Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning
Premise:
Rate the music of the year out of ten, based on the albums, singles, gigs, whatever that stand out for you that year. Non-musical nostalgia is welcome in the thread but that’s beside the point of the poll.
Everyone may nominate one album and one song from the year which will then be collated into side-polls on the final day of the thread (in one week) - please make it clear when you post, e.g
Nominate Album: Artist - Title
Nominate Song: Artist - Title
Otherwise feel free to just spam the thread with chat about as much music from the year as you like.
It was the year of the first commercial Concorde flight, the Apple computer company was founded, The CN Tower in Toronto was completed and opened as the tallest free-standing structure in the world, Fidel Castro became president of Cuba, NASA unveiled Enterprise, the first space shuttle and the UK had one of its hottest heatwaves in living memory.
We said goodbye to Agatha Christie, Sid James (whilst performing on stage in front of an audience who thought it was part of the show), Howard Hughes and Vince Guaraldi, and said hello to Ronaldo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Reese Witherspoon and Emma Bunton.
70s feels like a bit of a void in my music knowledge singles wise but there’s generally a few disco hits I love in each year so for my single nomination I’ll go for Thelma Huston.
Lots of albums to consider so I’ll ponder a little longer.
The list are useful, so I appreciate you posting, but that singles list is a nightmare with so many reissues from previous years! For example, Radioactivity is '75 but shows up in '76 too. This happened lots with Bowie too.