1977 A Pivotal Year for Music
While at lunch with Massimo Farina today, I remarked that 1977 was a brilliant year for music. Not because of one thing, but because of the explosion of different styles that could be heard that year. It really was remarkable.
Here’s a sampling of some of the classic records and events from 1977 (with, much, much more in Wikipedia on this year in music.)
MAINSTREAM CLASSICS
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Bob Marley - Exodus
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!
Queen - News of the World
The Eagles - Hotel California
Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
Eric Clapton - Slow Hand
Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments
Steely Dan - Aja
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Foreigner - Foreigner
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
EVENTS
The Supremes officially disband
Elvis dies
Marc Bolan of T.Rex dies
Keith Richards arrested in Toronto for heroin possession
Lynard Skynyrd plane crash killing 3 band members
Studio 54 opens in New York
FIRST ALBUMS
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks
The Clash - The Clash
The Boomtown Rats - The Boomtown Rats (I Don’t Like Mondays)
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (first solo)
Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 (Psycho Killer)
The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus (Peaches, (Get a) Grip (On Yourself)
The Damned - Damned, Damnd, Damned (Neat, Neat, Neat)
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True (Alison, My Aim is True)
The Jam - In the City (In the City)
X-Ray Specs - Oh Bondage, Up Yours!
Richard Hell and the Voivods - Blank Generation
Motörhead - Motörhead
The Tubes - The Tubes (White Punks on Dope)
PIVOTAL RECORDS
David Bowie - Heroes
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Television - Marquee Moon
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Ramones - Leave Home & Rocket to Russia
Blondie - Plastic Letters
BANDS FORMED
B52’s
INXS
Stiff Little Fingers (Don’t know them? Green Day should pay them royalties?)
Human League
Gary Numan’s Tubeway Army
Bad Brains
Black Flag
999
Plasmatics
X
1978 had a tough act to follow.
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