The seventies were pretty crazy. If the sixties brought us the sexual revolution, challenged convention, and gave rise to the counterculture, then the seventies took it out for a spin and stepped on the gas.
Despite what you’ve heard about the “Disco Era,” it was a great decade for music. Funk, soul, glam, progressive, fusion, rock and the dreaded term “soft rock” all left their mark. Soft rock was nothing more than songwriter-driven pop music by acts like Paul Simon, Jim Croce, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, James Taylor and others. Seventies funk has become legendary. The music wasn’t all good though. We also had to wade through stuff like Paul Anka’s “(You’re) Having my Baby.”
In the seventies, hedonism was in; cocaine was in; people were going to clubs, and everyone was on the make. In post-sixties, pre-HIV America, you could step outside your front door and hear…
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