Paul McCartney entered the '70s with the Beatles in his rearview window. They'd obviously be quite an act to follow. Then McCartney founded Wings and saw 14 more singles reach the Billboard Top 10, ...

The ’70s were defined by change for Genesis. Their first album of the decade, 1970’s Trespass, became their last with ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Arguably one of the best decades of music, the 1970s saw the rise of disco, long shaggy hair, the ...

In his autobiography, Elvis Costello wrote that the popular idea of him early on as an angry man was just a trick of physiology. He wrote: “It seems that the space between my two front teeth, which ...

The '70s were defined by music ranging from pop and punk to country rock and metal, but one genre stands out in the classic rock field: hard rock. Easily encompassing many of the above styles, as well ...

Everybody knows how George Harrison started the ’70s: His seven-times platinum international chart-topping triple album All Things Must Pass reeled off the No. 1 “My Sweet Lord” in the wake of the ...

John Lennon and Frank Sinatra agreed that this classic 1970s song was the greatest of all time. Today, it is featured on channels of soft rock songs grouped in a genre called Yacht Rock. But the ...

A run-in with the law, a few beers, and a wild idea in a Texas jail led to one of country music’s biggest hits.

The best ’70s albums capture a complex, tumultuous transitional moment in history, wedged between the hippie 1960s and the gleaming, new-wave ’80s, pioneering new approaches to music to survey an era ...