Rock Music: 1970s
"Rock and Roll Never Forgets": Rock Music in the 1970s
As rock music entered the mainstream, rock artists of the 1970s diverged from the trending styles of the 1960s. These library resources demonstrate the unique contexts around the further splintering of rock music into what will become some of the leading sub-genres of contemporary music scenes, such as punk and hip-hop.
Books
Never a Dull Moment: 1971, The Year That Rock Exploded by
**One of Amazon's Best Books of 2016: Top 100 Editors' Picks** A rollicking look at 1971, rock's golden year, the year that saw the release of the indelible recordings of Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Who, Rod Stewart, Carole King, the Rolling Stones, and others and produced more classics than any other year in rock history The Sixties ended a year late. On New Year's Eve 1970 Paul McCartney instructed his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court in London that effectively ended the Beatles. You might say this was the last day of the pop era. 1971 started the following day and with it the rock era. The new releases of that hectic year--Don McLean's "American Pie," Sly Stone's "Family Affair," Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," Joni Mitchell's "Blue," Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven," the Who's "Baba O'Riley," and many others--are the standards of today. David Hepworth was twenty-one in 1971, and has been writing and broadcasting about music ever since. In this entertaining and provocative book, he argues that 1971 saw an unrepeatable surge of musical creativity, technological innovation, naked ambition and outrageous good fortune that combined to produce music that still crackles with relevance today. There's a story behind every note of that music. From the electric blue fur coat David Bowie wore when he first arrived in America in February to Bianca's neckline when she married Mick Jagger in Saint-Tropez in May, from the death of Jim Morrison in Paris in July to the re-emergence of Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in August, from the soft launch of Carole King's "Tapestry" in California in February to the sensational arrival of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" in London in November, Hepworth's forensic sweep takes in all the people, places and events that helped make 1971 rock's unrepeatable year.
Call Number: ML3534 .H465 2016ISBN: 9781627793995Publication Date: 2016-06-07
1973: Rock at the Crossroads by
A fascinating account of the music and epic social change of 1973, a defining year for David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Eagles, Elvis Presley, and the former members of The Beatles. 1973 was the year rock hit its peak while splintering--just like the rest of the world. Ziggy Stardust travelled to America in David Bowie's Aladdin Sane. The Dark Side of the Moon began its epic run on the Billboard charts, inspired by the madness of Pink Floyd's founder, while all four former Beatles scored top ten albums, two hitting #1. FM battled AM, and Motown battled Philly on the charts, as the era of protest soul gave way to disco, while DJ Kool Herc gave birth to hip hop in the Bronx. The glam rock of the New York Dolls and Alice Cooper split into glam metal and punk. Hippies and rednecks made peace in Austin thanks to Willie Nelson, while outlaw country, country rock, and Southern rock each pointed toward modern country. The Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, and the Band played the largest rock concert to date at Watkins Glen. Led Zep's Houses of the Holy reflected the rise of funk and reggae. The singer songwriter movement led by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell flourished at the Troubadour and Max's Kansas City, where Bruce Springsteen and Bob Marley shared bill. Elvis Presley's Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite was NBC's top-rated special of the year, while Elton John's albums dominated the number one spot for two and a half months. Just as U.S. involvement in Vietnam drew to a close, Roe v. Wade ignited a new phase in the culture war. While the oil crisis imploded the American dream of endless prosperity, and Watergate's walls closed in on Nixon, the music of 1973 both reflected a shattered world and brought us together.
Call Number: ML3470 .J326 2019ISBN: 9781250299987Publication Date: 2019-12-03
Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century by
NPR Great Read of 2016 From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania--"the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)--comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop. Spearheaded by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, and Roxy Music, glam rock reveled in artifice and spectacle. Reacting against the hairy, denim-clad rock bands of the late Sixties, glam was the first true teenage rampage of the new decade. In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds takes you on a wild cultural tour through the early Seventies, a period packed with glitzy costumes and alien make-up, thrilling music and larger-than-life personas. Shock and Awe offers a fresh, in-depth look at the glam and glitter phenomenon, placing it the wider Seventies context of social upheaval and political disillusion. It explores how artists like Lou Reed, New York Dolls, and Queen broke with the hippie generation, celebrating illusion and artifice over truth and authenticity. Probing the genre's major themes--stardom, androgyny, image, decadence, fandom, apocalypse--Reynolds tracks glam's legacy as it unfolded in subsequent decades, from Eighties art-pop icons like Kate Bush through to twenty-first century idols of outrage such as Lady Gaga. Shock and Awe shows how the original glam artists' obsessions with fame, extreme fashion, and theatrical excess continue to reverberate through contemporary pop culture.
Call Number: ML3534 .R49 2016ISBN: 9780062279804Publication Date: 2016-10-11
Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Heavy Metal by
The definitive oral history of heavy metal,nbsp;Loudernbsp;Than Hellnbsp;by renowned music journalists Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman includesnbsp;hundreds of interviews with the giants of the movement, conducted over the past 25 years. Unlike many forms of popular music, metalheads tend to embrace their favorite bands and follow them over decades. Metal is not only a pastime for the true aficionados; it’s a lifestyle and obsession that permeates every aspect of their being. Louder Than Hell is an examination of that cultural phenomenon and the much-maligned genre of music that has stood the test of time. Louder than Hell features more than 250 interviews with some of the biggest bands in metal, including Black Sabbath, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Spinal Tap, Pantera, White Zombie, Slipknot, and Twisted Sister; insights from industry insiders, family members, friends, scenesters, groupies, and journalists; and 48 pages of full-color photographs.
Call Number: ML3534 .W54 2013ISBN: 9780061958281Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by
Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented--all at once, from one block to the next, by musicians who knew, admired, and borrowed from one another. Crime was everywhere, the government was broke, and the city's infrastructure was collapsing. But rent was cheap, and the possibilities for musical exploration were limitless. Love Goes to Buildings on Fire is the first book to tell the full story of the era's music scenes and the phenomenal and surprising ways they intersected. From New Year's Day 1973 to New Year's Eve 1977, the book moves panoramically from post-Dylan Greenwich Village, to the arson-scarred South Bronx barrios where salsa and hip-hop were created, to the Lower Manhattan lofts where jazz and classical music were reimagined, to ramshackle clubs like CBGBs and The Gallery, where rock and dance music were hot-wired for a new generation. As they remade the music, the musicians at the center of the book invented themselves: Willie Colón and the Fania All-Stars renting Yankee Stadium to take salsa to the masses, New Jersey locals Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith claiming the jungleland of Manhattan as their own, Grandmaster Flash transforming the turntable into a musical instrument, David Byrne and Talking Heads proving that rock music "ain't no foolin' around." Will Hermes was there--venturing from his native Queens to the small dark rooms where the revolution was taking place--and inLove Goes to Buildings on Fire he captures the creativity, drive, and full-out lust for life of the great New York musicians of those years, who knew that the music they were making would change the world.
Call Number: ML3477.8.N48 H47 2011ISBN: 9780865479807Publication Date: 2011-11-08
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by
"Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk is the one story about the 1970s and the Blank Generation that has never before been told. Chronicling the birth of what we now call punk, from Andy Warhol's Factory to Max's Kansas City and CBGB's in the 1960s and 1970s, and on to the UK in the 1980s, authors Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain deliver the explosive story of America's most misunderstood pop phenomenon. Seamlessly constructed from a chorus of voices, Please Kill Me is oral history with all the narrative drive and excitement of a novel." "In hundreds of interviews with all of the original players, including Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Debbie Harry, Nico, Wayne Kramer, Danny Fields, Richard Hell, and Malcolm McLaren, we go backstage and behind apartment doors to relive what started in New York's underbelly as an exclusive art scene and became a truly revolutionary moment in music. Please Kill Me begins when CBGB's and the Bowery were a veritable no-man's-land: relives the heyday of the Velvet Underground, the Ramones, the MC5, the Stooges, the New York Dolls, Television, and the Patti Smith Group; and explores punk's demise - when it became front-page news and a new trend for latecomers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Call Number: ML3534 .P624 1996ISBN: 0802115888Publication Date: 1996-05-13
They Just Seem a Little Weird: How Kiss, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll by
A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands--KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz--laid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the '80s and grunge in the '90s. It was the age when heavy-footed, humorless dinosaurs roamed the hard-rock landscape. But that all changed when into these dazed and confused mid-'70s strut-ted four flamboyant bands that reveled in revved-up anthems and flaunted a novel theatricality. In They Just Seem a Little Weird, veteran entertainment journalist Doug Brod offers an eye- and ear-opening look at a crucial moment in music history, when rock became fun again and a gig became a show. This is the story of friends and frenemies who rose, fell, and soared once more, often sharing stages, studios, producers, engineers, managers, agents, roadies, and fans-and who are still collaborating more than forty years on. In the tradition of David Browne's Fire and Rain and Sheila Weller's Girls Like Us, They Just Seem a Little Weird seamlessly interweaves the narratives of KISS, Cheap Trick, and Aerosmith with that of Starz, a criminally neglected band whose fate may have been sealed by a shocking act of violence. This is also the story of how these distinctly American groups-three of them now enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-laid the foundation for two seemingly opposed rock genres: the hair metal of Poison, Skid Row, and Mötley Crüe and the grunge of Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and the Melvins. Deeply researched, and featuring more than 130 new interviews, this book is nothing less than a secret history of classic rock.
Call Number: ML3534 .B73 2022ISBN: 0306845229Publication Date: 2022-06-21
Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco by
A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the culture that spawned it Disco may be the most universally derided musical form to come about in the past forty years. Yet, like its pop cultural peers punk and hip hop, it was born of a period of profound social and economic upheaval. InTurn the Beat Around, critic and journalist Peter Shapiro traces the history of disco music and culture. From the outset, disco was essentially a shotgun marriage between a newly out and proud gay sexuality and the first generation of post-civil rights African Americans, all to the serenade of the recently developed synthesizer. Shapiro maps out these converging influences, as well as disco's cultural antecedents in Europe, looks at the history of DJing, explores the mainstream disco craze at it's apex, and details the long shadow cast by disco's performers and devotees on today's musical landscape. One part cultural study, one part urban history, and one part glitter-pop confection,Turn the Beat Aroundis the most comprehensive study of the Me Generation to date.
Call Number: ML3526 .S5 2005ISBN: 0571211941Publication Date: 2005-06-01
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop by
The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture--from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire "The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful."--Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hip-Hop (And Other Things) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Spin The music that would come to be known as hip-hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now, fifty years later, it's the most popular music genre in America. Just as jazz did in the first half of the twentieth century, hip-hop and its groundbreaking DJs and artists--nearly all of them people of color from some of America's most overlooked communities--pushed the boundaries of music to new frontiers, while transfixing the country's youth and reshaping fashion, art, and even language. And yet, the stories of many hip-hop pioneers and their individual contributions in the pre-Internet days of mixtapes and word of mouth are rarely heard--and some are at risk of being lost forever. Now, in The Come Up, the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Abrams offers the most comprehensive account so far of hip-hop's rise, a multi-decade chronicle told in the voices of the people who made it happen. In more than three hundred interviews conducted over three years, Abrams has captured the stories of the DJs, executives, producers, and artists who both witnessed and themselves forged the history of hip-hop. Masterfully combining these voices into a seamless symphonic narrative, Abrams traces how the genre grew out of the resourcefulness of a neglected population in the South Bronx, and from there how it flowed into New York City's other boroughs, and beyond--from electrifying live gatherings, then on to radio and vinyl, below to the Mason-Dixon Line, west to Los Angeles through gangster rap and G-funk, and then across generations. Abrams has on record Grandmaster Caz detailing hip-hop's infancy, Edward "Duke Bootee" Fletcher describing the origins of "The Message," DMC narrating his role in introducing hip-hop to the mainstream, Ice Cube recounting N.W.A's breakthrough and breakup, Kool Moe Dee recalling his Grammys boycott, and countless more key players. Throughout, Abrams conveys with singular vividness the drive, the stakes, and the relentless creativity that ignited one of the greatest revolutions in modern music. The Come Up is an exhilarating behind-the-scenes account of how hip-hop came to rule the world--and an essential contribution to music history.
Call Number: ML3531 .A27 2022ISBN: 9781984825131Publication Date: 2022-10-18
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: An Anthology by
Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus.
Call Number: ML3534 .B315 1987ISBN: 039453896XPublication Date: 1987-10-12
Articles
- "Janis Joplin: Girl of the Electric Generation" by Lillian Roxon, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 October 1970
- "Black Sabbath: Paranoia -- As the Fans Go Wild for Sabbath" by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 31 October 1970
- "The Faces: The Daring Young Man and the Flying Chimpanzees" by Dave Marsh, Creem, August 1972
- "The Stooges: The Apotheosis of Every Parental Nightmare" by Lester Bangs, Stereo Review, July 1973
- "Kiss: 'Big Bands Hate Us 'Cause We Steal Their Audiences'" by Dan Nooger, Circus, March 1975
- "Bruce Springsteen Is Not God (And Doesn't Want to Be)" by Robert Duncan, Creem, January 1976
- "Earth Wind and Fire: Signs Rise for Shining Stars" by David Resin, Rolling Stone, 29 January 1976
- "Never Mind The Sex Pistols, Here Comes the Wrath of Sid!" by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 17 December 1977
- "From Blondie With Love…" by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 9 September 1978
- "The Sugarhill Gang: Freak of the Week" by Davitt Sigerson, Melody Maker, 15 December 1979
- Rock's BackpagesAn archive of music journalism and popular music writing of the last 60 years. Includes 38,000 articles on all subcategories of popular music.
Archival Materials
Jas Obrecht Collection, 1970s-2016
This collection contains audio interview recordings by Jas Obrecht for Guitar Player magazine. Some of the recordings include 1970s interviews with Country Joe MacDonald (FS-150, FS-151), Mick Taylor (FS-202, FS-203, FS-204), John Oats (FS-554, FS-555), and Paul Rodgers (FS-589). Of particular interest is Eddie Van Halen's first interview recorded by Obrecht on July 23, 1978 (FS-209).
Mark J. O'Donnell Collection, 1960-2018
This collection contains audio recordings of bootlegged live performances collected by Mark J. O'Donnell. Some of these recordings include rock artists, such as Elton John, Eric Clapton, Jackson Brown, the Clash, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Bob Dylan, the Eagles, the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, and many others, during the 1970s.
Dick Waterman Photograph Collection, 1960-2003
This collection includes photographic negatives and proof sheets by Dick Waterman of the Rolling Stones on tour from 1970 to 1975 (PF-20533/206-233) and of Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy performing in London, England during 1970 (PF-20533/192).
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Videos
Imagine: Gimme Some Truth by
Imagine: Filmed in 1971 at John and Yoko's homes in London and in New York, John and Yoko along with numerous guest stars, create a world of imagination as rich and moving as the music that accompanies it.
Gimme some truth: Chronicles the creative process of the making of the Imagine album.
Call Number: 65-DVD24154Publication Date: 2018
Studio 54 by
For 33 months, from 1977 to 1980, the nightclub Studio 54 was the place to be seen in Manhattan. A haven of hedonism, tolerance, glitz and glamour, Studio 54 was very hard to gain entrance to and impossible to ignore, with news of who was there filling the gossip columns daily. Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, two college friends from Brooklyn, succeeded in creating the ultimate escapist fantasy in the heart of the theater district.
Call Number: 65-DVD23888Publication Date: 2018
Nightclubbing : The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC by
Explores the history of the New York City nightclub Max's Kansas City and its influence on punk rock music and culture.
Call Number: 65-DVD25459Publication Date: 2023
The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle by
Story of the most notorious band in the world. In ten simple lessons, manager Malcolm McLaren tells the story of the Sex Pistols. Includes all their top ten hits.
Call Number: VC-339Publication Date: 1992
The Last Waltz by
The Band, one of rock's superstar groups, decided to call it quits after sixteen grueling years on the road. The group held this farewell concert on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, at San Francisco's Winterland, the site of their first performance. The performance is interspersed with interview footage.
Call Number: 65-DVD5040Publication Date: 2002
Wattstax by
On Aug. 20, 1972, more than 100,000 people attended a concert that came to be known as 'the Black Woodstock.' Staged in Los Angeles, Calif., it was in part a response to Watts Riot of 1965. Wattstax documents this historic event and includes the once-lost original ending.
Call Number: 65-DVD12797Publication Date: 2004
Festival Express by
In the summer of 1970, several of the era's biggest rock stars, including JanisJoplin, Grateful Dead, The Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Buddy Guy,took to the rails for Festival Express. The show was a multi-artist, multi-city concert tour that captured the spirit and imagination of a generation. The entire experience was filmed both off-stage and on, but the extensive footage of the events remained locked away for decades, only recently having been restored.
Call Number: BRD-31Publication Date: 2014Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival: The Movie by Message to Love has captured on film what many have called the last great rock festival. In 1970, half-a-million flower children set sail for the Isle of Wight, an island off southern England for a five-day event in search of peace, love, and understanding. Amidst the chaos of what's been called "Britain's Woodstock" many of those hippie ideals were lost. This long-awaited feature film documents one of the most significant events in rock 'n' roll history. Two hours of footage highlight legendary performances by The Who, Joan Baez, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Free, The Moody Blues, Ten Years After and Jethro Tull -- and the last stage performance of Jim Morrison with the Doors, and by Jimi Hendrix -- 18 days before his death. Their music stands the test of time, as does this film, as is recalls the sheer hedonism of hippydom, the backstage backstabbing that almost wrecked the festival, and the final passing of an age of innocence -- the last great event.
Call Number: 65-DVD5020Publication Date: 1997
The Mothership Connection by
George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins and the rest of the Parliament/Funkadelic collective perform live at the Houston Summit arena, combining musical mayhem and spectacular sound on The Mothership.
Call Number: DVD-863Publication Date: 2008
Old Gray Whistle Test, Vol. 1 by
A collection of performances from the cutting-edge British music show that ran from 1971-1987. Includes rarely seen performances by and interviews with John Lennon, Elton John, Bob Marley, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Police, U2, REM and many more.
Call Number: DVD-853Publication Date: 2003
Suggested Subject Headings
"Rock music -- 1971-1980"
"Blues-rock music"
"Country rock music"
"Disco music"
"Funk (Music)"
"Glam rock music"
"Heavy metal (Music)"
"Hip-hop (Music)"
"New wave music"
"Progressive rock music"
"Punk rock music"
"Rap (Music)"
Recommended Albums
Pictorial Works
CBGB and OMFUG by
Hilly Kristal originally intended his club to showcase the type of music his venue's notorious letters stand for: Country, Bluegrass, Blues. Little did he know his club on the Bowery would be the birthplace of a new era of music in New York City: Punk. While CBGB ultimately didn't describe the music the club was known for, OMFUG (Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers) still represents what the club provides for all voracious "eaters" of music.CBGB & OMFUG is a musical and cultural landmark, recognized worldwide and visited by countless tourists and music lovers each year. In these luminous pages, CBGB's influence and legacy is honored with 200 photos of some of the most celebrated artists in music history. With an introduction by Hilly Kristal, an afterword by David Byrne, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and cofounder of Talking Heads, and additional commentary by numerous performers and patrons, CBGB & OMFUG features unforgettable images by the many photographers who documented an American institution.
The Best of Punk Magazine by
The very best of Punk--the legendary magazine thatdefined an era--finds new life in this stunning anthology, featuring originalarticles along with behind-the-scenes commentary and the backstory on eachissue as told by editor-in-chief John Holmstrom. Punkwas the Bible of the urban counterculture movement. It not only gave punkmusic its name, but influenced the East Village art scene and steered the punkaesthetic and attitude. The Best of Punk Magazine includes high-qualityreprints of hard-to-find original issues, as well as rare and unseen photos,essays, interviews, and even handwritten contributions from the likes of AndyWarhol, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Lester Bangs,Legs McNeil, Lenny Kaye, and many more. For collectors, lifelong punks, andthose just discovering what punk is all about, this is the chance see thehistory of the movement come back to life.
Blank Generation Revisited by
Six preeminent rock photographers reveal the photos that launched their careers; in the process revealing the acts that launched modern rock. From the B-52s and the Talking Heads to Richard Hell and Blondie, the influence of the legendary bands that shaped the punk rock movement continues to be heard in music as diverse as folk, rap, alternative, and heavy metal.
Creem by
Between 1969 and 1988, 'Creem' magazine stood at the forefront of youth counterculture with its brazen slogan 'America's only rock 'n' roll magazine'. This title presents a retrospective of the beautiful haze that was rock's golden age, from the end of the hippies through glam and punk, and into 80's heavy metal.
All Access by
Since the 1960s, Ken Regan has captured the passion and energy of rock & roll's most influential performers. His early work with Bob Dylan an the Rolling Stones made him the photographer of choice for historic music events such as Live Aid and Amnesty International's Human Rights Now Worldwide benefit concerts, which gave Regan unique access to the personal side of the music industry's biggest stars. The definitive collection of Regan's best work and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the past forty years covers an amazing Who's Who list of rock superstars: Joan Baez The Beatles Johnny Cash The Doors Bob Dylan The Eagles Janis Joplin Jerry Lee Lewis Madonna Roy Orbison The Rolling Stones Carly Simon Bruce Springsteen Sting James Taylor U2 The Who ...and more! With a wealth of timeless images and revealing stories from his private photoshoots, Access delivers an intimate look at the artists, performances, and unforgettable moments that define popular music.
