesh is recognized as a successful and influential humanitarian aid project, generating both awareness and considerable funds as well as providing valuable lessons and inspiration for projects that followed, notably Live Aid. By 1985, through revenue raised from the Concert for Bangladesh live album and film, an estimated $12 million had been sent to Bangladesh in relief.</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>Anwar Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as President in 1970.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-36166 alignright" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Anwar-Sadat.jpg" alt="" width="138" height="204" />In his eleven years as president, he changed Egypt&#8217;s trajectory, departing from many of the political and economic tenets of Nasserism, re-instituting a multi-party system, and launching the Infitah economic policy. As President, he led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to regain Egypt&#8217;s Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967, making him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, the wider Arab World. Afterwards, he engaged in negotiations with Israel, culminating in the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty; this won him and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin the Nobel Peace Prize, making Sadat the first Muslim Nobel laureate.</p>
<p>Though reaction to the treaty—which resulted in the return of Sinai to Egypt—was generally favorable among Egyptians, it was rejected by the country&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood, which felt Sadat had abandoned efforts to ensure a Palestinian state. With the exception of Sudan, the Arab world and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) strongly opposed Sadat&#8217;s efforts to make a separate peace with Israel without prior consultations with the Arab states.</p>
<p>His refusal to reconcile with them over the Palestinian issue resulted in Egypt being suspended from the Arab League from 1979 to 1989. The peace treaty was also one of the primary factors that led to his assassination.</p></div>
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September 8 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s Mass.</p></div>
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<p>He has more than fifty Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 58 Billboard Top 40 singles, 27 Top 10, four No. 2 and nine No. 1. For 31 consecutive years (1970–2000) he had at least one song in the Billboard Hot 100. His tribute single, re-penned in dedication to the late Princess Diana, &#8220;Candle in the Wind 1997&#8221; sold over 33 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling single in the history of the UK and US singles charts.</p>
<p>He has also composed music, produced records, and has occasionally acted in films. John owned Watford Football Club from 1976 to 1987, and 1997 to 2002. He is an honorary Life President of the club, and in 2014 had a stand named after him at the club&#8217;s home stadium.</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>Paul McCartney/Wings were an Anglo-American rock band formed in 1971 by former Beatle Paul McCartney with his wife Linda on keyboards, session drummer Denny Seiwell, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine. Wings were noted for frequent personnel changes as well as commercial success, going through three lead guitarists and four drummers. However, the core trio of the McCartneys and Laine remained intact throughout the group&#8217;s existence.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-full wp-image-36174" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Paul-McCartney-Wings2.jpg" alt="" width="293" height="165" />Created following the McCartneys&#8217; 1971 album Ram, the band&#8217;s first two albums, Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway (the latter featuring guitarist Henry McCullough), were viewed as artistic disappointments beside Paul McCartney&#8217;s work with the Beatles. After the release of the title track of the James Bond movie Live and Let Die, McCullough and Seiwell resigned from the band. The McCartneys and Laine then released 1973&#8217;s Band on the Run, a commercial and critical success that spawned two top ten singles in &#8220;Jet&#8221; and the title track. Following that album, the band recruited guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton, only for Britton to quit shortly afterwards and be replaced by Joe English. With the new line-up, Wings released Venus and Mars, which included the US number one single &#8220;Listen to What the Man Said&#8221;, and undertook a highly successful world tour over 1975–76. Intended as more of a group effort, Wings at the Speed of Sound was issued midway through the tour and featured the hit singles &#8220;Silly Love Songs&#8221; and &#8220;Let &#8216;Em In&#8221;.</p>
<p>In 1977, the band earned their only UK number one single, with &#8220;Mull of Kintyre&#8221;, which became the then-best selling UK single in history. Wings experienced another line-up shuffle, however, with both McCulloch and English departing before the release of the group&#8217;s 1978 album London Town. The McCartneys and Laine again added new members, recruiting guitarist Laurence Juber and drummer Steve Holley. The resulting album, Back to the Egg, was a relative flop, with its singles under-performing and the critical reception negative. During the supporting tour, Paul McCartney was arrested in Japan for cannabis possession, putting the band on hold. Despite a final US number one, the live version of McCartney&#8217;s solo single &#8220;Coming Up&#8221;, after Laine departing from the band, Wings discontinued for good in 1981.</p></div>
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<p>Patton won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Scott won Best Actor for his portrayal of General Patton, but declined to accept the award.The opening monologue, delivered by George C. Scott as General Patton with an enormous American flag behind him, remains an iconic and often quoted image in film</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><strong>Elton John</strong> is an English singer, pianist, and composer. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriting partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date. In his five-decade career Elton John has sold more than 300 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-35052" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Elton-John.jpg" alt="" width="222" height="283" />He has more than fifty Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 58 Billboard Top 40 singles, 27 Top 10, four No. 2 and nine No. 1. For 31 consecutive years (1970–2000) he had at least one song in the Billboard Hot 100. His tribute single, re-penned in dedication to the late Princess Diana, &#8220;Candle in the Wind 1997&#8221; sold over 33 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling single in the history of the UK and US singles charts. He has also composed music, produced records, and has occasionally acted in films. John owned Watford Football Club from 1976 to 1987, and 1997 to 2002. He is an honorary Life President of the club, and in 2014 had a stand named after him at the club&#8217;s home stadium.</p>
<p>Raised in the Pinner area of London, John learned to play piano at an early age, and by 1962 had formed Bluesology. John met his songwriting partner, Bernie Taupin, in 1967, after they had both answered an advert for songwriters. For two years they wrote songs for other artists, including Lulu, and John also worked as a session musician for artists such as the Hollies and the Scaffold. In 1969 his debut album, Empty Sky, was released. In 1970 a single, &#8220;Your Song&#8221;, from his second album, Elton John, reached the top ten in the UK and the US, his first hit single. After decades of commercial chart success, John has also achieved success in musical theatre, both in the West End and on Broadway, composing the music for The Lion King (film and musical), Aida and Billy Elliot the Musical.</p>
<p>He has received five Grammy Awards, five Brit Awards – winning two awards for Outstanding Contribution to Music and the first Brits Icon in 2013 for his &#8220;lasting impact on British culture&#8221;, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Disney Legends award, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of 100 influential musicians of the rock and roll era. In 2013, Billboard ranked him the most successful male solo artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists (third overall behind the Beatles and Madonna).</p>
<p>He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, is an inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. Having been named a Order of the British Empire in 1996, John was made a Knight Bachelor by Elizabeth II for &#8220;services to music and charitable services&#8221; in 1998.</p>
<p>John has performed at a number of royal events, such as the funeral of Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in 1997, the Party at the Palace in 2002 and the Queen&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace in 2012.</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><strong>Paul McCartney/Wings</strong> were an Anglo-American rock band formed in 1971 by former Beatle Paul McCartney with his wife Linda on keyboards, session drummer Denny Seiwell, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine. Wings were noted for frequent personnel changes as well as commercial success, going through three lead guitarists and four drummers. However, the core trio of the McCartneys and Laine remained intact throughout the group&#8217;s existence and McCartney continued playing bass and other assorted instruments, just as he had done with The Beatles.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-full wp-image-35053" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Paul-McCartney-Wings.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="240" />Created following the McCartneys&#8217; 1971 album Ram, the band&#8217;s first two albums, Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway (the latter featuring guitarist Henry McCullough), were viewed as artistic disappointments beside Paul McCartney&#8217;s work with the Beatles. After the release of the title track of the James Bond movie Live and Let Die, McCullough and Seiwell resigned from the band. The McCartneys and Laine then released 1973&#8217;s Band on the Run, a commercial and critical success that spawned two top ten singles in &#8220;Jet&#8221; and the title track. Following that album, the band recruited guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton, only for Britton to quit shortly afterward and be replaced by Joe English. With the new line-up, Wings released Venus and Mars, which included the US number one single &#8220;Listen to What the Man Said&#8221;, and undertook a highly successful world tour over 1975–76. Intended as more of a group effort, Wings at the Speed of Sound was issued midway through the tour and featured the hit singles &#8220;Silly Love Songs&#8221; and &#8220;Let &#8216;Em In&#8221;.</p>
<p>In 1977, the band earned their only UK number one single, with &#8220;Mull of Kintyre&#8221;, which became the then-best-selling UK single in history. Wings experienced another line-up shuffle, however, with both McCulloch and English departing before the release of the group&#8217;s 1978 album London Town. The McCartneys and Laine again added new members, recruiting guitarist Laurence Juber and drummer Steve Holley. The resulting album, Back to the Egg, was a relative flop, with its singles under-performing and the critical reception negative. During the supporting tour, Paul McCartney was arrested in Japan for cannabis possession, putting the band on hold. Despite a final US number one, the live version of McCartney&#8217;s solo single &#8220;Coming Up&#8221;, Wings broke up permanently in 1981.</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><strong>Paul Simon</strong> is an American musician, singer-songwriter and actor. Simon&#8217;s fame, influence, and commercial success began as part of the duo Simon &amp; Garfunkel, formed in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote nearly all of the pair&#8217;s songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: &#8220;The Sound of Silence&#8221;, &#8220;Mrs. Robinson&#8221;, and &#8220;Bridge over Troubled Water&#8221;.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-33990 alignleft" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Paul-Simon-291x300.jpg" alt="" width="291" height="300" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Paul-Simon-291x300.jpg 291w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Paul-Simon.jpg 370w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1970-Paul-Simon-45x45.jpg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px" />The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity and Simon began a successful solo career as a guitarist and singer-songwriter, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years.</p>
<p>In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music, which sold 14 million copies worldwide on its release and remains his most popular solo work.</p>
<p>Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony (1980) and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman (1998) with the poet Derek Walcott. On June 3, 2016, Simon released his 13th solo album, titled Stranger to Stranger, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Album Chart and the UK charts.</p></div>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-full wp-image-35056" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Pilot.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="284" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Pilot.jpg 288w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Pilot-45x45.jpg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px" />The 1974 single &#8220;Magic&#8221; from their first album, produced by Alan Parsons and written by Paton, was a No. 11 UK and No. 5 US success. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in August 1975. The song &#8220;January&#8221; gave them their greatest success in the UK, securing the number one spot in the UK Singles Chart on 1 February 1975. It stayed at number one for three weeks. (It also went to number one in Australia where it stayed up top for eight weeks; in the United States, it reached the lower ends of the Hot 100.) However, the group failed to make the Top 30 again. The arranger of &#8220;January&#8221;, Andrew Powell, went on to record Kate Bush, and both Paton and Bairnson played on her debut album, The Kick Inside, which included &#8220;Wuthering Heights&#8221;. And then, David Paton, Ian Bairnson and Stuart Elliot played on Kate Bush&#8217;s second album Lionheart published in 1978.</p>
<p>The band&#8217;s other singles chart successes were &#8220;Call Me Round&#8221; and &#8220;Just a Smile&#8221; (both 1975), which each hit the top 40 in the UK and nowhere else.[6] By 1977, only Paton and Bairnson were left from the original foursome, and they recorded Pilot&#8217;s final album (the aptly titled Two&#8217;s a Crowd) with session musicians.</p>
<p>By 1978, all of Pilot&#8217;s members had begun other projects, notably Tosh, Paton and Bairnson becoming members of the Alan Parsons Project, and Tosh also working with 10cc. Lyall died of AIDS-related causes in 1989.</p>
<p>Paton and Bairnson reconvened in 2002, to re-record the original Pilot album Two&#8217;s a Crowd. The subsequent issue was entitled Blue Yonder.</p>
<p>As they approached the 40th anniversary of Pilot&#8217;s debut album, David Paton, Ian Bairnson, and Stuart Tosh reunited as Pilot. They released A Pilot Project in August 2014 as an homage to The Alan Parsons Project singer Eric Woolfson.</p></div>
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<p>Over the course of its career, the band has sold more than 40 million records and has charted thirteen Top 40 hits, including the number ones &#8220;Keep On Loving You&#8221;, &#8220;Take It on the Run&#8221;, and &#8220;Can&#8217;t Fight This Feeling&#8221;. REO Speedwagon&#8217;s mainstream popularity dissipated in the 1990s but the band remains a popular live act.</p></div>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-35060" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Cat-Stevens-300x183.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="183" />His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, and fifteen weeks at number one in the Australian ARIA Charts.[6][7] He earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in 2005 and 2006 for &#8220;The First Cut Is the Deepest&#8221;, and the song has been a hit for four different artists. His other hit songs include &#8220;Father and Son&#8221;, &#8220;Wild World&#8221;, &#8220;Peace Train&#8221;, &#8220;Moonshadow&#8221;, and &#8220;Morning Has Broken&#8221;. In 2007 he received the British Academy&#8217;s Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection.</p>
<p>In December 1977, Stevens converted to Islam,[10] and he adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars for charity[11] and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He was embroiled in a long-running controversy regarding comments he made in 1989 about the death fatwa on author Salman Rushdie. He has received two honorary doctorates and awards for promoting peace from two organizations founded by Mikhail Gorbachev.</p></div>
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Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the No. 3 single &#8220;Fire and Rain&#8221; and had his first No. 1 hit the following year with &#8220;You&#8217;ve Got a Friend&#8221;, a recording of Carole King&#8217;s classic song. His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and has sold 12 million US copies. Following his 1977 album, JT, he has retained a large audience over the decades. Every album that he released from 1977 to 2007 sold over a million copies. His chart performance had a resurgence during the late 1990s and 2000s, when he recorded some of his most-awarded work (including Hourglass, October Road, and Covers). He achieved his first number one album in the US in 2015 with his recording Before This World.</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><strong>Seals and Crofts</strong> Jim Seals and Dash Crofts were both born in Texas, Seals in Sidney and Crofts in Cisco. They first met when Crofts was a drummer for a local band. Later, Seals joined a band called Dean Beard and the Crew Cats, where he played guitar; later on Crofts joined the band. With Beard, they moved to Los Angeles to join The Champs, but the two did so only after the group&#8217;s &#8220;Tequila&#8221; reached #1 in 1958. Seals also spent time during 1959 in the touring band of Eddie Cochran.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-35064" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Seals-and-Crofts-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Seals-and-Crofts-300x300.jpg 300w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Seals-and-Crofts-150x150.jpg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Seals-and-Crofts-45x45.jpg 45w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Seals-and-Crofts.jpg 306w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />In 1963, Jimmy Seals, Dash Crofts, Glen Campbell, and Jerry Cole left The Champs to form a band named &#8220;Glen Campbell and the GCs&#8221; which played at The Crossbow in Van Nuys. The band only lasted a couple of years before the members went their separate ways. Crofts returned to Texas and Seals joined a band named The Dawnbreakers (a reference to a book by the same name about the beginnings of the Baha&#8217;i Faith).</p>
<p>Crofts eventually returned to California to join The Dawnbreakers and thus both Seals and Crofts were introduced to and became members of the Bahá&#8217;í Faith. However, the band turned out to be unsuccessful. Crofts married fellow Dawnbreaker Billie Lee Day in 1969 and Seals married Ruby Jean Anderson in 1970.</p>
<p>After the failure with The Dawnbreakers, the two decided to play as a duo, with Seals on guitar, saxophone and violin, and Crofts on guitar and mandolin. They signed a contract with the record division of Talent Associates (TA) in 1969 and released two LPs, of which only the second reached the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at No. 122 in October 1970. The pair signed a new contract with Warner Bros. Records in August 1971.[2] Their first album with their new label did not break into the charts, but their second album Summer Breeze charted at No. 7 in 1972. The record sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in December 1972.</p>
<p>The duo played at the California Jam festival in Ontario, California, on April 6, 1974. Attracting over 200,000 fans, the concert put them alongside &#8217;70s acts such as Black Sabbath; Eagles; Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer; Deep Purple; Earth, Wind &amp; Fire; Black Oak Arkansas; and Rare Earth. Portions of the show were telecast on ABC Television in the US, exposing the duo to a wider audience.</p>
<p>After a long and successful run of recordings in the 1970s, the two lost their contract with Warner Brothers in 1980 and decided to set aside music for a while.</p>
<p>Seals and Crofts are longtime adherents of the Baha&#8217;i faith. A number of their songs contain Baha&#8217;i references, including passages from Baha&#8217;i scriptures. When they appeared in concert, they often remained on stage after the performance to talk about the faith while local Baha&#8217;is passed out literature to anyone interested.</p>
<p>During the 80s, despite their no longer being officially together as a duo, they continued to appear at several Bahá&#8217;í gatherings, including a world peace concert at the Bahá&#8217;í Center in Los Angeles for the film and music community in February of 1989. After this, they made the rounds of Canadian radio stations and some American talk shows to promote the Peace Document.</p>
<p>Crofts lived in Mexico, Australia and then Nashville, Tennessee, playing country music and making occasional hit singles. Crofts currently resides on a ranch in the Texas hill country. Seals moved to Costa Rica and lived on a coffee farm off and on since 1980, as well as in Nashville.</p>
<p>In 1991 Seals and Crofts officially reunited and made concert appearances once again until disbanding again a year later. In 1998 Dash released a solo CD titled Today, which contained some re-recordings of Seals and Crofts material and in 2004 the duo reunited again and recorded their first new album since 1980, released as Traces.</p>
<p>In December 2010 the bandmates&#8217; daughters Juliet Seals and Amelia Crofts, along with Genevieve Dozier, daughter of Seals &amp; Crofts engineer Joey Bogan, formed a musical trio called The Humming Birds. They released their eponymous EP The Humming Birds in September 2012.</p>
<p>Seals is the brother of &#8220;England&#8221; Dan Seals, of England Dan &amp; John Ford Coley, and later a well-known country music star. Seals and Crofts were instrumental in England Dan &amp; John Ford Coley becoming adherents to the Baha&#8217;i Faith, some 28 years before Coley became a Christian. Dan Seals died of cancer in 2009. At the time of his death, Dan and Jimmy Seals had been working on songs together. The status of those recordings is unknown.</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><strong>Nilsson</strong> was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering overdub experiments, returns to the Great American Songbook, and fusions of Caribbean sounds. A tenor with a three-and-a-half octave range, Nilsson was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists of his era to achieve significant commercial success without ever performing major public concerts or undertaking regular tours.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-35066" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Nilsson.jpg" alt="" width="299" height="299" srcset="https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Nilsson.jpg 299w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Nilsson-150x150.jpg 150w, https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Nilsson-45x45.jpg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px" />Born and raised in Brooklyn, Nilsson fled to Los Angeles as a teenager, landing a job as a computer programmer at a local bank. It was there that he began taking an interest in musical composition and close-harmony singing, and was successful in having some of his songs recorded by various popular artists such as the Monkees. In 1966, he debuted with Spotlight on Nilsson (1966) followed by Pandemonium Shadow Show (1967), the latter of which started a decade-spanning string of 13 studio albums released on the RCA Victor label.</p>
<p>After a period of widely publicized, alcohol-fueled antics with his fellow Hollywood Vampire members in the mid-1970s, Nilsson left RCA, and his record output subsequently diminished. In response to John Lennon&#8217;s 1980 death by shooting, he took a hiatus from the music industry to campaign for gun control. For the rest of his life, he recorded only on sporadic occasions. In 1994, Nilsson died of a heart attack while recording new material for a since-unreleased comeback album.</p>
<p>The RIAA have certified Nilsson&#8217;s albums Nilsson Schmilsson (1971) and Son of Schmilsson (1972) as gold records, indicating over 500,000 units sold each. His singles to reach the US top 10 were &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s Talkin'&#8221; (1969), &#8220;Without You&#8221; (1971), and &#8220;Coconut&#8221; (1972). He also wrote the song &#8220;One&#8221; (1968), made famous by the rock band Three Dog Night.[3] Nilsson&#8217;s honors include Grammy Awards for two of his recordings; Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male in 1970 for &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s Talkin'&#8221;, a prominent song in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male in 1973 for &#8220;Without You&#8221;. In 2015, Nilsson was voted No. 62 in Rolling Stone&#8217;s list of &#8220;The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time&#8221;, where he was described as &#8220;a pioneer of the Los Angeles studio sound, a crucial bridge between the baroque psychedelic pop of the late Sixties and the more personal singer-songwriter era of the Seventies&#8221;.</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><strong>Simon and Garfunkel</strong> were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s and became counterculture icons of the decade&#8217;s social revolution, alongside artists such as the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan. Their biggest hits—including &#8220;The Sound of Silence&#8221; (1964), &#8220;Mrs. Robinson&#8221; (1968), &#8220;Bridge over Troubled Water&#8221; (1969), and &#8220;The Boxer&#8221; (1969)—reached number one on singles charts worldwide. Their often rocky relationship led to artistic disagreements, which resulted in their breakup in 1970. Their final studio record, Bridge over Troubled Water (released in January of that year), was their most successful, becoming one of the world&#8217;s best-selling albums. Since their split in 1970 they have reunited several times, most famously in 1981 for the &#8220;The Concert in Central Park&#8221;, which attracted more than 500,000 people, the seventh-largest concert attendance in history.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-35068" src="http://www.thehistoryofrockandroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Simon-and-Garfunkel1-300x203.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="203" />The duo met as children in Queens, New York, in 1953, where they learned to harmonize together and began writing original material. By 1957, under the name Tom &amp; Jerry, the teenagers had their first minor success with &#8220;Hey Schoolgirl&#8221;, a song imitating their idols The Everly Brothers. Afterward, the duo went their separate ways, with Simon making unsuccessful solo records. In 1963, aware of a growing public interest in folk music, they regrouped and were signed to Columbia Records as Simon &amp; Garfunkel. Their début, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., sold poorly, and they once again disbanded; Simon returned to a solo career, this time in England. In June 1965, their song &#8220;The Sound of Silence&#8221; was overdubbed, adding electric guitar and a drumkit to the original 1964 recording. This later version became a major U.S. AM radio hit in 1965, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Simon &amp; Garfunkel reunited, releasing their second studio album Sounds of Silence and touring colleges nationwide. On their third release, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966), the duo assumed more creative control. Their music was featured in the 1967 film The Graduate, giving them further exposure. Bookends (1968), their next album, topped the Billboard 200 chart and included the number-one single &#8220;Mrs. Robinson&#8221; from the film. After their 1970 breakup following the release of Bridge over Troubled Water, they both continued recording, Simon releasing a number of highly acclaimed albums, including 1986&#8217;s Graceland.</p>
<p>Garfunkel also briefly pursued an acting career, with leading roles in two Mike Nichols films, Catch-22 and Carnal Knowledge, and in Nicolas Roeg&#8217;s 1980 Bad Timing, as well as releasing some solo hits such as &#8220;All I Know&#8221;.</p>
<p>Simon &amp; Garfunkel were described by critic Richie Unterberger as &#8220;the most successful folk-rock duo of the 1960s&#8221; and one of the most popular artists from the decade in general. They won 10 Grammy Awards and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Their Bridge over Troubled Water album was nominated at the 1977 Brit Awards for Best International Album and is ranked at number 51 on Rolling Stone&#8217;s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.</p></div>
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<p>It also widened her audience base. It spent 21 weeks on the chart and eventually became one of her signature tunes. Cline&#8217;s version is No. 85 on Rolling Stone&#8217;s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song was written by Hugh Nelson, who met Cline’s husband, Charlie Dick, at Orchid Lounge on Nashville’s Music Row. Cline was not a fan of the song originally, but it eventually grew on her.</p></div>
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<p>It spent three weeks at number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and hit number one on the Cash Box Top 100. It also reached number six on Canada&#8217;s RPM 100.</p>
<p>Lead vocals were provided by Sonny Geraci, who also sang lead on &#8220;Time Won&#8217;t Let Me&#8221; by his previous band, The Outsiders. &#8220;Precious and Few&#8221; had originally been released on Carousel Records earlier in 1971</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>This song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. It was first recorded by Sedaka himself in 1973 and was released as a single in France.</p>
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American pop duo Captain &amp; Tennille covered the song in 1975, with instrumental backing by L.A. session musicians from the Wrecking Crew and had a worldwide hit with their version.</p></div>
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<p>This version went to number one on the U.S. R&amp;B and Adult Contemporary charts. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1962. Charles reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1962, staying for two weeks.</p>
<p>The Ray Charles version is noted for his saying the words before the last five lines of the song on the final chorus: &#8220;Sing the Song, Children&#8221;.</p>
<p>Choral backing was provided by The Randy Van Horne Singers. It was ranked No. 164 on Rolling Stone&#8217;s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and No. 49 on CMT&#8217;s &#8220;100 Greatest Songs in Country Music&#8221;.</p></div>
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<p>The single topped the US charts on October 23, 1976, and stayed there for two weeks, making it the first number one hit for the group as well as hitting number one on the Easy Listening charts. It also reached number one in the UK on November 13, 1976, maintaining the position for three weeks.</p>
<p>&#8220;If You Leave Me Now&#8221; was also Chicago&#8217;s biggest hit worldwide, topping the charts in other countries such as Australia. It won Grammy Awards for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) (strings) for arranger Jimmie Haskell and producer James William Guercio and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus. It also received a nomination for Record of the Year. In addition, by August 1978 it had sold 1.4 million copies in the United States alone. It has been certified gold and platinum by the RIAA.</p></div>
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<p>The narrator, portrayed by the song&#8217;s author Eugene Record, expresses concern that the break-up may prove unbearable for him (&#8220;Oh girl/I&#8217;d be in trouble if you left me now/&#8217;Cause I don&#8217;t know where to look for love/I just don&#8217;t know how&#8221;), while knowing that staying will be no better (&#8220;I could save myself a lot of useless tears/Girl I&#8217;ve got to get away from here&#8221;; &#8220;Better be on my way, I can&#8217;t stay here&#8221;).</p>
<p>&#8220;Oh Girl&#8221; was the Chi-Lites&#8217; first and only number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at that position in May 1972 for one week. The single also reached the top position of the Billboard R&amp;B Singles chart the following month, remaining in that position for two weeks.[1]Billboard ranked it as the No. 13 song for 1972. In addition, it reached number fourteen on the UK Singles Chart in July 1972.</p></div>
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<p>It was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore and George David Weiss. It was featured in Elvis Presley&#8217;s 1961 film, Blue Hawaii.</p></div>
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<p>The song was also included on the group&#8217;s 1967 album The Mamas &amp; The Papas Deliver.<br />
The song feature overdubbed instruments that don&#8217;t appear on the album versions of the songs, Dedicated to the One I Love used the same mix for both single and album. However, there are differing versions of the song available.</p>
<p>The original single and album releases had a running time of 2:54, and featured a double-tracked lead vocal, as well as a prominent piano track. A shorter version of the song, which the band can be seen lip-synching to on various television shows in the sixties, has a running time of only 2:12, because it omits the only occurrence of the song&#8217;s verse, as well as the subsequent chorus, and instead goes straight into the instrumental bridge. In this mix the piano is less prominent and only one of Michelle Phillips&#8217; vocal tracks is audible.</p></div>
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<p>In April 1961, it became her second number 2 R&amp;B hit single (Argo 5380) and crossed over to pop radio, reaching number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite its modest pop chart standing, the song is well-known and is still played regularly on oldies radio stations. The James version reached the top 40 in Cashbox and Music Vendor.</p>
<p>The B-side, &#8220;I Just Want to Make Love to You,&#8221; written by Willie Dixon, became a hit for Foghat in 1972, peaking at #83 on the Billboard Hot 100.</p></div>
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<p>This love song written by Paul McCartney to his first wife Linda. The ballad was a number one single and the most successful track from the Paul McCartney and Wings 1973 album Red Rose Speedway.</p></div>
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