American Songwriter

3 One-Hit Wonders From the 1970s That Listeners Loved To Hate (But They Charted High for a Reason)

Some listeners might poke fun at these 1970s one-hit wonders in retrospect, but they were loved by the charts back in the day ...

The group that stole an idea from the Who to make two of the 1970s’ greatest power-pop hits

Minimalism met rock in 1972 when Pete Townshend wrote “Baba O’Riley.” The song’s cyclic, arpeggiating riff was inspired by ...
American Songwriter

3 Songs From the 1970s With Secretly Shocking Lyrics

Even if you heard these songs from the 1970s multiple times, you might have missed the shocking lyrics hidden within.
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#1 rock songs of the 1970s

Stacker looked at the #1 rock songs of the 1970s using the Billboard Hot 100 and MusicBrainz, an open music encyclopedia via the University of Waterloo. - TV Times/Future Publishing via Getty Images ...
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Six songs from the 1970s that were never supposed to be hits

Back in 1963, a talented trio of songwriters penned a pop song based on a conversation one of them had heard between a teenage girl and a boy who was hitting on her. The writers – Bob Feldman, Jerry ...

The Carpenters Turned This ’60s Dud Into a 1970 Chart-Topping Classic

According to Billboard, Karen and Richard Carpenter secured the number two spot on the charts with five different songs from ...
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#1 rock songs of the 1970s

Elton John performing his song ‘Crocodile Rock’ on the set of The Muppet Show. Rock music electrified the 1970s, igniting a decade of creativity and innovation in music. The subgenres that stemmed ...