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Bohemian Rhapsody

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the English Rock music band Queen . It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera ....
 is named 'The Best Single Of The Last 25 Years' by BPI
British Phonographic Industry

The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade group. Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four 'major' record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies representing literally thousands of labels....
.

In this year, the St. Magnus Festival was founded in Orkney by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Order of the British Empire , is an English composer and Conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music....
.

The soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
 to the film Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 in film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a local discoth?que....
 was an enormous hit that established the Bee Gees (who had composed most of the tracks) as the most popular artists in the world, and the best-selling artist since the Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
. Saturday Night Fever also moved disco
Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
 music into the mainstream, and it dominated the charts for the next few years.

Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett

James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday." He has a devoted base of Fan known as "Parrotheads." His band is called the Coral Reefer Band....
's Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is the breakthrough 1977 in music album by United States popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett....
 is also especially notable in its inclusion of "Margaritaville", the biggest single of his career.






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Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the English Rock music band Queen . It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera ....
 is named 'The Best Single Of The Last 25 Years' by BPI
British Phonographic Industry

The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade group. Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four 'major' record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies representing literally thousands of labels....
.

In this year, the St. Magnus Festival was founded in Orkney by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Order of the British Empire , is an English composer and Conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music....
.

The soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
 to the film Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 in film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a local discoth?que....
 was an enormous hit that established the Bee Gees (who had composed most of the tracks) as the most popular artists in the world, and the best-selling artist since the Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
. Saturday Night Fever also moved disco
Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
 music into the mainstream, and it dominated the charts for the next few years.

Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett

James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday." He has a devoted base of Fan known as "Parrotheads." His band is called the Coral Reefer Band....
's Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is the breakthrough 1977 in music album by United States popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett....
 is also especially notable in its inclusion of "Margaritaville", the biggest single of his career. This album helped establish Buffett as a popular artist, and earned him much of the rabid fanbase ("Parrotheads") that he eventually became known for. Billy Joel
Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
's The Stranger
The Stranger (album)

The Stranger is the fifth studio album by musician Billy Joel, released in 1977 . While his four previous albums had been moderate chart successes, this was his breakthrough album, spending 6 weeks at #2 in the U.S....
 was enormously popular, and includes his beloved medly, "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant". Lastly, Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
's Rumours
Rumours

Rumours is the thirteenth album by Rock music band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1977 in music. It was the second album recorded with this line-up, following the successful self-titled Fleetwood Mac album in 1975....
 is the most popular and critically acclaimed LP of the band's career; it is one of the best-selling albums of all time.

  • January 1 - The Clash
    The Clash

    The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
     headline the gala opening of the London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
     music club, The Roxy
    The Roxy

    The Roxy was a fashionable nightclub on Neal Street in London's Covent Garden, known for hosting the flowering British punk music scene in its infancy....
    .
  • January 12 - Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards
    Keith Richards

    Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
     is fined 750 pounds for possession of cocaine
    Cocaine

    Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine....
     which was found in his wrecked car on May 19, 1976. Richards was charged an additional 250 pounds for court costs and found "not guilty" of possession of LSD
    LSD

    Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, LSD-25, or acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family. Its unusual psychological effects, which include visuals of colored patterns behind the eyes in the mind, a sense of time distorting, and crawling geometric patterns, have made it one of the most widely known psyched...
    .
  • January 26
    • Patti Smith
      Patti Smith

      Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an United States singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses ....
       falls off the stage while opening for Bob Seger
      Bob Seger

      Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band....
       in Tampa, Florida
      Tampa, Florida

      Tampa is a United States city in Hillsborough County, Florida, on the west coast of the state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County....
      . Smith is rushed to the hospital for 22 stitches to close head lacerations. While recovering, Smith writes her fifth book of poetry, Babel.
    • Fleetwood Mac
      Fleetwood Mac

      Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
      's original lead guitarist, Peter Green
      Peter Green (musician)

      Peter Green is a United Kingdom blues-rock guitarist and founder of the band Fleetwood Mac.A figurehead in the British blues movement, Green inspired B....
      , is committed to a mental hospital in England
      England

      native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
       after firing a pistol at a delivery boy bringing him a royalties check
  • Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
     enters rehab for his alcoholism, after ten years of drinking a pack of beer a day.
  • January 27 - After releasing only one single for the band, EMI
    EMI

    The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
     terminates its contract with the Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols

    The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
    .
  • February 4 - American Bandstand
    American Bandstand

    American Bandstand is a television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark , who also served as producer....
     celebrates its 25th anniversary on television with a special hosted by Dick Clark
    Dick Clark (entertainer)

    Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark is an American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman; he served as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions, which he has sold part of in recent years....
    . An "all-star band" made up of Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry

    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
    , Seals & Crofts, Gregg Allman
    Gregg Allman

    Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman , is a rock music and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band....
    , Junior Walker, Johnny Rivers
    Johnny Rivers

    Johnny Rivers is an United States rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was versatile enough to do folk songs, blues, and revivals of old-time rock 'n' roll songs and some original material....
    , the Pointer Sisters, Charlie Daniels
    Charlie Daniels

    Charlie Daniels is an United States musician famous for his contributions to country music and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his Number One country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written....
    , Doc Severinsen
    Doc Severinsen

    Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an United States popular music and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson....
    , Les McCann
    Les McCann

    Les McCann is a soul jazz piano player and vocalist whose biggest successes came as a crossover artist into R&B and soul....
    , Donald Byrd
    Donald Byrd

    Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II is an United States jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter.BiographyEarly life and education...
    , Chuck Mangione
    Chuck Mangione

    Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1978 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good "....
     and three members of Booker T and the MGs perform "Roll Over Beethoven."
  • February 14 - The B-52's
    The B-52's

    The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
     make their debut at a party in Athens, Georgia
    Athens, Georgia

    Athens-Clarke County is a Consolidated city-county in Georgia , United States, in the northeastern part of the state, at the intersection of U.S....
  • February 15 - Sid Vicious
    Sid Vicious

    Sid Vicious was an England musician best known as the former bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols....
     replaces Glen Matlock
    Glen Matlock

    Glen Matlock is a bass guitarist most famous for being in the original lineup of the punk rock band Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs, while lead singer John Lydon came up with the lyrics....
     as the bassist for the Sex Pistols.
  • February 27 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police raid Keith Richards
    Keith Richards

    Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
    ' Toronto
    Toronto

    Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
     hotel suite while he is sleeping and seize 22 grams of heroin
    Heroin

    Heroin is a opioid synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-acetate ester of morphine . The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochloride salt diacetylmorphine hydrochloride, however heroin Freebase may also appear as a white powder....
    , 5 grams of cocaine
    Cocaine

    Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine....
     and narcotics paraphernalia. Richards is arrested and charged with possession of heroin with intent to traffic, and possession of cocaine. He is released on $25,000 bail
  • March 1 - Sara Lowndes Dylan
    Sara Dylan

    Sara Dylan , born as Shirley Marlin Noznisky and later known as Sara Lownds, was the first wife of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. She was married to Bob Dylan from November 1965 until June 1977....
     files for divorce from her husband of 11 years, Bob Dylan.
  • March 10 - A&M Records
    A&M Records

    A&M Records is an United States record label owned by Universal Music Group which operates through the Interscope-Geffen-A&M division....
     signs the Sex Pistols in a ceremony in front of Buckingham Palace
    Buckingham Palace

    Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal entertaining, and a major tourist attraction....
    . The contract is terminated on March 16.
  • April 22 - Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd

    Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
     opened the North American leg of their "Animals" tour in Miami, Florida
    Miami, Florida

    Miami is a global city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the most populous county in Florida....
  • April 24 - Several artists including Joan Baez
    Joan Baez

    Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
    , Santana
    Carlos Santana

    Carlos Augusto Santana Alves is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American Rock music musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana , which created a highly successful blend of rock music, salsa music, and jazz fusion....
     and others perform at a free concert for the inmates of California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
    's Soledad Prison.
  • April 25 - During a concert at the Saginaw, Michigan
    Saginaw, Michigan

    Saginaw is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County, Michigan. Once two independent cities, the consolidated City of Saginaw was once a thriving lumber town and manufacturing center that in recent years has suffered from population decline, job losses, and increased crime rates....
     Civic Center, Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
     makes what would turn out to be the last recordings he would ever make. Three songs recorded at the show would later appear (with overdubs), on the posthumously released album, Moody Blue.
  • April 26 - New York
    New York

    The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
    's disco Studio 54
    Studio 54

    Studio 54 is a New York City Broadway theater and former discoth?que located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan. The disco opened on April 26, 1977 and closed in March 1986 and briefly reopened in 1994 after a multi-million dollar renovation....
     opens.
  • June - Founding of the Nikikai Opera Foundation.
  • May 11 - The Stranglers
    The Stranglers

    The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
     and support band London
    London (band)

    This article is about the English band London. For the American band with the same name, see London . London were a four piece punk band formed in London in 1976 and were best known for their wild stage act....
     start a 10 week national UK tour.
  • June 12 - The Supremes
    The Supremes

    The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
     performed for the last time together at Drury Lane
    Drury Lane

    Drury Lane is a street in the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. The northern part is in the borough of London Borough of Camden and the southern part in the City of Westminster....
     Theatre in London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
     and officially disbanded.
  • July 24 - Led Zeppelin
    Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
     perform in Oakland at their last ever concert in the United States.
  • August 16 - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
     is found dead at his home Graceland
    Graceland

    Graceland is the name of the estate and large white-columned mansion, located at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
     in Memphis, Tennessee.
  • August 17 - Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD) reported that in one day the number of orders for flowers to be delivered to Graceland
    Graceland

    Graceland is the name of the estate and large white-columned mansion, located at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
     for the funeral of Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
     had surpassed the number for any other event in the company's history.
  • September 16 - T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan
    Marc Bolan

    Marc Bolan , was an England singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T.Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era, though he preferred to call his music Cosmic Rock, and made him one of the most recognisable stars in United Kingdom music....
     is killed in an automobile accident.
  • October 20 - A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
     crashes in Mississippi, killing songwriter & vocalist Ronnie Van Zant
    Ronnie Van Zant

    Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Van Zant was the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of 38 Special founder and vocalist Donnie Van Zant and current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant....
    , guitarist Steve Gaines
    Steve Gaines

    Steven Earl Gaines was an United States musician. He is most well-known as a guitarist and songwriter for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd....
     and background vocalist Cassie Gaines
    Cassie Gaines

    Cassie LaRue Gaines was an United States singer. She was a member of female gospel music vocal trio The Honkettes, who in 1975 became the backup singers for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd....
    .
  • December 14 Saturday Night Fever
    Saturday Night Fever

    Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 in film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a local discoth?que....
     appears in theaters, igniting a new popularity for Disco
    Disco

    Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
     music.
  • Luigi Sagrati
    Luigi Sagrati

    Luigi Sagrati was an Italian violist.He began studying the violin very young, and graduated cum laude from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia....
     becomes president of the Unione Musicisti di Roma.
  • Kenny Rogers
    Kenny Rogers

    Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
     releases his album "Ten Years Of Gold
    Ten Years Of Gold

    Ten Years Of Gold is a compilation album by Kenny Rogers issued in 1977....
    " less than 12 months after scoring his first solo hit, following the break up of his pop/country band, The First Edition. The album features the original versions of his recent solo hits and re-recordings of First Edition classics.
  • INXS
    INXS

    INXS is an Australian Rock music and New Wave music band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on Keyboard instrument, Jon Farriss on Drum kit, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/saxophone....
     forms in Sydney
    Sydney

    Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
    , Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  • Black Flag
    Black Flag (band)

    Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes....
     forms
  • The Kats
    The Kats

    The Kats first came to Los Angeles in 1976, from Minneapolis, as theband Skogie . In 1978 they formed The Kats  by adding guitar hero Pete McRae to the band, debuting at the Troubadour's Hoot Night in late September 1978 after sweltering through myriad gigs at The Rock Corporation....
     forms in Hollywood, California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
  • The B-52's
    The B-52's

    The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
     forms
  • Crass
    Crass

    Crass were an English punk band, formed in 1977, which promoted anarchism as a political ideology, lifestylism, and as a resistance movement. Crass popularized the seminal anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture, and advocated direct action, animal rights, and environmentalism....
     forms
  • Def Leppard
    Def Leppard

    Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
     forms in Sheffield
    Sheffield

    Sheffield is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. It is so named because of its origins in a field on the River Sheaf that runs through the city....
    , Yorkshire
    Yorkshire

    Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
  • Whitesnake
    Whitesnake

    Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
     forms
  • X (US) forms
  • The Fall forms in Manchester
    Manchester

    Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
    , England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  • The Meters
    The Meters

    The Meters were an United States funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their music from the late 1960s until 1977....
     break up
  • Dire Straits
    Dire Straits

    Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
     is founded
  • Stiff Little Fingers
    Stiff Little Fingers

    Stiff Little Fingers are a Punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk....
     is founded
  • The Cars
    The Cars

    The Cars were an American Rock music band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. Members of the band were singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson ....
     sign a contract with Elektra Records
    Elektra Records

    Elektra Records is a now-dormant United States record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group....
  • Devo
    Devo

    Devo , often spelled DEVO or DEV-O, is an American Rock music group formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. They are best known for their 1980 hit "Whip It", which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
     signs a contract with Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.

    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
  • Midnight Oil
    Midnight Oil

    Midnight Oil, or the Oils to fans, was an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drum kit Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard instrument/lead guitarist Jim Moginie....
     sign a contract with CBS Records
    CBS Records

    CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 in music to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties distributed by CBS Paramount Television....
  • The Neville Brothers
    The Neville Brothers

    The Neville Brothers, an R&B, Soul music and Jazz group, was formed in 1976 in New Orleans, LA....
     sign a contract with A&M Records
  • The Police
    The Police

    The Police were an English Power trio Rock music band consisting of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland . The band became globally popular in the late 1970s, playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, punk rock and reggae music....
     sign a contract with A&M Records
  • Van Halen
    Van Halen

    Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
     signs a contract with Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.

    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
  • Van Morrison
    Van Morrison

    George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
     releases a new album after a three-year absence
  • Luv'
    Luv'

    Luv' is a Netherlands pop girl group which scored a string of successful hit records in a large part of Continental Europe and also South Africa and Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
    , a Dutch girl group, is formed


Albums released

  • Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
    Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!

    Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! is a funk album by Bootsy Collins, released in 1977. It reached number one on Billboard magazine's Top R&B/Soul albums chart, the first P-Funk release to achieve this goal....
     - Bootsy's Rubber Band
    Bootsy's Rubber Band

    Bootsy's Rubber Band was a P-Funk musical ensemble led by pioneering bassist, Bootsy Collins. It also included his sibling, Catfish Collins, Kash Waddy, Joel Johnson, Robert Johnson, Gary "Mudbone" Cooper and The Horny Horns....
  • Aja
    Aja (album)

    Aja is an album by the rock band Steely Dan. The album was named after the Korean wife of group co-founder Donald Fagen's friend's brother. Originally released in 1977 in music, it became the group's best-selling album....
     - Steely Dan
    Steely Dan

    Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
  • The Alice Cooper Show
    The Alice Cooper Show

    The Alice Cooper Show is a live concert album by Alice Cooper, released by Warner Bros. in December 1977 in music.It was recorded in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Aladdin Hotel during Alice Cooper's 1977 "King Of The Silver Screen" US summer concert tour....
     - Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
  • Alive II
    Alive II

    Alive II is a 1977 live album from Kiss . It is the group's eighth album and second live album....
     - Kiss
    KISS (band)

    Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
  • Animals
    Animals (album)

    Animals is a concept album by England progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 23 January 1977 in the United Kingdom and on 2 February 1977 in the United States....
    - Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd

    Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
  • Anytime…Anywhere
    Anytime…Anywhere

    Anytime...Anywhere is a 1977 album by Rita Coolidge and was released on the A&M Records label....
    - Rita Coolidge
    Rita Coolidge

    Rita Coolidge is a Grammy Award winning United States singing. She is of Cherokee Native Americans in the United States and Scotland descent....
  • Bad Reputation
    Bad Reputation

    Bad Reputation is the eighth studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1977 . As the front cover suggests, most of the tracks feature only three-quarters of the band, with guitarist Brian Robertson only playing on tracks 3 and 6 ....
    - Thin Lizzy
    Thin Lizzy

    Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Republic of Ireland in 1969. The band were led throughout their recording career by Bass guitar, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott, and are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak " and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major international hits still played regula...
  • Barry Manilow Live
    Barry Manilow Live

    Barry Manilow Live is the fifth album by the singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was released in 1977, and it scored quadruple platinum....
    - Barry Manilow
    Barry Manilow

    Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
  • Bat out of Hell
    Bat out of Hell

    Bat out of Hell is a 1977 album by singer Meat Loaf, songwriter Jim Steinman, and producer Todd Rundgren that became one of the List of best-selling albums worldwide, continuing to sell approximately 200,000 per year....
    - Meat Loaf
    Meat Loaf

    Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an United States rock music musician and actor of theatre and film. He is noted for the Bat out of Hell album trilogy that he created consisting of Bat out of Hell, Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, and several fa...
  • Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
    Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted

    Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted is a 1977 reunion album from The Animals, billed here as The Original Animals....
    - The Animals
    The Animals

    The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
  • The Best of Top of the Pops '77
    The Best of Top of the Pops '77

    The Best of Top of the Pops '77 is a 1977 compilation album released by the Top of the Poppers, who were well-known for their cover-versions of popular songs during the 1970s....
    - Top of the Poppers
  • Blowin' Away
    Blowin' Away

    Blowin' Away was a 1977 album by Joan Baez, her first after switching from A&M Records to CBS Records. The album veered more toward mainstream pop than any album Baez had recorded up to that point, though many critics at the time pointed out that she seemed not entirely comfortable with her "new sound"....
    - Joan Baez
    Joan Baez

    Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
  • Blue Lights in the Basement
    Blue Lights in the Basement

    Blue Lights in the Basement is Roberta Flack's sixth album , released in 1977.Track listing...
    - Roberta Flack
    Roberta Flack

    Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
  • Boats Against the Current
    Boats Against the Current (album)

    Boats Against the Current is a 1977 album by Eric Carmen. The title is taken from a line in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald....
    - Eric Carmen
    Eric Carmen

    Eric Howard Carmen is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.His greatest success came in the 1970s, first as a member of The Raspberries , then with his solo career, including hits like "All By Myself" and "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again"....
  • Book of Dreams
    Book of Dreams

    Book of Dreams is the tenth album by United States Rock music band Steve Miller Band, released in 1977. It has been certified 3x Platinum in the United States....
    - Steve Miller Band
    Steve Miller Band

    Steve Miller Band is an American rock music band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals....
  • Broken Blossom
    Broken Blossom

    Broken Blossom is the fourth studio album by American singer Bette Midler, her second album release in 1977 and her fifth on the Atlantic Records label....
    - Bette Midler
    Bette Midler

    Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
  • The Boomtown Rats
    The Boomtown Rats (album)

    The Boomtown Rats was The Boomtown Rats' first album and included the Rat's first hit single, "Lookin' After No. 1", as well as the subsequent single, "Mary of the 4th Form"....
     - The Boomtown Rats
    The Boomtown Rats

    The Boomtown Rats were an Republic of Ireland rock music musical ensemble, that scored a series of United Kingdom hit record between 1977 and 1980, and were led by singing Bob Geldof, who organized the Ethiopian famine relief efforts, Band Aid and Live Aid....
     (debut)
  • BTO Live - Japan Tour
    BTO Live - Japan Tour

    BTO Live - Japan Tour is an album containing live recordings from a 1976 Bachman-Turner Overdrive Japan tour concert. This album was never released on CD and is a very rare find on vinyl....
     (live) - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
    Bachman-Turner Overdrive

    Bachman-Turner Overdrive is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums just in that decade....
  • Bundle of Joy
    Bundle of Joy (album)

    Bundle of Joy is an album recorded in 1977 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was released on the Columbia Records label and features performances by Hubbard, Dorothy Ashby, Azar Lawrence and Ernie Watts....
     - Freddie Hubbard
    Freddie Hubbard

    Frederick Dewayne Hubbard was an United States jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 60s and on....
  • Cat Scratch Fever
    Cat Scratch Fever

    Cat Scratch Fever is an album by Ted Nugent released in 1977, as well as the name of the album's title song.The song "Home Bound" was covered by the Beastie Boys and Biz Markie as "The Biz vs the Nuge" on the album Check Your Head in 1992....
     - Ted Nugent
    Ted Nugent

    Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an United States hard rock guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes....
  • Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
    Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

    Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is the breakthrough 1977 in music album by United States popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett....
     - Jimmy Buffett
    Jimmy Buffett

    James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday." He has a devoted base of Fan known as "Parrotheads." His band is called the Coral Reefer Band....
  • Chic
    Chic (album)

    Chic is the debut album by American Rhythm and blues band Chic , released on Atlantic Records in 1977. It includes the hit singles "Dance, Dance, Dance " - originally released on label Buddha Records - and "Everybody Dance " ....
     - Chic
    Chic (band)

    Chic is an United States disco and R&B band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bass guitar Bernard Edwards. It is best-known for its commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance " , "Everybody Dance" , "Le Freak" , "I Want Your Love " , "Good Times " , and "My Forbidden Lover" ....
  • Chicago XI
    Chicago XI

    Chicago XI is the eleventh album by United States rock music band Chicago and was released in 1977. As the successor to Chicago X, the album marked the end of an era for Chicago in more ways than one....
     - Chicago
    Chicago (band)

    Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  • The Clash
    The Clash (album)

    The Clash is the first album-length recording released by the England punk rock band The Clash. It was released in two different versions, both of which are still in print: the original version in 1977 and the revised U.S....
     - The Clash
    The Clash

    The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
  • Cluster & Eno
    Cluster & Eno

    Cluster & Eno is a collaborative album by the Germany electronic music group Cluster and United Kingdom Ambient music musician Brian Eno. The style of this album is a collection of gentle melodies: a mixture of Eno?s ambient sensibilities and Cluster's avant-garde style....
     - Cluster
    Cluster (band)

    Cluster is a Germany experimental music musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic music and ambient music....
     & Eno
    Brian Eno

    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
  • Come in from the Rain - Captain & Tennille
    Captain & Tennille

    Captain & Tennille are United States pop music recording artists who achieved recording chart success from 1975-80 with a repertoire of romance and novelty hit songs....
  • Damned, Damned, Damned
    Damned, Damned, Damned

    Damned Damned Damned was also a side project by Casey Chaos, that changed its name to The Other DamnedDamned Damned Damned is the debut album by British punk rock band the Damned, released on 18 February 1977....
     - The Damned
    The Damned

    The Damned are an English Rock music band formed in London in 1976. They are notable for being the first punk rock band from England to release a single , an album , and to tour the United States....
  • Deceptive Bends
    Deceptive Bends

    Deceptive Bends is an album released in 1977 by rock band 10cc.The departure of Kevin Godley and Lol Creme in 1976 to form Godley & Creme could have spelled the end for 10cc....
     - 10cc
    10cc

    10cc were an England art rock rock band who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. Initially comprising four musicians ? Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme ? who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the ?10cc? name in 1972....
  • Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
    Don Juan's Reckless Daughter

    Don Juan's Reckless Daughter is a 1977 double album by the Folk music/Pop music/Rock music musician Joni Mitchell. It is unusual for its experimental style, expanding even further on the jazz fusion sound of Mitchell's Hejira from the year before....
     - Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
  • Draw the Line
    Draw the Line

    Draw the Line is the fifth album by United States hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1977.The album was recorded in an abandoned convent near New York City, rented out for that purpose....
     - Aerosmith
    Aerosmith

    Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
  • Eddie Money
    Eddie Money (album)

    Eddie Money is the self titled debut album by United States musician Eddie Money originally released in 1977. Containing two songs that achieved generous music radio airplay , the album peaked at #37 on the charts, establishing Money as a successful artist....
     - Eddie Money
    Eddie Money

    Eddie Money is an United States rock music singer-songwriter who found success in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of Top 40 chart-topper and music recording sales certification albums....
  • Elvis in Concert (live) - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • Even in the Quietest Moments
    Even in the Quietest Moments

    Even in the Quietest Moments... is the fifth album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 1977 in music.The album was recorded mainly at Caribou Ranch Studios in Colorado with overdubs, vocals and mixing completed at The Record Plant in Los Angeles and was Supertramp's first album to use engineer Peter Henderson, with whom the...
     - Supertramp
    Supertramp

    Supertramp were a United Kingdom progressive rock band that released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s.Their early music included ambitious concept albums, but they are best known for their later hits including "Bloody Well Right", "Dreamer ", "Goodbye Stranger", "Give a Little Bit" and "The Logical Song"....
  • Equal Rights
    Equal Rights (album)

    Equal Rights is an album by Peter Tosh. It was released in 1977 ....
     - Peter Tosh
    Peter Tosh

    Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh was a reggae musician who was a core member of The Wailers who then went on to have a successful solo career as well as being a trailblazer for the Rastafari movement....
  • Exodus
    Exodus (album)

    Exodus is a roots reggae album released by Bob Marley & the Wailers on June 3, 1977 . Much of Exodus was recorded in London, while Bob Marley recuperated from an assassination attempt....
     - Bob Marley and the Wailers
  • Expect No Mercy
    Expect No Mercy

    Expect No Mercy is the ninth studio album by the Scotland rock band Nazareth , released in 1977 ....
     - Nazareth
    Nazareth (band)

    Nazareth are a Scottish rock music band that had several hard rock chart-topper in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songwriter ballad, "Love Hurts."...
  • A Fantasy Love Affair
    A Fantasy Love Affair

    A Fantasy Love Affair is the title of the first solo album released by Peter Brown . The album was recorded in 1976 and released in 1977. It charted #9 on Billboard's R&B charts and #11 on the Pop chart....
     - Peter Brown
    Peter Brown

    Peter Brown may refer to:...
  • A Farewell to Kings
    A Farewell to Kings

    A Farewell to Kings is the fifth studio album by Canada rock music band Rush , released in 1977 in music. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales and mixed at Advision Studios in London....
     - Rush
    Rush (band)

    Rush is a Canadian Rock music band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale, Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently composed of bass guitar, keyboard instrument, and singer Geddy Lee; electric guitar Alex Lifeson; and drum kit and lyricist Neil Peart....
  • Focus con Proby
    Focus con Proby

    Focus Con Proby is Focus ' 7th studio album and was released in January 1978. It featured collaborations with American singer P. J. Proby and guitarist Eef Albers, and featured Philip Catherine and the other three Focus members from previous albums....
     - Focus
    Focus (band)

    Focus is a Netherlands progressive rock band. It was founded by classically trained organ /flautist Thijs van Leer in 1969. It is most famous for the songs "Hocus Pocus " and "Sylvia"....
  • Foreigner
    Foreigner (album)

    Foreigner is the self-titled debut studio album by rock and roll band Foreigner , released in 1977....
    - Foreigner
    Foreigner (band)

    Foreigner is a Rock music band formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald , along with then-unknown vocalist Lou Gramm ....
     (debut)
  • Forever for Now
    Forever For Now

    Forever for Now is the sixth studio album by Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble April Wine, released in 1977. The album featured a variety of genres including: country and western, Latin, Caribbean, blues, easy listening, and rock....
    - April Wine
  • Frampton Comes Alive!
    Frampton Comes Alive!

    Frampton Comes Alive! is a live album by Peter Frampton released in 1976, and one of the best-selling live albums in the United States. Following four solo albums with minimal commercial success, Frampton Comes Alive! was a breakthrough for the artist....
    (live) - Peter Frampton
    Peter Frampton

    Peter Kenneth Frampton is an English musician, singer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd , among others....
  • Freeways
    Freeways (album)

    Freeways is an album by Canada rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, released in 1977. It was the last album that Randy Bachman would be a part of with BTO until the "reunion" in 1983....
    - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
    Bachman-Turner Overdrive

    Bachman-Turner Overdrive is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums just in that decade....
  • Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
    Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome

    Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome is a funk album by Parliament , released in 1977 .The album is considered to be one of the best in Parliament's oeuvre....
    - Parliament
    Parliament (band)

    Parliament was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Funkadelic, both led by George Clinton , began the funk culture of that decade....
  • The Grand Illusion
    The Grand Illusion (album)

    The Grand Illusion is the seventh studio album by Styx , released in 1977 . It became the band's first Triple Platinum album, and spawned the Top 10 hit "Come Sail Away" and the Top 30 hit "Fooling Yourself "....
    - Styx
    Styx (band)

    Styx is an American Rock band. Their hit songs have included "Come Sail Away", "Mr. Roboto", "Babe ", "Lady ", "Blue Collar Man" and "The Best of Times ." Styx is the first band to have four consecutive albums certified multi-platinum by the RIAA....
  • Going for the One
    Going for the One

    Going for the One is the eighth studio album by United Kingdom progressive rock band Yes . It was released in 1977 after an extended break for solo activity, and is especially notable for marking the return of keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who had departed in 1974 in the aftermath of the Tales from Topographic Oceans tour....
    - Yes
    Yes (band)

    Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
  • The Golden Greats
    The Golden Greats

    The Golden Greats is a greatest hits album by Sweet ....
    - Sweet
    Sweet (band)

    Sweet were a popular 1970s United Kingdom glam rock band ....
  • "Heroes" - David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
  • I Robot
    I Robot (album)

    I Robot is a progressive rock album recorded by The Alan Parsons Project, engineered by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson in 1977. It was released by Arista Records in 1977 and re-released on Compact Disc in 1984 and 2007....
    - The Alan Parsons Project
    The Alan Parsons Project

    The Alan Parsons Project was a United Kingdom progressive rock band active between 1975 and 1990, founded by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons....
  • I'm a Man - Bo Diddley
    Bo Diddley

    Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
  • I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight
    I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight

    I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight is a Neil Diamond album released by Columbia Records in 1977 in music. It includes a solo version of the song "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"....
    - Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond

    Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  • I'm in You
    I'm in You

    I'm in You is a 1977 album by Peter Frampton. Frampton returned from touring in 1976 to record this album. Stevie Wonder is also featured....
    - Peter Frampton
    Peter Frampton

    Peter Kenneth Frampton is an English musician, singer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd , among others....
  • (I'm) Stranded
    (I'm) Stranded

    Stranded is the first album by Australian rock music group The Saints ....
    - The Saints
    The Saints (band)

    The Saints are an Australian rock band, formed in Brisbane in 1974. They are considered to be one of the first and most influential punk rock groups....
  • The Idiot
    The Idiot (album)

    The Idiot is the debut solo album by American Rock music singer Iggy Pop. It was the first of two Gramophone record released in 1977 which Pop wrote and recorded in collaboration with David Bowie....
    - Iggy Pop
    Iggy Pop

    Iggy Pop, born James Newell ?sterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947, is an American Rock music singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream success, Iggy Pop is considered an innovator of punk rock, garage rock, and other related rock music....
  • It Feels So Good - The Manhattans
    The Manhattans

    The Manhattans are a popular R&B vocal group with a string of hit records over three decades, but best known for their million-selling songs "Kiss and Say Goodbye" and "Shining Star" in 1976 and 1980, respectively....
  • JT
    JT (album)

    JT is singer-songwriter James Taylor's ninth album, and his first album for Columbia Records. Released in 1977, it contains hit singles in "Handy Man" and "Your Smiling Face" and was Taylor's highest charting album since Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon....
    - James Taylor
    James Taylor

    James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  • Just a Stone's Throw Away - Valerie Carter
    Valerie Carter

    Valerie Carter is an United States singer-songwriter. Carter is perhaps best known as a back-up vocalist who has recorded and performed with a number of singers including Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Linda Ronstadt, Christopher Cross and, most notably, James Taylor....
  • Just a Story from America - Elliott Murphy
    Elliott Murphy

    Elliott James Murphy is an United States Rock singer-songwriter, novelist, Record producer and journalist living in Paris....
  • L.A.M.F.
    L.A.M.F.

    L.A.M.F. is the only studio album by the American band Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, which included such musicians as Walter Lure, Billy Rath, and Johnny Thunders' New York Dolls bandmate Jerry Nolan....
    - The Heartbreakers
    The Heartbreakers

    The Heartbreakers, also known as Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, were an American rock & roll band formed in New York in May 1975. The band was part of the first wave of punk rock....
  • Lace and Whiskey
    Lace and Whiskey

    Lace and Whiskey is an album by Alice Cooper, released in May 1977. After many years of portraying the same dark and sinister persona, Alice decided to try something new....
    - Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
  • Leave Home
    Leave Home

    Leave Home is American punk rock band the Ramones' second album. It features the classic Ramones songs "Pinhead" and "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment." This is the only Ramones album to go through different incarnations on its original release, due to label controversy over the song "Carbona Not Glue."...
    - The Ramones
  • Let There Be Rock - AC/DC
    AC/DC

    AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
  • Lights Out
    Lights Out (UFO album)

    Lights Out is a studio album by the British Rock music band UFO , released in May and on October 11, 1977 . In 1994, a CD comprising this album and No Heavy Petting was released by BGO Records....
    - UFO
    UFO (band)

    UFO is a British hard rock/heavy metal music band formed in 1969. UFO became a transitional group between early hard rock and heavy metal music and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
  • Little Criminals
    Little Criminals

    Little Criminals is a 1977 album from Randy Newman. Like most of Newman's work, the album eschews traditional pop-music themes in favor of musical story-telling, often featuring quirky characters and cynical views....
    - Randy Newman
    Randy Newman

    Randall Stuart ?Randy? Newman is an Academy Award?winning United States singer/songwriter, arrangement, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his wiktionary:mordant pop songs and for his many film scores....
  • Little Queen
    Little Queen

    Little Queen is the second album released by the band Heart . It was released in May 1977 , and re-released in 2004 with two bonus tracks....
    - Heart
    Heart (band)

    Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
  • Live at Last - Bette Midler
    Bette Midler

    Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
  • Live at the El Mocambo
    Live at the El Mocambo

    Live at the El Mocambo is the second live album by the Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble April Wine, released in 1977. It was recorded during a performance at Toronto's El Mocambo club when April Wine opened for the Rolling Stones during one of the surprise club appearances for which the Stones are renowned, and during which they recor...
    - April Wine
  • Love for Sale
    Love for Sale (Boney M. album)

    Love for Sale is the second album by Boney M.. The album includes the hits "Ma Baker" , "Belfast", "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" and "Still I'm Sad"....
    - Boney M.
  • Love Gun
    Love Gun

    Love Gun is an album by the United States hard rock band Kiss . It was certified Platinum album on June 30, 1977 when it sold 1,000,000 copies....
    - Kiss
    KISS (band)

    Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
  • Low
    Low (album)

    Low is a 1977 album by British musician David Bowie. Widely regarded as one of his most influential releases, Low was the first of the "Berlin Trilogy", a series of collaborations with Brian Eno ....
    - David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
  • Lust for Life
    Lust for Life (album)

    Lust for Life is a 1977 album by Iggy Pop, his second solo release and his second collaboration with David Bowie, following The Idiot earlier in the year....
    - Iggy Pop
    Iggy Pop

    Iggy Pop, born James Newell ?sterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947, is an American Rock music singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream success, Iggy Pop is considered an innovator of punk rock, garage rock, and other related rock music....
  • Majida El Roumi - Majida El Roumi
    Majida El Roumi

    Majida El Roumi was born in Kfarshima, Lebanon on December 13 1956. She is a Lebanon singer and a soprano who started her musical career in the early 1970s when she participated in the talent show, Studio el fan on T?l? Liban and won the gold medal for best female singer....
  • Marlena
    Marlena (album)

    Marlena is the seventh studio album released by Germany Schlager group Die flippers. The group's album sales continued to rise with the release of this album....
    - Die Flippers
    Die Flippers

    Die Flippers are a Germany Schlager group formed in 1964. They are one of the most successful Schlager groups of all time, and have been constantly recording and releasing new music since their self-titled debut album was released in 1970....
  • Marquee Moon
    Marquee Moon

    Marquee Moon is Television 's 1977 debut album . It was re-released September 23, 2003....
    - Television
    Television (band)

    Television, formed in New York City in 1973, is an United States rock music band. Although Television never had more than a cult audience in their American homeland, they achieved significant commercial success in Europe and today are widely regarded as one of the key founders of punk rock....
  • Message Man
    Message Man

    Message Man is the debut album by Eddy Grant. He plays every instrument and sings every voice on this album. The album is significant for its socio-political stance in songs such as 'Race Hate' and 'Cockney Black.' The track, 'Hello Africa', is the highlight of this album with Grant creating a unique genre that remains difficult to catego...
    - Eddy Grant
    Eddy Grant

    Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant is a United Kingdom reggae musician....
  • Montreux '77
    Montreux '77

    Montreux '77 is a 1977 live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a trio led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan.This is one of four albums that Ella recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, being Ella's second Montreux appearance to be released on record....
    - Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  • Motörhead
    Motörhead (album)

    Mot?rhead is the debut album by the Great Britain Heavy metal music band Mot?rhead....
    - Motörhead
    Motörhead

    Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
  • Moody Blue
    Moody Blue

    Moody Blue is the title of Elvis Presley's last album to be released in his lifetime. The album was a mixture of live and studio work, and included tracks from Presley's final studio recording sessions in 1976, including "Moody Blue", a previously released hit, and "Way Down," which would become a hit after Presley's death less than a month aft...
    - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • Moonflower
    Moonflower (album)

    Moonflower is a 1977 live double album by Santana . The recording features both studio and live tracks, which are interspersed with one another throughout the album....
    - Santana
    Santana (band)

    Santana is a flexible number of musicians accompanying Carlos Santana since the late 1960s. Just like Santana himself, the band is known for helping make Latin rock famous in the rest of the world....
  • My Aim Is True
    My Aim Is True

    My Aim Is True is the debut album by Elvis Costello.The album was recorded at Pathway Studios in Islington, London, over the course of 1976 during late-night studio sessions, in a total of twenty-four hours....
    - Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello

    Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
  • Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
    Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

    Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols is the first and only studio album recorded by the Sex Pistols, a highly influential and controversial England punk rock band....
    - Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols

    The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
  • New Boots and Panties!
    New Boots and Panties!

    New Boots and Panties!! is a 1977 album by Ian Dury. Despite popular misconception the album is not credited to 'Ian Dury & The Blockheads' as the band was not formed until the Stiff's Live Stiffs tour some months after its recording, and two of the band do not play on the album....
    - Ian Dury
    Ian Dury

    Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk rock and New Wave music era of rock music....
  • News of the World
    News of the World (album)

    News of the World is the sixth studio album by England rock band Queen , released in 1977.Containing hit songs "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" and "Spread Your Wings", the album went platinum in the United Kingdom, four times platinum album in the United States and achieved high certifications elsewhere throughout the worl...
    - Queen
    Queen (band)

    Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
  • Next
    Next (Journey album)

    Next is the third album by Journey , and was released in 1977 .Journey continued the formula from 1976's Look into the Future, but this album retains much of Journey's jazz-flavored progressiveness from the first album....
    - Journey
    Journey (band)

    Journey is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1973. The band has gone through several phases since its inception by former members of Santana ....
  • Nice to Be Around
    Nice to Be Around (Rosemary Clooney album)

    Nice to Be Around was an LP album recorded by Rosemary Clooney for United Artists Records in 1977 in music. It was released by UA as catalog number UAS 30008....
    - Rosemary Clooney
    Rosemary Clooney

    Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
  • No More Heroes - The Stranglers
    The Stranglers

    The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
  • Now
    Now (The Tubes album)

    Now is the third album released by The Tubes. It was partially produced by John Anthony, producer of Queen and Roxy Music. John Anthony left the project after a drug-induced breakdown, Bill Spooner took over and completed the project with the help of engineer Don Wood....
    - The Tubes
    The Tubes

    The Tubes are a San Francisco, California-based Rock music musical ensemble, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope"....
  • Off the Record
    Off the Record (Sweet album)

    Off The Record is a 1977 album by Sweet .Original album track listing released on RCA Records:-# "Fever Of Love"# "Lost Angels"# "Midnight To Daylight"...
    - Sweet
    Sweet (band)

    Sweet were a popular 1970s United Kingdom glam rock band ....
  • On Earth as It Is in Heaven
    On Earth As It Is In Heaven

    On Earth As It Is In Heaven is the third album by the rock band Angel . This marks the last album with Mickie Jones who was ANGEL's bass player since 1974....
    - Angel
    Angel (band)

    Angel are a glam rock and Heavy metal music band from Washington, DC, formed in the mid-70s by Punky Meadows and Mickie Jones. They were signed to Casablanca Records, and had the image of dressing in white....
  • Out of the Blue
    Out of the Blue (Electric Light Orchestra album)

    Out of the Blue is a double album by Electric Light Orchestra, first released in 1977....
    - Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra

    Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
  • Pacific Ocean Blue
    Pacific Ocean Blue

    Pacific Ocean Blue is Dennis Wilson's only solo album, released in 1977. After several attempts, starting in 1970, to release his own project, some of which made it to the finished album, Wilson recorded the bulk of Pacific Ocean Blue in the months spanning the fall of 1976 to the following spring....
    - Dennis Wilson
    Dennis Wilson

    Dennis Carl Wilson was an United States rock and roll musician best known as a founding member and the drum kit of The Beach Boys. He was a member of the group from its formation until his death in 1983, though in keeping with recording studio practices of the time un credited session musicians would be used....
  • Parliament Live: P-Funk Earth Tour - Parliament
    Parliament (band)

    Parliament was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Funkadelic, both led by George Clinton , began the funk culture of that decade....
  • Passage - Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  • A Period of Transition
    A Period of Transition

    A Period of Transition is an album by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1977 . It was his first album in two and a half years, largely forgotten or looked over by most casual fans....
    - Van Morrison
    Van Morrison

    George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
  • Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
    Peter Gabriel

    Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
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  • Phyllis Hyman
    Phyllis Hyman (album)

    Phyllis Hyman is the self-titled solo debut studio album by American Soul music singer-songwriter Phyllis Hyman. It was released by Buddah Records in 1977 ....
    - Phyllis Hyman
    Phyllis Hyman

    Phyllis Linda Hyman was an United States Soul music singer and Tony Award-nominated actress....
  • Pink Flag
    Pink Flag

    Pink Flag is the first album by the band Wire , released in 1977. Upon its release, Robert Christgau called it a "punk suite" and praised its "simultaneous rawness and detachment" and detected a rock-and-roll irony similar to but "much grimmer and more frightening" than the Ramones....
    - Wire
    Wire (band)

    Wire are an English rock music band formed in London in October 1976, by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed .c) Despite little attention in the beginning, Wire's first three albums are among the most influential on the postpunk era, cited by Michael Stipe of R.E.M....
  • Plastic Letters
    Plastic Letters

    Plastic Letters is the second studio album by United States New Wave music band Blondie , released in 1977 on Chrysalis Records. It was the second and final Blondie album to be produced by Richard Gottehrer....
    - Blondie
    Blondie (band)

    Blondie is an United States rock music band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 30 million albums. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave music and punk rock scenes....
  • Point of Know Return
    Point of Know Return

    Point of Know Return is the fifth album by United States rock music band Kansas , released in 1977 in music.The huge success of Kansas's previous effort, Leftoverture, brought a new kind of pressure....
    - Kansas
    Kansas (band)

    Kansas is an United States progressive rock band which became a popular arena rock group in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"....
  • Prism
    Prism (album)

    Prism is the debut album by Canada rock music band Prism , released in 1977 ....
    - Prism
    Prism (band)

    Prism is a Canadian Rock music band formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1976 by Bruce Fairbairn and Jim Vallance. Although widely associated with rock music, the band's sound incorporates progressive rock and pop rock elements....
  • Ram Jam
    Ram Jam (album)

    Ram Jam is an album released by Ram Jam in 1977 in music. The first track on the album, the music single "Black Betty", is Ram Jam's best known song....
    - Ram Jam
    Ram Jam

    Ram Jam was an United States 1970s rock music band, best known for their 1977 Top 20 chart-topper "Black Betty".The band members were Bill Bartlett , Pete Charles , Myke Scavone , and Howie Arthur Blauvelt ....
  • Quark, Strangeness and Charm
    Quark, Strangeness and Charm

    Quark, Strangeness And Charm is a 1977 studio album by Hawkwind. It reached #30 on the UK album charts.This is Hawkwind's seventh studio album, hence "The Hawkwind Part 7" title on the inner sleeve....
    - Hawkwind
    Hawkwind

    Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
  • Rattus Norvegicus
    Rattus Norvegicus (album)

    Rattus Norvegicus is the first album by The Stranglers, released in 1977. The band's name was printed as "The Stranglers IV" on the sleeve. The album was originally to be entitled "Dead on Arrival" but was changed at the last minute....
    - The Stranglers
    The Stranglers

    The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
  • Regeneration
    Regeneration (album)

    Regeneration is an album by Roy Orbison released in 1977 that marked the return to Monument Records where Orbison had launched his greatest successes more than fifteen years earlier....
    - Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison

    Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  • Rendezvous
    Rendezvous (Sandy Denny album)

    Rendezvous is a 1977 album by English folk rock singer Sandy Denny, and was her last release before her death the following year. Featuring a few cover versions and mostly self-written material, her voice was said to be "showing the strain that came from her fondness for drink and drugs", and the album took almost a year to complete....
    - Sandy Denny
    Sandy Denny

    Sandy Denny, born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny , was an England singer and songwriter who has been described by Allmusic's Richie Unterberger as "the pre-eminent British folk rock singer"....
  • Ringo the 4th
    Ringo the 4th

    Ringo The 4th is an album by Ringo Starr and was released in 1977.After the commercial failure of Ringo's Rotogravure , Starr decided to shift his formula of using his well-known musician friends to write songs and appear on his albums....
    - Ringo Starr
    Ringo Starr

    Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
  • Rocket to Russia
    Rocket to Russia

    Rocket to Russia is the third album by American Punk rock group the Ramones, their last with original drummer Tommy Ramone. Released on November 4 1977, the album incorporates surf rock and other influences....
    - The Ramones
  • Rockin' All Over the World - Status Quo
    Status Quo

    Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
  • Rumours
    Rumours

    Rumours is the thirteenth album by Rock music band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1977 in music. It was the second album recorded with this line-up, following the successful self-titled Fleetwood Mac album in 1975....
    - Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  • Running On Empty
    Running on Empty (album)

    Running on Empty is the fifth album by United States singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1977 . In addition to tracks recorded on-stage during concerts, it also contains songs recorded in hotel rooms, on the tour bus, and backstage....
    - Jackson Browne
    Jackson Browne

    Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  • Saw Delight
    Saw Delight

    Saw Delight is the ninth Can album, and features two new band members who were ex-members of the band Traffic , with Can's bassist Holger Czukay giving up the bass in favour of experimental effects....
    - Can
    Can (band)

    Can were an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. One of the most important krautrock groups, Can incorporated strong minimalism and world music influences....
  • Seconds Out
    Seconds Out

    Seconds Out is a live double album by Genesis , released in October 1977. The performances were recorded in Paris in 1976 and 1977 on their tour in support of A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering....
    (live) - Genesis
    Genesis (band)

    Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
  • Simple Dreams
    Simple Dreams

    Simple Dreams is one of the most successful of Linda Ronstadt's studio albums to date, spending five consecutive weeks at No.1 on the Billboard album chart in late 1977....
    - Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt

    Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
  • Sin After Sin
    Sin After Sin

    Sin After Sin is the third album by the British Heavy metal music group Judas Priest, released in 1977. It was the band's first album released by Columbia Records after terminating their contract with Gull Records....
    - Judas Priest
    Judas Priest

    Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
  • Slowhand
    Slowhand

    Slowhand is an album by Eric Clapton, released in 1977 in music. It contained three of his most popular singles, the bluesy "Cocaine", the ballad "Wonderful Tonight" and the country-flavoured #3 U.S....
    - Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
  • Songs from the Wood
    Songs from the Wood

    Songs from the Wood is an album by Jethro Tull and is officially considered the first of a trio of folk rock albums despite the fact that folk music elements are present in the work of Jethro Tull both before and after this trilogy....
    - Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull (band)

    Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
  • Songs of Kristofferson
    Songs of Kristofferson

    Songs of Kristofferson is a greatest hits compilation album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 1977, after he had become more well known as a movie star than as a singer-songwriter....
    - Kris Kristofferson
    Kris Kristofferson

    Kristoffer Kristian Kristofferson is an United States writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
  • Spectres
    Spectres (album)

    Spectres is a Hard rock album by Blue ?yster Cult released in November 1977 in music. The album was certified gold in January 1978 and contained the album rock hits "Godzilla", "Death Valley Nights", and "I Love the Night"....
    - Blue Öyster Cult
    Blue Öyster Cult

    Blue ?yster Cult is an American rock music band formed in New York in 1967 and still active in 2009. The group is especially well known for songs including " The Reaper", "Godzilla", and "Burnin' for You"....
  • Spiral
    Spiral (album)

    Spiral is a 1977 album by the Greece artist Vangelis. The sleeve design was by Vangelis himself . The recording engineer was Keith Spencer-Allen, assisted by Marlis Duncklau....
    - Vangelis
    Vangelis

    Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou , is a Greek composer of electronic music, Progressive music, Ambient music and neoclassicism music, under the artist name Vangelis ....
  • The Stranger
    The Stranger (album)

    The Stranger is the fifth studio album by musician Billy Joel, released in 1977 . While his four previous albums had been moderate chart successes, this was his breakthrough album, spending 6 weeks at #2 in the U.S....
    - Billy Joel
    Billy Joel

    William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
  • Street Survivors
    Street Survivors

    Street Survivors is the fifth studio album by Southern rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on October 17, 1977. The LP is the last Skynyrd album ever recorded by original members Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins, and is the sole Skynyrd studio recording by guitarist Steve Gaines....
    - Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
  • Streisand Superman
    Streisand Superman

    Streisand Superman is an album released in 1977 by United States singer Barbra Streisand.The single "My Heart Belongs to Me" became a hit in 1977, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100....
    - Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  • Suicide
    Suicide (album)

    Suicide is the influential first studio album by United States No Wave band Suicide , released in 1977. It is often cited as the first synth pop album, but is more intense than most albums of the genre....
    - Suicide
    Suicide (band)

    Suicide is an American synthpunk music group intermittently active since 1971 and composed of Alan Vega and Martin Rev . Like Silver Apples, they are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo....
  • Taken by Force
    Taken by Force

    Taken By Force is the fifth studio album by Germany Heavy metal music band Scorpions that was released in 1978. This was the final Scorpions album to feature guitarist Ulrich Jon Roth....
      - Scorpions
    Scorpions (band)

    Scorpions are a heavy metal music/hard rock band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change "....
  • Talking Heads: 77
    Talking Heads: 77

    Talking Heads: 77 is the debut album by Talking Heads. It peaked at #97 in the Billboard Music Charts Pop Albums chart, and the single "Psycho Killer" made #92....
    - Talking Heads
    Talking Heads

    Talking Heads was an American rock music rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison....
  • Tanz Samba mit Mir - Tony Holiday
    Tony Holiday

    Tony Holiday was a German people pop singer and songwriter.Knigge began his career initially as a textile businessman and fashion designer. In 1974 he received a record contract with Hans Bertram, who rechristened him "Tony Holiday"....
  • Tejas
    Tejas (album)

    Tejas is the fifth album by United States blues-rock band ZZ Top, released in 1977 , although in London Records catalogue it was originally marked under 1976....
    - ZZ Top
    ZZ Top

    ZZ Top is an American Rock music trio formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, United States. The group members are Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard ....
  • Terrapin Station
    Terrapin Station

    Terrapin Station is the ninth studio album by the Grateful Dead, and was originally released on July 27, 1977.This album was the first time since Anthem of the Sun that the Grateful Dead used an outside producer....
    - Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead

    The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
  • The Album
    The Album

    The Album, also known as ABBA - The Album, is the fifth album by Sweden Pop music group ABBA, released in 1977 . It was released in conjunction with ABBA: The Movie....
    - ABBA
    ABBA

    ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
  • The Last Gunfighter Ballad
    The Last Gunfighter Ballad

    The Last Gunfighter Ballad is an album by United States country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1977 . Highlights include the title track, "Far Side Banks of Jordan" and "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine", the latter of which features Cash's brother Tommy Cash....
    - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • The Rambler
    The Rambler (album)

    The Rambler is an album by United States country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1977 . It is a concept album about travel....
    - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • The Second Annual Report
    The Second Annual Report

    The Second Annual Report is a landmark release by industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. The album is a combination of live and studio songs....
    - Throbbing Gristle
    Throbbing Gristle

    Throbbing Gristle is a United Kingdom industrial music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. The band consists of Genesis P-Orridge , Cosey Fanni Tutti , Peter Christopherson , and Chris Carter ....
  • The Visitation - Chrome
    Chrome (band)

    Chrome was a rock music group founded in San Francisco, California in 1976.Inspired by mid-70s punk rock and rock groups such as Hawkwind and Black Sabbath, Chrome's music incorporated synthesizers and sampling , and frequently emphasized themes of science fiction and paranoia....
  • Trans-Europe Express
    Trans-Europe Express (album)

    Trans-Europe Express is a 1977 in music album by Germany electronic music band Kraftwerk....
    - Kraftwerk
    Kraftwerk

    Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from D?sseldorf, Germany. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, Repetitive music rhythms with catchy melody, mainly following a Western classical music style of harmony, with a minimalism and strictly electronic instrumentation....
  • Victim of Romance
    Victim of Romance

    Victim of Romance is singer and songwriter Michelle Phillips' first and only solo album, and was released in February 1977 . The record was unsuccessful and Phillips then favored her acting career....
    - Michelle Phillips
    Michelle Phillips

    Michelle Phillips is an United States singer, songwriter and actor. She gained fame as a member of the popular 1960s singing group The Mamas & the Papas and is the last surviving original member of the group....
  • Virgin Killer
    Virgin Killer

    Virgin Killer is the fourth studio album by the Germany Heavy metal music band Scorpions . It was released in 1976, and was the first album of the band to attract attention outside Europe....
    - Scorpions
    Scorpions (band)

    Scorpions are a heavy metal music/hard rock band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change "....
  • Visitors - Automatic Man
  • Watercolors
    Watercolors (album)

    Watercolors is Pat Metheny's second album, released in 1977....
    - Pat Metheny
    Pat Metheny

    Patrick Bruce Metheny is an United States jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects....
  • Welcome to My World
    Welcome to My World (Elvis Presley album)

    Welcome to My World was the title of a compilation album by Elvis Presley that was released by RCA Records in early 1977, just months before Presley's death....
    - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • Works Volume I
    Works Volume I

    Works Volume I is a 1977 album by progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It is a two-disc set divided into four major sections, one each highlighting each band member, and one for combined works....
    - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
    Emerson, Lake & Palmer

    Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an England progressive rock Supergroup . In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts....
  • Young, Loud and Snotty
    Young, Loud and Snotty

    Young Loud and Snotty is the debut studio album of the American punk band Dead Boys. It was recorded and released in 1977 on Sire Records, with Genya Ravan serving as producer....
    - Dead Boys


Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest in the charts of 1977.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1 The Eagles Hotel California
Hotel California (song)

"Hotel California" is the title song from the Eagles' Hotel California and was released as a single in early 1977. It is one of the best-known songs of the album-oriented rock era....
 
1977 US BB 1 - Mar 1977, Canada 1 - Mar 1977, France 1 - Jun 1977, Grammy in 1977, Switzerland 2 - Jul 1977, OzNet 3, Norway 5 - May 1977, Europe 5 of the 1970s, US BB 6 of 1977, Germany 6 - Jun 1977, TheQ 6, POP 6 of 1977, UK 8 - Apr 1977, Holland 8 - May 1977, Austria 13 - Sep 1977, Belgium 18 of all time, RYM 18 of 1977, Scrobulate 28 of rock, US CashBox 35 of 1977, Poland 38 of all time, Acclaimed 43, Virgin 44, RIAA 46, Rolling Stone 49, 68 in 2FM list, WXPN 73, Party 87 of 2007, Italy 88 of 1977, Germany 317 of the 1970s
2 Donna Summer
Donna Summer

Donna Summer is an United States singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music.Summer was trained as a gospel music singer prior to her introduction to the music industry....
 
I Feel Love
I Feel Love

"I Feel Love" is a song by Donna Summer, taken from her 1977 concept album I Remember Yesterday. The song originally symbolised the 'future' segment of the album, which loosely depicted a musical trip through time....
 
1977 UK 1 - Jul 1977, Holland 1 - Aug 1977, France 1 - Sep 1977, Austria 1 - Aug 1977, Australia 1 for 1 weeks May 1978, Switzerland 2 - Aug 1977, Germany 3 - Aug 1977, Sweden (alt) 5 - Jul 1977, Italy 5 of 1977, US BB 6 - Sep 1977, RYM 7 of 1977, Norway 8 - Nov 1977, Canada 9 - Oct 1977, Australia 17 of 1977, Scrobulate 32 of disco, US CashBox 57 of 1977, Acclaimed 181, Germany 271 of the 1970s, Rolling Stone 411
3 Wings
Wings (band)

Wings was a rock music group formed in August 1971 by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. The group was the only "permanent" group that any of the former members of the Beatles joined after their break-up....
 
Mull of Kintyre
Mull of Kintyre (song)

"Mull of Kintyre" is a popular 1977 song by former the Beatles Paul McCartney and his band Wings . The song was written by McCartney and bandmate Denny Laine in tribute to the picturesque Kintyre peninsula in Argyll & Bute, Scotland, where McCartney had owned a home and recording studio since the late 1960s....
 
1977 UK 1 - Nov 1977, Holland 1 - Dec 1977, Austria 1 - Feb 1978, Switzerland 1 - Jan 1978, Germany 1 - Jan 1978, Éire 1 - Dec 1977, Australia 1 for 11 weeks Jul 1978, Norway 2 - Dec 1977, Australia 2 of 1978, South Africa 5 of 1978, Sweden (alt) 14 - Dec 1977, Germany 21 of the 1970s, RYM 28 of 1977, Europe 76 of the 1970s, Italy 97 of 1978
4 Boney M
Boney M

Boney M. is a West Germany-based pop music and disco group created by West Germany record producer Frank Farian. The four original members of the group's official lineup were Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett , Maizie Williams , and Bobby Farrell ....
 
Ma Baker
Ma Baker

"Ma Baker" is a 1977 disco hit single by German disco band Boney M.. It was the first single off their second album Love for Sale and their third consecutive chart-topper in Germany and their best yet placing in the UK, peaking at #2 although only a minor single in the US ....
 
1977 Holland 1 - May 1977, Sweden (alt) 1 - May 1977, France 1 - Jun 1977, Austria 1 - Jun 1977, Switzerland 1 - May 1977, Norway 1 - Jun 1977, Germany 1 - May 1977, UK 2 - Jun 1977, Italy 16 of 1977, Australia 24 of 1977, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1978, Germany 55 of the 1970s, Scrobulate 80 of disco, RYM 101 of 1977
5 Baccara
Baccara

Baccara was a female vocal duo formed in 1977 by Spain flamenco artists Mayte Mateos and Mar?a Mendiola . The pair rapidly achieved international success with their debut single "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie", which reached Chart-topper across much of Europe....
 
Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

"Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" is a popular hit single by Baccara.Written by Frank Dostal and Rolf Soja and produced by Rolf Soja, this quintessential slice of Euro Disco was the act's sole number one single in the UK, spending a single week at the top in October 1977....
 
1977 UK 1 - Sep 1977, Holland 1 - Jun 1977, Sweden (alt) 1 - Jul 1977, Switzerland 1 - Jun 1977, Norway 1 - Aug 1977, Germany 1 - Jun 1977, Éire 1 - Nov 1977, France 2 - Jun 1977, Austria 2 - Aug 1977, Germany 31 of the 1970s, Italy 81 of 1978, RYM 123 of 1977


Chronological table of US and UK Number One hit singles




US Number One Singles and Artist
(Weeks at Number One)
UK Number One Singles and Artist
(Weeks at Number One)
"Tonight's the Night
Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)

"Tonight's the Night " is a song written and recorded by Rod Stewart at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for his 1976 in music album A Night on the Town ....
" - Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart

Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
 (7 weeks in 1976 + 1 week in 1977)

"You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)
You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)

"You Don't Have to Be a Star " is a hit song for the husband/wife duo of Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., former members of the vocal group The Fifth Dimension....
"- Marilyn McCoo
Marilyn McCoo

Marilyn McCoo is an United States singer and actor, who is well known for being the lead female vocalist in the group The Fifth Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music countdown series Solid Gold ....
 & Billy Davis, Jr.
Billy Davis, Jr.

Billy Davis, Jr. is best known as a member of The Fifth Dimension. Along with his wife, Marilyn McCoo, he had hit record in 1976-1977 with "I Hope We Get to Love in Time", "Your Love ", and "You Don't Have to Be a Star "....
 (1)

"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" - Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer

Leo Sayer is an England-born Australian people singer-songwriter and musician whose singing career has spanned four decades. A distinctive singer-songwriter, Sayer was a top single and album act on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in the 1970s....
 (1)

"I Wish" - Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
 (1)

"Car Wash
Car Wash (song)

"Car Wash" is a 1976 number-one single by Rose Royce for MCA Records, the group's debut single and one of the most notable hits of the disco era....
" - Rose Royce
Rose Royce

Rose Royce is a Grammy Award-winning soul music, funk, and disco band based in Los Angeles. The name "Rose" is taken from frontperson/lead singer Rose Norwalt aka Gwen Dickey....
 (1)

"Torn Between Two Lovers" - Mary MacGregor
Mary MacGregor

Mary MacGregor is an United States singer, best known for singing the 1976 song "Torn Between Two Lovers", which topped the Billboard charts for two weeks....
 (2)

"Blinded by the Light
Blinded by the Light

"Blinded by the Light" is a song written and originally recorded by New Jersey based singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen. It was the first song on, and first single from, Springsteen's debut album Greetings from Asbury Park N.J. ....
" - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Manfred Mann

Manfred Mann are a United Kingdom Beat music, rhythm and blues and popular music band of the 1960s, named after their South African keyboard player and founder, who later led the successful 1970s follow-on group Manfred Mann's Earth Band....
 (1)

"New Kid In Town" - The Eagles (1)

"Love Theme From A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born (1976 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline....
(Evergreen)" - Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
 (3)

"Rich Girl
Rich Girl (Hall & Oates song)

"Rich Girl" is a song by Daryl Hall and John Oates. On March 26th, 1977, it became their first List of number-one hits on Billboard Hot 100 chart....
" - Hall & Oates
Hall & Oates

Hall & Oates are a pop music duet made up of Daryl Hall and John Oates.The act achieved its greatest celebrity in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s....
 (2)

"Dancing Queen" - ABBA
ABBA

ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
 (1)

"Don't Give Up On Us" - David Soul
David Soul

David Soul is an United States-born British actor and singer and best known for his role as the "seat-of-the-pants" California police Det. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson in the cult television program Starsky and Hutch ....
 (1)

"Don't Leave Me This Way" - Thelma Houston
Thelma Houston

Thelma Houston is an American singer-songwriter and actor. She scored a number-one hit in 1977 with her cover version of the song "Don't Leave Me This Way", which won the Grammy Awards of 1978 for Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance....
 (1)

"Southern Nights
Southern Nights (song)

"Southern Nights" is a song written by Allen Toussaint and most famously recorded by country-pop singer Glen Campbell. The song enjoyed immense popularity with both country and pop audiences when Campbell covered it in 1977....
" - Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning, and two time nominated Golden Globe Award United States country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor....
 (1)

"Hotel California" - The Eagles (1)

"When I Need You" - Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer

Leo Sayer is an England-born Australian people singer-songwriter and musician whose singing career has spanned four decades. A distinctive singer-songwriter, Sayer was a top single and album act on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in the 1970s....
 (1)

"Sir Duke" - Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
 (3)

"I'm Your Boogie Man" - KC & The Sunshine Band (1)

"Dreams
Dreams (Fleetwood Mac song)

"Dreams" is a song written by singer Stevie Nicks, for the group Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, Rumours. The song was the only U.S. number one hit for the group, and remains one of their best known songs....
" - Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
 (1)

"Got to Give It Up" - Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye

Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye was an United States singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range....
 (1)

"Gonna Fly Now (Theme From
Rocky
Rocky

Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. It tells the rags-to-riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa , an uneducated but good-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in Philadelphia....
) - Bill Conti
Bill Conti

Bill Conti is an Italian American film music composer who is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony....
 (1)

"Undercover Angel" - Alan O'Day
Alan O'Day

Alan O'Day is an United States singer-songwriter, best known for writing and singing "Undercover Angel ," a song which was number 1 in 1977. He also wrote songs for several other notable performers, such as 1974's Helen Reddy number 1 hit "Angie Baby" and the Righteous Brothers' number 3 hit "Rock And Roll Heaven"....
 (1)

"Da Do Ron Ron" - Shaun Cassidy
Shaun Cassidy

Shaun Cassidy is an United States actor, singer, writer, and Television producer. He is the eldest son of actress Shirley Jones, and the second son of actor Jack Cassidy....
 (1)

"Looks Like We Made It" - Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
 (1)

"I Just Want To Be Your Everything" - Andy Gibb
Andy Gibb

Andy Gibb was an England singer and teen idol, and the youngest brother of Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb, also known as the Bee Gees....
 (4)

"Best Of My Love" - The Emotions
The Emotions

The Emotions are an all female soul music, disco, and R&B singing group of the late-1970s and into the 1980s. The group was formed in their hometown of Chicago, Illinois in 1968, and originally consisted of the three Hutchinson sisters, all the children of Joseph and Lillian Hutchinson...
 (5)

"Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" - Meco
MECO

Meco may refer to:*Meco, a musician who released a very successful disco version of the Star Wars movie theme*Meco , a part of metropolitan Madrid, Spain....
 (2)

"You Light Up My Life" - Debby Boone
Debby Boone

Debby Boone is an United States singer and theater actor. She is best known for her 1977 hit "You Light Up My Life ", which spent 10 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and won her a Grammy award the following year for Best New Artist....
 (10), best selling single of the year

"How Deep Is Your Love" - Bee Gees
Bee Gees

The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers ? Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to England parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers....
 (2 weeks in 1977 + 1 week in 1978)


"When a Child is Born
When a Child Is Born

When a Child is Born is a song of 1976 by Johnny Mathis written by Fred Jay. The original melody was Soleado, a melody of 1974 by Ciro Dammico, alias Zacar, composer of the Italian group Daniel Santecruz Ensemble....
" - Johnny Mathis
Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis is an United States singer of popular music.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s....
 (1 week in 1976 + 2 weeks in 1977)

"Don't Give Up On Us
Don't Give Up on Us

Don't Give Up on Us is a romantic comedy film, made in the Philippines and directed by Joyce Bernal. The film was the fourth appearance of Judy Ann Santos and Piolo Pascual after Kahit Isang Saglit, Bakit 'Di Totohanin, and Till There Was You....
" - David Soul
David Soul

David Soul is an United States-born British actor and singer and best known for his role as the "seat-of-the-pants" California police Det. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson in the cult television program Starsky and Hutch ....
 (4)

"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" - Julie Covington
Julie Covington

Julie Covington is an English people singer and actress, best known for sound recording and reproduction the original version of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina"....
 (1)

"When I Need You
When I Need You

"When I Need You" is a popular song written by Albert Hammond and Carole Bayer Sager. It was first recorded by Hammond on his 1976 album When I Need You ....
" - Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer

Leo Sayer is an England-born Australian people singer-songwriter and musician whose singing career has spanned four decades. A distinctive singer-songwriter, Sayer was a top single and album act on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in the 1970s....
 (3)

"Chanson D'Amour
Chanson D'Amour

"Chanson D'Amour" is a popular song written by Wayne Shanklin.In 1958 in music, two competing versions of the song became popular. One was by Art and Dotty Todd....
" - The Manhattan Transfer
The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer is an United States vocal group. There have been two incarnations of the group, with Tim Hauser being the only member to feature in both....
 (3)

"Knowing Me, Knowing You
Knowing Me, Knowing You

"Knowing Me, Knowing You" is a hit single recorded by Sweden pop group ABBA. The song was written by Stig Anderson, Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus, with the lead vocal sung by Anni-Frid Lyngstad....
" - ABBA
ABBA

ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
 (5)

"Free
Free (Deniece Williams song)

"Free" is a popular song by Deniece Williams.Written by Williams, Hank Redd, Nathan Watts and Susaye Greene and produced by Maurice White and Charles Stepney, "Free" was Williams' breakthrough single....
" - Deniece Williams
Deniece Williams

Deniece "Niecy" Williams is a Grammy Awards of 1983-winning United States singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved success in the 1970s and 1980s....
 (2)

"I Don't Want to Talk About It
I Don't Want to Talk About It

"I Don't Want to Talk About It" is the name of a song written by Danny Whitten. Whitten's band, Crazy Horse released it as a track on their 1971 in music Crazy Horse ....
/The First Cut Is the Deepest
The First Cut Is the Deepest

"The First Cut Is the Deepest" is a 1967 song written and sung by Cat Stevens. It has become a hit single for four different artists: P.P. Arnold , Keith Hampshire , Rod Stewart and Sheryl Crow ....
" - Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart

Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
 (4)

"Lucille
Lucille (Kenny Rogers song)

"Lucille" is a popular song recorded by Kenny Rogers. Written by Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum and produced by Larry Butler, it tells the story of an unfaithful wife and mother....
" - Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
 (1)

"Show You the Way to Go
Show You the Way to Go

"Show You the Way to Go" was a song written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and released as a single in 1977 originally by The Jackson 5. It was the first number-one song for the group in Britain....
" - The Jacksons (1)

"So You Win Again
So You Win Again

"So You Win Again" was a popular single by Hot Chocolate .Songwriter by Russ Ballard and record producer by Mickie Most, it was the band's sole United Kingdom chart-topper single , spending three weeks at the top in July 1977....
" - Hot Chocolate (3)

"I Feel Love
I Feel Love

"I Feel Love" is a song by Donna Summer, taken from her 1977 concept album I Remember Yesterday. The song originally symbolised the 'future' segment of the album, which loosely depicted a musical trip through time....
" - Donna Summer
Donna Summer

Donna Summer is an United States singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music.Summer was trained as a gospel music singer prior to her introduction to the music industry....
 (4)

"Angelo
Angelo (song)

Angelo is a single by pop group Brotherhood of Man. It was a UK number one hit in 1977.Written by Tony Hiller, Lee Sheriden and Martin Lee and produced by Hiller, it was the band's second UK number one single , spending a single week at the top in August 1977....
" - Brotherhood of Man
Brotherhood of Man

Brotherhood of Man are a United Kingdom pop group who won the Eurovision Song Contest in Eurovision Song Contest 1976 with "Save Your Kisses for Me"....
 (1)

"Float On
Float On

"Float On" is a single released by indie rock Rock band Modest Mouse. It had also appeared on their album Good News for People Who Love Bad News....
" - Floaters (1)

"Way Down
Way Down

"Way Down" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley. Recorded in October 1976, it was the last Single released before his death on August 16, 1977. The song was written by Layng Martine, Jr....
" - Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
 (5)

"Silver Lady
Silver lady

Silver Lady could refer to:* the Spirit of Ecstasy, the hood ornament on a Rolls Royce car* Silver Lady , a song by David Soul...
" - David Soul
David Soul

David Soul is an United States-born British actor and singer and best known for his role as the "seat-of-the-pants" California police Det. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson in the cult television program Starsky and Hutch ....
 (3)

"Yes Sir I Can Boogie" - Baccara
Baccara

Baccara was a female vocal duo formed in 1977 by Spain flamenco artists Mayte Mateos and Mar?a Mendiola . The pair rapidly achieved international success with their debut single "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie", which reached Chart-topper across much of Europe....
 (1)

"The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game

"The Name of the Game" is a 1977 song by Sweden pop group ABBA, and was released as the first single from the group's album, The Album, their fifth for Polar Music and their fourth for Epic Records and Atlantic Records....
" - ABBA
ABBA

ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
 (4)

"Waterloo
Waterloo

Waterloo may mean:Battle*Battle of Waterloo, a battle fought at Waterloo, BelgiumPlacesAustralia*Waterloo, New South Wales...
" - ABBA
ABBA

ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
 (6)

"Mull Of Kintyre
Mull of Kintyre (song)

"Mull of Kintyre" is a popular 1977 song by former the Beatles Paul McCartney and his band Wings . The song was written by McCartney and bandmate Denny Laine in tribute to the picturesque Kintyre peninsula in Argyll & Bute, Scotland, where McCartney had owned a home and recording studio since the late 1960s....
/Girl's School" - Wings
Wings (band)

Wings was a rock music group formed in August 1971 by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. The group was the only "permanent" group that any of the former members of the Beatles joined after their break-up....
, (5 weeks in 1977 + 4 weeks in 1978), best selling single of the year


Other significant singles and major hits

  • "Alison
    Alison (song)

    "Alison" is the fifth track on Elvis Costello's first album, My Aim Is True, released in 1977. Because "Alison" was recorded before Elvis Costello and the Attractions formed, his backing band was Clover , which included Huey Lewis, who went on to later fame with Huey Lewis and the News....
    " - Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello

    Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
  • "All You Get from Love Is a Love Song
    All You Get from Love Is a Love Song

    "All You Get from Love Is a Love Song" is a song composed by Steve Eaton. It was popularized by the Carpenters in 1977. It was released to the public on May 2, 1977....
    " - The Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  • "American Girl
    American Girl (song)

    "American Girl" is the second single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . The single did not chart in the U.S., but in the UK it peaked at #40 the week ending August 27, 1977....
    " - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

    This article is about the Rock band. For information on the eponymous debut album see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is an United States Rock music band, formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench and known for hit singles such as "American Girl ", "Breakdown " and "Mary Jane's Last Da...
  • "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" - Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello

    Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
  • "Another Star" - Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • "April Sun in Cuba" - Dragon
    Dragon (band)

    Dragon is a popular New Zealand/Australian rock band, they were formed in Auckland, New Zealand in January 1972 and relocated to Sydney, Australia in May 1975....
  • "As" - Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • "Back Together Again" - Hall & Oates
    Hall & Oates

    Hall & Oates are a pop music duet made up of Daryl Hall and John Oates.The act achieved its greatest celebrity in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s....
  • "Barracuda
    Barracuda (song)

    "Barracuda" is a song written and recorded by the rock band Heart . It was released as the first single from the band's third album Little Queen ....
    " - Heart
    Heart (band)

    Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
  • "Black Betty
    Black Betty

    "Black Betty" is a 20th century African-American work song often credited to Lead Belly as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him....
    " - Ram Jam
    Ram Jam

    Ram Jam was an United States 1970s rock music band, best known for their 1977 Top 20 chart-topper "Black Betty".The band members were Bill Bartlett , Pete Charles , Myke Scavone , and Howie Arthur Blauvelt ....
  • "Blue Bayou
    Blue Bayou

    "Blue Bayou" is the title of a song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson and sung by Orbison. The best known version remains Linda Ronstadt's 1977 cover, which was a top-ten pop, country and easy listening single in the U.S.; the song was included on Ronstadt's Triple-Platinum-Plus Simple Dreams album....
    " - Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt

    Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
  • "Brick House
    Brick House (song)

    "Brick House" is a funk/disco song from Commodores' 1977 in music album Commodores and is one of their most popular songs. It peaked at #5 in the U.S....
    " - The Commodores
    Commodores

    The Commodores are an United States funk/soul music band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as freshmen at Tuskegee Institute in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on concert tour....
  • "California" - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
    Manfred Mann's Earth Band

    Manfred Mann's Earth Band is a jazz/rock group formed by Manfred Mann , in 1971 in music....
  • "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
    Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

    "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" is a song by Klaatu , originally released in 1976. The following year, The Carpenters covered the song, using a crew of 160 musicians....
    " - The Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  • "Cat Scratch Fever
    Cat Scratch Fever (song)

    "Cat Scratch Fever" is a rock music song by Ted Nugent that appears on the Cat Scratch Fever. The song is well known for its signature riff, which is a 3-tone "blues scale" melody harmonized in parallel fourths....
    " - Ted Nugent
    Ted Nugent

    Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an United States hard rock guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes....
  • "The Chain
    The Chain

    "The Chain" is a song from Fleetwood Mac's best-selling album Rumours. "The Chain" is unique in being the only song credited to all five members of the Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac lineup: Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks; this is partly due to the fact that John McVie and Mick Fleetwood are...
    " - Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  • "Christine Sixteen
    Christine Sixteen

    "Christine Sixteen" is a song by the United States hard rock band Kiss . The song originally appeared on their 1977 in music album Love Gun....
    " - Kiss
    KISS (band)

    Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
  • "Cold as Ice
    Cold as Ice (Foreigner song)

    "Cold as Ice" is the title of a 1977 song by Rock music band Foreigner from their self-titled album Foreigner . It reached number 6 in the US charts....
    " - Foreigner
    Foreigner (band)

    Foreigner is a Rock music band formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald , along with then-unknown vocalist Lou Gramm ....
  • "Complete Control
    Complete Control

    "Complete Control" is a song by The Clash, released as a Single and featured on the United States release of their The Clash #The US version.The song is often cited as one of punk's greatest singles, and is a fiery polemic on record companies, managers and the state of punk music itself, the motivation for the song being the band's label releas...
    " - The Clash
    The Clash

    The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
  • "Coyote
    Coyote (song)

    "Coyote" is the opening song from Joni Mitchell's 1976 album Hejira and also the first single.The song constituted a major departure from her previous work The Hissing of Summer Lawns, which had been quite ornate with pianos, layered vocals and percussion ....
    " - Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
  • "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)
    Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)

    "Dance, Dance, Dance " is a 1977 disco song recorded by Chic . It was the group's first hit, reaching #6 on both the pop and R&B charts.The "yowsah, yowsah, yowsah" of the title, which appears as a spoken interjection in the middle of the song, is a quotation from They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, a 1969 film about a Great Depression-era...
    " - Chic
    Chic (band)

    Chic is an United States disco and R&B band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bass guitar Bernard Edwards. It is best-known for its commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance " , "Everybody Dance" , "Le Freak" , "I Want Your Love " , "Good Times " , and "My Forbidden Lover" ....
  • "Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in its Spotlight)" - Thin Lizzy
    Thin Lizzy

    Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Republic of Ireland in 1969. The band were led throughout their recording career by Bass guitar, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott, and are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak " and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major international hits still played regula...
  • "Daybreak
    Daybreak (Barry Manilow song)

    "Daybreak" is a pop song performed by Barry Manilow in 1977. It was composed by Manilow and Adrienne Anderson.The single version was recorded live with the female backup group Lady Flash, reaching #23 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the Adult Contemporary chart....
    " - Barry Manilow
    Barry Manilow

    Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
  • "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
    Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (song)

    "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It is the first track of their Australian album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap , released in September 1976, and was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott....
    " - AC/DC
    AC/DC

    AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
  • "Disco Inferno
    Disco Inferno (The Trammps song)

    "Disco Inferno" is a song by The Trammps from the Disco Inferno . It was also notably covered by Cyndi Lauper on the A Night at the Roxbury soundtrack and Tina Turner on the What's Love Got To Do With It? soundtrack....
    " - The Trammps
    The Trammps

    The Trammps, based in Philadelphia, were one of the first disco band . The band's first major success was with 1972's Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart....
  • "Do Ya
    Do Ya

    "Do Ya" is a song written by Jeff Lynne and recorded by The Move, that became a hit for the Electric Light Orchestra in 1976....
    " - Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra

    Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
  • "Don't Believe a Word" - Thin Lizzy
    Thin Lizzy

    Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Republic of Ireland in 1969. The band were led throughout their recording career by Bass guitar, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott, and are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak " and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major international hits still played regula...
  • "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
    Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

    "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" is a popular country music song by Crystal Gayle written by Richard Leigh .The song became a worldwide hit single and in the United States hit #1 on the country charts and #2 on the pop charts....
    " - Crystal Gayle
    Crystal Gayle

    Crystal Gayle is an United States country music singer best known for a series of country-pop crossover hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the Grammy Award-winning, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." She accumulated 18 No....
  • "Don't Stop
    Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac song)

    "Don't Stop" is a song by the rock group Fleetwood Mac, written by vocalist and Keyboard instrument player Christine McVie. Sung by McVie and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, it was the third single from the band's 1977 hit album Rumours, and is one of the band's most enduring hits, peaking at number three on the Billboard singles chart....
    " - Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  • "Down to Zero" - Joan Armatrading
    Joan Armatrading

    Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, Order of the British Empire, is a United Kingdom singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee ....
  • "Dreamboat Annie
    Dreamboat Annie (song)

    "Dreamboat Annie" is a song written and recorded by the rock band Heart . It is the title track from their debut album Dreamboat Annie and was released as its third single in 1976....
    " - Heart
    Heart (band)

    Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
  • "Dreams
    Dreams (Fleetwood Mac song)

    "Dreams" is a song written by singer Stevie Nicks, for the group Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, Rumours. The song was the only U.S. number one hit for the group, and remains one of their best known songs....
    " - Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  • "Egyptian Reggae" - Jonathan Richman
    Jonathan Richman

    Jonathan Richman is an United States singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970 he founded The Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band, but since the mid-1970s has worked either solo or with low-key, generally acoustic backing....
     and the Modern Lovers
  • "Exodus
    Exodus

    Exodus is the second book of the Jewish Torah and of the Christian Old Testament. It tells how Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt and through the wilderness to the Mountain of God Sinai....
    " - Bob Marley & The Wailers
    Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Bob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created in 1974 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers ....
  • "Fanfare for the Common Man
    Fanfare for the Common Man

    Fanfare for the Common Man is a work by List of American composers Aaron Copland, and one of the most recognizable pieces of 20th century American classical music....
    " - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
    Emerson, Lake & Palmer

    Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an England progressive rock Supergroup . In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts....
  • "Father Christmas
    Father Christmas (song)

    "Father Christmas" is a 1977 single by English group The Kinks. While it failed to chart upon release, it has grown in popularity and is a Christmas staple on some radio stations....
    " - The Kinks
    The Kinks

    The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
  • "Feel the Need in Me" - The Detroit Emeralds
  • "Feels Like the First Time
    Feels Like the First Time

    "Feels Like the First Time" is a popular song recorded by the rock band Foreigner . Released in 1977 from the band's Foreigner , Foreigner , and it was their first single....
    " - Foreigner
    Foreigner (band)

    Foreigner is a Rock music band formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald , along with then-unknown vocalist Lou Gramm ....
  • "Foreplay/Long Time
    Foreplay/Long Time

    "Foreplay/Long Time" is a song by the rock music Boston , released on the band's Boston , and as their second single , on Epic Records in 1976. It combines an instrumental introduction, "Foreplay," to the main song "Long Time," generally played as one on the radio and listed as one track on the album....
    " - Boston
    Boston (band)

    Boston is an United States Rock music band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists....
  • "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)" - The Stranglers
    The Stranglers

    The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
  • "Give a Little Bit
    Give A Little Bit

    "Give a Little Bit" is the opening song on Supertramp's 1977 in music progressive rock album Even in the Quietest Moments.... The song was released as a Single that same year and became an international hit for the band, peaking at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100....
    " - Supertramp
    Supertramp

    Supertramp were a United Kingdom progressive rock band that released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s.Their early music included ambitious concept albums, but they are best known for their later hits including "Bloody Well Right", "Dreamer ", "Goodbye Stranger", "Give a Little Bit" and "The Logical Song"....
  • "Go Your Own Way" - Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  • "God Save the Queen
    God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols song)

    "God Save the Queen" was the second single released by the punk rock band Sex Pistols. It was released during Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977....
    " - Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols

    The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
  • "Going for the One" - Yes
    Yes (band)

    Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
  • "Hard Luck Woman
    Hard Luck Woman

    "Hard Luck Woman" is a song by the United States hard rock band Kiss and the lead single from their 1976 album, Rock and Roll Over. The song was originally written by Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley as a possible track for Rod Stewart, but when Stewart showed no interest in singing it, Kiss decided to keep it for themselves....
    " - Kiss
    KISS (band)

    Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
  • "Heaven on the Seventh Floor" - Paul Nicholas
    Paul Nicholas

    Paul Nicholas is an England actor and singer who has had considerable success on theatre, film and in the pop music music chart.Nicholas's father Oscar Beuselinck was a highly esteemed entertainment lawyer....
  • "Heroes" - David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
  • "Holidays in the Sun
    Holidays in the Sun

    "Holidays in the Sun" was the fourth single by the British punk rock band Sex Pistols. It was released on October 14, 1977, and proved to be the last single from the group as a whole for 30 years ....
    " - Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols

    The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
  • "I Want You to Want Me
    I Want You to Want Me

    "I Want You to Want Me" is a song by Cheap Trick which first appeared on their second album In Color in 1977. It was the first single released from that album but it didn't chart in the US....
    " - Cheap Trick
    Cheap Trick

    Cheap Trick is a United States Rock music band formed in the 1970s and consisting of Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E. Carlos ....
  • "In the City" - The Jam
    The Jam

    The Jam were an English Rock music band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore neatly tailored suits rather than ripped clothes and incorporated a number of mainstream 1960s rock influences rather than rejecting them, placing...
  • "Isn't She Lovely
    Isn't She Lovely

    "Isn't She Lovely" is a song by Stevie Wonder, from his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life. In it he celebrates the birth of his daughter, Aisha....
    " - Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • "It's So Easy" - Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt

    Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
  • "Jamming/Punky Reggae Party" - Bob Marley & The Wailers
    Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Bob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created in 1974 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers ....
  • "Jet Airliner
    Jet Airliner (song)

    "Jet Airliner" is a song composed by Paul Pena and popularized by the Steve Miller Band.Pena wrote and recorded the song in 1973 in music for his New Train album; however, due to conflicts between Pena and his label, New Train sat unreleased until 2000 in music....
    " - Steve Miller Band
    Steve Miller Band

    Steve Miller Band is an American rock music band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals....
  • "Juke Box Music" - The Kinks
    The Kinks

    The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
  • "Kill the King" - Rainbow
    Rainbow (band)

    Rainbow were a hard rock and Heavy metal music band formed by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in 1975 in music. In addition to Blackmore, the band originally consisted of former Elf members; lead singer Ronnie James Dio , keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, bassist Craig Gruber, and drummer Gary Driscoll....
  • "Lay Down Sally
    Lay Down Sally

    "Lay Down Sally" is a single by Eric Clapton. It appeared on his November 1977 album Slowhand, and reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
    " - Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
  • "Let There Be Rock
    Let There Be Rock (song)

    "Let There Be Rock" is a song by Australia hard rock band AC/DC. It is the third and title track of their Australian album Let There Be Rock , released in March 1977 in music, and was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott....
    " - AC/DC
    AC/DC

    AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
  • "Lido Shuffle" - Boz Scaggs
    Boz Scaggs

    Boz Scaggs is an United States singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 Hits in the United States along with the #2 album Silk Degrees....
  • "Life in the Fast Lane
    Life in the Fast Lane

    "Life in the Fast Lane" is a song written by Joe Walsh, Glenn Frey and Don Henley and recorded by the American rock band Eagles for their 1976 studio album Hotel California....
    " - The Eagles
  • "Like a Hurricane
    Like a Hurricane (Neil Young song)

    "Like a Hurricane" is a song written by Neil Young in 1975 and first released on the album American Stars 'N Bars in 1977 in music....
    " - Neil Young
    Neil Young

    Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
  • "Lonely Boy
    Lonely Boy (Andrew Gold song)

    "Lonely Boy" is a song written and recorded by Andrew Gold in 1976 in music for his album What's Wrong with This Picture? . The song features backing vocals provided by Linda Ronstadt ....
    " - Andrew Gold
    Andrew Gold

    Andrew Maurice Gold is an United States singer, musician and songwriter, best known in his homeland for his 1977 Top 40 single "Lonely Boy " and the 1978 single "Thank You for Being a Friend." His best known solo single in the United Kingdom is "Never Let Her Slip Away", which reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart in 1978....
  • "Lookin' After Number One" - The Boomtown Rats
    The Boomtown Rats

    The Boomtown Rats were an Republic of Ireland rock music musical ensemble, that scored a series of United Kingdom hit record between 1977 and 1980, and were led by singing Bob Geldof, who organized the Ethiopian famine relief efforts, Band Aid and Live Aid....
  • "Love Is the Answer" - Utopia
  • "Lovely Day
    Lovely Day (song)

    "Lovely Day" is the title of a popular song from 1977 by the United States soul music / R&B singer Bill Withers. The song was written by Withers and Skip Scarborough and appears on Withers' 1978 album Menagerie....
    " - Bill Withers
    Bill Withers

    Bill Withers is an United States singer-songwriter and hall-of-fame songwriter who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Some of his best-known songs are "Ain't No Sunshine," "Use Me ," "Lovely Day ," "Lean on Me ", "Grandma's Hands", and "Just the Two of Us "....
  • "Magazine Madonna" - Sherbet
    Sherbet

    Sherbet is a traditional cold drink prepared with rose hips, Cornelian cherry, rose or licorice and a variety of spices. In the gardens of Ottoman Palace, spices and fruits to be used in sherbet were grown under the control of pharmacists and doctors of the Palace....
  • "Magic Fly" - Space
    Space (band)

    Space were an indie rock band from Liverpool, England, who came to prominence in the mid-1990s with hit singles such as "Female of the Species", "Neighbourhood " and "Avenging Angels "....
  • "Mannequin" - Wire
    Wire (band)

    Wire are an English rock music band formed in London in October 1976, by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed .c) Despite little attention in the beginning, Wire's first three albums are among the most influential on the postpunk era, cited by Michael Stipe of R.E.M....
  • "Marquee Moon
    Marquee Moon (song)

    Marquee Moon is the title track from Television 's first album, Marquee Moon. It was written by Tom Verlaine....
    " - Television
    Television (band)

    Television, formed in New York City in 1973, is an United States rock music band. Although Television never had more than a cult audience in their American homeland, they achieved significant commercial success in Europe and today are widely regarded as one of the key founders of punk rock....
  • "Mary of the Fourth Form" - The Boomtown Rats
    The Boomtown Rats

    The Boomtown Rats were an Republic of Ireland rock music musical ensemble, that scored a series of United Kingdom hit record between 1977 and 1980, and were led by singing Bob Geldof, who organized the Ethiopian famine relief efforts, Band Aid and Live Aid....
  • "Modern Love" - Peter Gabriel
    Peter Gabriel

    Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
  • "Motorhead
    Motorhead (Motörhead song)

    "Motorhead" was recorded and released by Mot?rhead as a 7" vinyl single in June 1977, initially issued with the 'Map Of Chiswick' label, later it was switched to the 'Big Beat' label and pressed in other formats....
    " - Motörhead
    Motörhead

    Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
  • "My Heart Belongs to Me
    My Heart Belongs to Me

    "My Heart Belongs to Me" is a popular song from 1977 . It was originally performed by the songwriter, Alan Gordon , but the more famous version of the song was recorded by the United States singer and actress Barbra Streisand....
    " - Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  • "Native New Yorker
    Native New Yorker (song)

    "Native New Yorker" is a song written by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell.It was a 1977 hit single for the dance band Odyssey , reaching #5 on the UK charts and #21 on the U.S....
    " - Odyssey
    Odyssey (band)

    Odyssey was a New York City based dance music musical ensemble. It grew out of the talent of the Virgin Islands born Lopez sibling: Lillian Lopez , Louise Lopez , and Carmen Lopez who later dropped out of the group....
  • "Neat Neat Neat
    Neat Neat Neat

    Neat Neat Neat was the second single by The Damned, released simultaneously with their debut album Damned Damned Damned.The single was reissued in Stiff's mail order Damned 4 Pack mail-order set....
    " - The Damned
    The Damned

    The Damned are an English Rock music band formed in London in 1976. They are notable for being the first punk rock band from England to release a single , an album , and to tour the United States....
  • "No More Heroes" - The Stranglers
    The Stranglers

    The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
  • "Nobody Does It Better
    Nobody Does It Better

    "Nobody Does It Better" is a power ballad composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager. It was recorded by Carly Simon as the theme song for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me ....
    " - Carly Simon
    Carly Simon

    Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
  • "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" - X-Ray Spex
    X-Ray Spex

    X-Ray Spex are an England punk rock band from London that formed in 1976.During their first incarnation , X-Ray Spex were ?deliberate underachievers? and only managed to release five singles plus one album....
  • "On the Border" - Al Stewart
    Al Stewart

    Al Stewart is a United Kingdom singer-songwriter and folk rock musician.He is best known for his 1976 single "Year of the Cat " and its 1978 follow-up "Time Passages " , although albums such as Past, Present and Future [1973] and Modern Times [1975] are seen as more representative of Stewart's talent as a historical wordsmith and Lyrical...
  • "Peace of Mind
    Peace of Mind (Boston song)

    "Peace of Mind" is a song by Boston , from their Boston and released as the third single on Epic Records, peaking at #38 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977.....
    " - Boston
    Boston (band)

    Boston is an United States Rock music band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists....
  • "Peaches/Go Buddy Go" - The Stranglers
    The Stranglers

    The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
  • "Peg
    Peg (song)

    "Peg" is a song by rock group Steely Dan, which was released as a single from their 1977 album Aja .The guitar solo on the track was attempted by seven top session guitarists before Jay Graydon's version became the "keeper"....
    " - Steely Dan
    Steely Dan

    Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
  • "Phoenix" - Wishbone Ash
    Wishbone Ash

    Wishbone Ash are a United Kingdom Rock music band who achieved success in the early and mid-1970s with their distinctive mellow sound, and popular records including Wishbone Ash , Argus , There's the Rub and New England ....
  • "The Pink Parker (EP)" - Graham Parker
    Graham Parker

    Graham Parker is a United Kingdom Rock and roll singer and songwriter....
     and The Rumour
    The Rumour

    The Rumour were a rock band in the late 70's and early 80's. Members came from veteran pub rock bands Brinsley Schwarz and Bontemps Roulez. They are best known as the backup band for Graham Parker, although they also backed Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, and Garland Jeffreys on the tour for his Escape Artist album....
  • "Pourin' It All Out" - Graham Parker
    Graham Parker

    Graham Parker is a United Kingdom Rock and roll singer and songwriter....
     and The Rumour
    The Rumour

    The Rumour were a rock band in the late 70's and early 80's. Members came from veteran pub rock bands Brinsley Schwarz and Bontemps Roulez. They are best known as the backup band for Graham Parker, although they also backed Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, and Garland Jeffreys on the tour for his Escape Artist album....
  • "Pretty Vacant
    Pretty Vacant

    "Pretty Vacant" was the third single released by the punk rock band Sex Pistols. This ode to apathy was released on 1 July 1977. The song marked the band's only appearance on the British music show Top of the Pops....
    " - Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols

    The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
  • "Psycho Killer
    Psycho Killer

    "Psycho Killer" is a song by Talking Heads from their 1977 album Talking Heads: 77, written by David Byrne , Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth....
    " - Talking Heads
    Talking Heads

    Talking Heads was an American rock music rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison....
  • "Really Free" - John Otway
    John Otway

    John Otway, is a singer-songwriter, who built a large cult audience through unrelenting touring, a surreal humour sense of humour and a winning underdog persona....
     and Wild Willy Barrett
    Wild Willy Barrett

    Wild Willy Barrett is an England folk music best known for his collaborations with John Otway. His musical style is witty and his humour onstage is dry....
  • "Right Time of the Night
    Right Time of the Night

    "Right Time of the Night" is the title of a popular song by the United States singer Jennifer Warnes. The song was written by singer-songwriter Peter McCann and appears on Warnes' 1976 self-titled debut album....
    " - Jennifer Warnes
    Jennifer Warnes

    Jennifer Jean Warnes is an United States singer and songwriter. She is best known for her rich alto voice, her interpretations of work by James Taylor, Leonard Cohen, and Buffy Sainte Marie, and for her association with the soundtracks of a number of popular films during the 1970s, '80s and '90s....
  • "Road Runner
    Roadrunner (Jonathan Richman song)

    "Roadrunner" is a song written by Jonathan Richman and recorded in various versions by Richman and his band, in most cases credited as The Modern Lovers....
    " - Jonathan Richman
    Jonathan Richman

    Jonathan Richman is an United States singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970 he founded The Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band, but since the mid-1970s has worked either solo or with low-key, generally acoustic backing....
     and the Modern Lovers
  • "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" - Bob Seger
    Bob Seger

    Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band....
     and the Silver Bullet Band
  • "Rock Bottom" - Lynsey De Paul
    Lynsey De Paul

    Lynsey de Paul is an England singer-songwriter....
     and Mike Moran
  • "Rockaria!
    Rockaria!

    "Rockaria!" is a song by Electric Light OrchestraThis was the third track on the band's successful 1976 album A New World Record, and as the second single from the album, released in the UK in 1977....
    " - Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra

    Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
  • "Rockin' All Over the World
    Rockin' All Over the World (song)

    "Rockin' All Over the World" is a Rock music song by John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival. It made its debut on Fogerty's second solo album in 1975....
    " - Status Quo
    Status Quo

    Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
  • "Rose of Cimarron (EP)" - Poco
    Poco

    Poco is an United States country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968....
  • "Runaway
    Runaway (Del Shannon song)

    "Runaway" was a number one Billboard Hot 100 song in the spring of 1961 in music by Del Shannon. It was written by Shannon and keyboardist Max Crook, and became a major international hit....
    " - Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt

    Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
  • "Sam" - Olivia Newton-John
    Olivia Newton-John

    Olivia Newton-John Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is an England, Australian singer and actor. She is an avid activist for both environmentalism issues and breast cancer awareness....
  • "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" - Ian Dury
    Ian Dury

    Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk rock and New Wave music era of rock music....
  • "She's Not There
    She's Not There

    "She's Not There" was the debut single by the Great Britain pop music band , The Zombies. It reached number twelve in the UK Singles Chart in August 1964., number two in the Billboard Hot 100 , and #2 in Canada....
    " - Santana
    Santana (band)

    Santana is a flexible number of musicians accompanying Carlos Santana since the late 1960s. Just like Santana himself, the band is known for helping make Latin rock famous in the rest of the world....
  • "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
    Sheena is a Punk Rocker

    "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" is a song by the punk rock group Ramones. It first appeared on their third LP, Rocket to Russia, in 1977, and was also included on later pressings of the group's second album, Leave Home....
    " - The Ramones
  • "Short People
    Short People

    "Short People" is a song by Randy Newman from his 1977 album Little Criminals. The lyrics describe the many deficiencies that supposedly are exhibited by the short individuals, as demonstrated by the line They got little hands and little eyes and they walk around tellin' great big lies. It uses this bigoted description of short peopl...
    " - Randy Newman
    Randy Newman

    Randall Stuart ?Randy? Newman is an Academy Award?winning United States singer/songwriter, arrangement, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his wiktionary:mordant pop songs and for his many film scores....
  • "Sleepwalker" - The Kinks
    The Kinks

    The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
  • "Solsbury Hill
    Solsbury Hill (song)

    "Solsbury Hill" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel, about a spiritual experience atop Solsbury Hill in Somerset, England. Gabriel wrote the song after his departure from the progressive rock band Genesis , of which he had been the lead singer since its inception, explaining the reasons behind his departure....
    " - Peter Gabriel
    Peter Gabriel

    Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
  • "Something Better Change/Straighten Out" - The Stranglers
    The Stranglers

    The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
  • "So Into You" - Atlanta Rhythm Section
    Atlanta Rhythm Section

    Atlanta Rhythm Section, sometimes abbreviated ARS, is an United States southern rock band . The band unofficially formed in 1970 in music as former members of the Candymen and the Classics IV became the session band for the newly opened Studio One in Doraville, Georgia , near Atlanta....
  • "Sound and Vision
    Sound and Vision

    "Sound and Vision" is a song and single by David Bowie.The song is notable for juxtaposing an uplifting, triumphant country guitar and synthesizer-led instrumental track with Bowie?s withdrawn lyrics....
    " - David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
  • "Spanish Stroll" - Mink DeVille
    Mink DeVille

    Mink DeVille was a Rock music known for its association with early punk rock bands at New York City?s CBGB nightclub and for being a showcase for the music of Willy DeVille....
  • "Sweet Gene Vincent
    Sweet Gene Vincent

    "Sweet Gene Vincent" is a song and single by Ian Dury. Taken from his first solo album New Boots and Panties!! it was his second solo single and third solo release and is a tribute to Rock 'n' Roll singer Gene Vincent....
    " - Ian Dury
    Ian Dury

    Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk rock and New Wave music era of rock music....
  • "Swingtown" - Steve Miller Band
    Steve Miller Band

    Steve Miller Band is an American rock music band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals....
  • "Telephone Line" - Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra

    Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
  • "This Is Tomorrow" - Bryan Ferry
    Bryan Ferry

    Bryan Ferry is an English singer, musician, songwriter and occasional actor famed for his suave visual and vocal style. Ferry came to public prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter for Roxy Music, which enjoyed a highly successful career with three albums and ten single s entering the Top 40 charts in the United Ki...
  • "Tie Your Mother Down
    Tie Your Mother Down

    "Tie Your Mother Down" is a riff-driven rock song by Queen , written by guitarist Brian May and featuring one of rock music's most recognizable Riff....
    " - Queen
    Queen (band)

    Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
  • "Tryin' to Love Two
    Tryin' to Love Two

    "Tryin' to Love Two" was a hit song by R&B singer William Bell in 1977. Releasd from his album, Comin' Back for More, it would become his biggest hit, reaching number one on the R&B charts and crossing over to the pop charts, reaching number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100....
    " - William Bell
    William Bell

    William Bell may refer to:* William Bell , Bishop of St Andrews* William Bell * William Bell * William Bell * Dr. William Bell , founder of Manitou Springs, Colorado...
  • "2-4-6-8 Motorway" - Tom Robinson Band
    Tom Robinson Band

    Tom Robinson Band were a British rock band, established in 1976 by singer, songwriter and bassist Tom Robinson . Their third single, "Up Against the Wall", is now acknowledged as a classic punk rock single and their debut album, Power In The Darkness , is still widely admired ...
  • "Tulane" - Steve Gibbons Band
    Steve Gibbons Band

    Steve Gibbons is a rock vocalist, from Birmingham, England....
  • "Uptown Top Ranking" - Althea & Donna
    Althea & Donna

    Althea & Donna is a Jamaican reggae singing duet ....
  • "Walk This Way
    Walk This Way

    "Walk This Way" is a song by United States hard rock rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry . It was originally released as the second single from their 1975 album Toys in the Attic ....
    " - Aerosmith
    Aerosmith

    Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
  • "Waiting in Vain
    Waiting in Vain

    "Waiting in Vain" is a song written and recorded by reggae musician Bob Marley for his 1977 album Exodus . Released as a single, it hit number twenty-seven in the UK Singles Chart....
    " - Bob Marley & The Wailers
    Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Bob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created in 1974 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers ....
  • "Watching the Detectives
    Watching the Detectives (song)

    "Watching the Detectives" is a 1977 in music Single by England singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, featured on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at #354....
    " - Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello

    Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
  • "We Are the Champions
    We Are the Champions

    "We Are the Champions" is a power ballad written by Freddie Mercury, recorded and performed by Queen for their 1977 album News of the World ....
    " - Queen
    Queen (band)

    Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
  • "We're All Alone
    We're All Alone

    "We're All Alone" is a popular song written and originally recorded in 1976 by Boz Scaggs, as the closing track on his breakthrough album, Silk Degrees....
    " - Rita Coolidge
    Rita Coolidge

    Rita Coolidge is a Grammy Award winning United States singing. She is of Cherokee Native Americans in the United States and Scotland descent....
  • "What Can I Say" - Boz Scaggs
    Boz Scaggs

    Boz Scaggs is an United States singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 Hits in the United States along with the #2 album Silk Degrees....
  • "What's Your Name" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
  • "White Punks on Dope" - The Tubes
    The Tubes

    The Tubes are a San Francisco, California-based Rock music musical ensemble, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope"....
  • "White Riot
    White Riot

    "White Riot" was the first Single put out by seminal Punk rock Band The Clash, in 1977. The song is featured on their The Clash . It exists in two versions: the original on the United Kingdom version of the album, and the second on the "White Riot" single and United States version of the album released in the States two years later in 1979...
    " - The Clash
    The Clash

    The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
  • "(I'd Go The) Whole Wide World
    (I'd Go The) Whole Wide World

    " Whole Wide World" is a song written by England rock and roll singer-songwriter Eric Goulden, better known as Wreckless Eric. Goulden wrote the song in May 1974 while an original member of the Stiff Records label along with Ian Dury, Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe....
    " - Wreckless Eric
    Wreckless Eric

    Wreckless Eric is a rock and roll / New wave music singer-songwriter best known for his 1978 single " Whole Wide World" on Stiff Records. More than two decades after its release, the song was included in Mojo magazine?s list of the best punk rock singles of all time....
  • "Willow" - Joan Armatrading
    Joan Armatrading

    Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, Order of the British Empire, is a United Kingdom singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee ....
  • "Wondrous Stories" - Yes
    Yes (band)

    Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
  • "Year of the Cat
    Year of the Cat (song)

    Year of the Cat is a song by United Kingdom singer-songwriter Al Stewart. It is the title track of the album Year of the Cat, which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London in January 1976 by engineer Alan Parsons, and released in July 1976....
    " - Al Stewart
    Al Stewart

    Al Stewart is a United Kingdom singer-songwriter and folk rock musician.He is best known for his 1976 single "Year of the Cat " and its 1978 follow-up "Time Passages " , although albums such as Past, Present and Future [1973] and Modern Times [1975] are seen as more representative of Stewart's talent as a historical wordsmith and Lyrical...
  • "You Make Loving Fun
    You Make Loving Fun

    "You Make Loving Fun" is a song written by Christine McVie. Fleetwood Mac, of which McVie was a member, released it as the fourth and final single from their 1977 album Rumours....
    " - Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  • "You're In My Heart
    You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)

    "You're in My Heart " is the name of a song written and recorded by Rod Stewart for his 1977 in music album Foot Loose & Fancy Free. The song proved a popular single, reaching the top ten of many national charts, including #4 on the U.S....
    " - Rod Stewart
    Rod Stewart

    Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
  • "You're My World
    You're My World

    "You're My World" is a song composed and originally recorded by the Italian singer-songwriter Umberto Bindi. Originally titled "Il Mio Mondo" in Italian, it was released as a single in 1963 and became a smash hit throughout Italy....
    " - Helen Reddy
    Helen Reddy

    Helen Reddy is an Australian/American singer-songwriter. She has won a Grammy Award, been a theatrical stage performer appearing on Broadway theatre, an actress in feature films and credited with writing and singing one of the most iconic and culturally significant songs of the 1970s, "I Am Woman"....
  • "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher
    (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

    " Higher and Higher" is a song performed by American R&B artist Jackie Wilson, from his 1967 album of the same name. It was written by Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner and Carl Smith , and produced by Carl Davis....
    " - Rita Coolidge
    Rita Coolidge

    Rita Coolidge is a Grammy Award winning United States singing. She is of Cherokee Native Americans in the United States and Scotland descent....
  • "Your Song
    Your Song

    "Your Song" is a ballad composed and performed by musician Elton John. The song's lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin. It appeared on John's Elton John in 1970....
    " - Billy Paul
    Billy Paul

    Billy Paul is a Grammy Awards of 1973#R.26B winning United States soul music singer, most known for his 1972 chart topper single , "Me and Mrs....


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  • "After The Lovin'" w. Richie Adams m. Alan Bernstein
  • "Annie" w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

    Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
     from the musical
    Annie
  • "Brazzle Dazzle Day" w.m. Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn, from the film Pete's Dragon
    Pete's Dragon

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  • "But The World Goes 'Round" w. Fred Ebb
    Fred Ebb

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     m. John Kander
    John Kander

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    . Introduced by Liza Minnelli
    Liza Minnelli

    Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
     in the film
    New York, New York
  • "Candle on the Water" w.m. Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn, from the film Pete's Dragon
    Pete's Dragon

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  • "Child In A Universe" w.m. Laura Nyro
    Laura Nyro

    Laura Nyro was an United States composer, lyricist, singer and pianist. Her style was a distinctive hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, mixed with elements of jazz, gospel music, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock music....
  • "Come In From The Rain"     w.m. Melissa Manchester & Carole Bayer Sager
    Carole Bayer Sager

    Carole Bayer Sager is an United States lyricist, songwriter and singer.Born in New York City, Sager co-wrote her first pop music hit, A Groovy Kind of Love, with Toni Wine, while a student at the Fiorello H....
  • "Easy Street" w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

    Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
     from the musical
    Annie
  • "The Greatest Love of All"     w. Linda Creed m. Michael Masser
  • "Happy Endings" w. Fred Ebb
    Fred Ebb

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     m. John Kander
    John Kander

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    . Introduced by Liza Minnelli
    Liza Minnelli

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    , Larry Kert
    Larry Kert

    Larry Kert was an United States actor, singer, and dancer....
     and chorus in the film
    New York, New York
  • "Here You Come Again"     w.m. Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
  • "I Don't Need Anything But You" w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

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     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

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     from the musical
    Annie
  • "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here" w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

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     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

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     from the musical
    Annie
  • "It's Not Easy" w.m. Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn, from the film Pete's Dragon
    Pete's Dragon

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  • "It's The Hard-Knock Life" w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

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     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

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     from the musical
    Annie
  • "Just the Way You Are" w.m. Billy Joel
    Billy Joel

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  • "Little Girls" w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

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     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

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     from the musical
    Annie
  • "The Love Boat
    The Love Boat

    The Love Boat is an United States television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the American Broadcasting Company from 1977 in television until 1986 in television....
    theme song" w.m. Norman Gimbel & Paul Williams
    Paul Williams (songwriter)

    Paul Hamilton Williams is an United States musician, music composer, songwriter and actor....
  • "Love Is In The Air"     w.m. George Young & Harry Vanda
  • "Maybe" w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

    Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
     from the musical
    Annie
  • "Maybe I'm Amazed" w.m. Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  • "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" w.m. Billy Joel
    Billy Joel

    William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
  • "N. Y. C." w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

    Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
     from the musical
    Annie
  • "A New Deal For Christmas" w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

    Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
     from the musical
    Annie
  • "New York, New York"     w.m. Fred Ebb
    Fred Ebb

    Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
     & John Kander
    John Kander

    John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
    . Introduced by Liza Minnelli
    Liza Minnelli

    Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
     in the film
    New York, New York
  • "Nobody Does It Better"     w. Carole Bayer Sager
    Carole Bayer Sager

    Carole Bayer Sager is an United States lyricist, songwriter and singer.Born in New York City, Sager co-wrote her first pop music hit, A Groovy Kind of Love, with Toni Wine, while a student at the Fiorello H....
     m. Marvin Hamlisch
    Marvin Hamlisch

    Marvin Frederick Hamlisch is an American composer. He with Richard Rodgers are the only two individuals to have been awarded an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama....
  • "She's Always A Woman" w.m. Billy Joel
    Billy Joel

    William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
  • "Someone's Waiting for You
    Someone's Waiting for You

    Someone's Waiting for You is a song from Walt Disney Productions' 1977 animated musical film film, The Rescuers. It was sung by Shelby Flint and was written and composed by the song-writing team of Carol Connors , Sammy Fain and Ayn Robbins....
    "      w. Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins m. Sammy Fain
    Sammy Fain

    Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music....
     from the film
    The Rescuers
    The Rescuers

    The Rescuers is a 1977 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. The twenty-third film in the Disney animated features canon, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization, headquartered in New York City and shadowing the United Nations, dedicated to helping a...
  • "Something Was Missing" w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

    Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
     from the musical
    Annie
  • "Star Wars-Main Theme" m. John Williams from the Star Wars
    Star Wars

    Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
    films
  • "Stayin' Alive"     w.m. Barry Gibb
    Barry Gibb

    Barry Alan Crompton Gibb Order of the British Empire is a singer, songwriter and producer. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, to English parents....
    , Maurice Gibb
    Maurice Gibb

    Maurice Ernest Gibb Order of the British Empire was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, Isle of Man, the twin brother of Robin Gibb, and younger brother to Barry Gibb....
     & Robin Gibb
    Robin Gibb

    Robin Hugh Gibb Order of the British Empire is a singer and songwriter. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, to English parents, the twin brother of Maurice Gibb , and younger brother to Barry Gibb....
  • "Thank You For The Music"     w.m. Benny Andersson
    Benny Andersson

    G?ran Bror Benny Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musical theaters Chess , Kristina fr?n Duvem?la, and Mamma Mia!....
     & Björn Ulvaeus
    Björn Ulvaeus

    Bj?rn Kristian Ulvaeus, , is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musical theaters Chess , Kristina fr?n Duvem?la, and Mamma Mia!....
  • "There Goes The Ball Game" w. Fred Ebb
    Fred Ebb

    Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
     m. John Kander
    John Kander

    John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
    . Introduced by Liza Minnelli
    Liza Minnelli

    Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
     in the film
    New York, New York
  • "Tomorrow"     w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

    Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
    , from the musical
    Annie
  • "We'd Like To Thank You, Herbert Hoover" w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

    Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
     from the musical
    Annie
  • "You Won't Be An Orphan For Long" w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

    Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
     from the musical
    Annie
  • "You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile"     w. Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

    Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
    , from the musical
    Annie


Punk rock

Main article: Punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
.
Perhaps most important is the beginning of what has become known as the punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 explosion. 1977 was the year of formation of The Avengers
The Avengers (band)

The Avengers were an American rock music rock band in the List of musicians in the first wave of punk music of American punk rock, formed in 1977 in San Francisco, California....
, Bad Brains
Bad Brains

Bad Brains are an American hardcore punk/roots reggae band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1977. They are widely regarded as being among the pioneers of the genre, though the band's members objected to the term "hardcore" to describe their music....
, Black Flag
Black Flag (band)

Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes....
, Crass
Crass

Crass were an English punk band, formed in 1977, which promoted anarchism as a political ideology, lifestylism, and as a resistance movement. Crass popularized the seminal anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture, and advocated direct action, animal rights, and environmentalism....
, Discharge
Discharge (band)

Discharge is a United Kingdom hardcore punk band formed in 1977 by Terry "Tezz" Roberts and Roy "Rainy" Wainwright. They are often considered among one of the very first bands to play hardcore punk, and mixing punk with metal....
, Fear
Fear (band)

Fear is an American punk band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 1977 and is still a band today. Credited for helping to shape the sound and style of American hardcore punk, the band started out as part of the early California punk rock scene, and gained national prominence after an infamous 1981 performance on Saturday Night Live....
, The Flesh Eaters, The Germs
The Germs

The Germs are an influential American punk band from Los Angeles, California, originally active from 1977 to 1980 and reformed in 2005. Their 1977 single , "Forming"/"Sexboy", is generally regarded as the first punk record from Los Angeles....
, The Misfits, 999
999 (band)

999 are an English rock music rock band who formed in London in 1977. They are often cited as one of the first punk rock bands.Between 1978 and 1981, they had five Top 75 single in the UK Singles Chart but only one made it to the Top 40....
, The Pagans
The Pagans

The Pagans were an early American rock music rock band band from Cleveland, Ohio that was originally active from 1977 in music to 1979 in music before briefly reforming in 1982 in music and disbanding the following year....
, Plasmatics, VOM
VOM (punk rock band)

VOM was conceived in 1976, a self-described beat combo featuring the renowned writer and critic Richard Meltzer on vocals, with Gregg Turner on 2nd vocals and "Metal" Mike Saunders on drums under the pseudonym "Ted Klusewksi"....
, The Weirdos
The Weirdos

The Weirdos were an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. They formed in 1977 and broke up in 1981, were occasionally active in the 1980s, and recorded new material in the 1990s....
, and X.

1977 also saw the release of several pivotal albums in the development of punk music. Widely-acknowledged as masterpieces and among the earliest first full-length purely punk albums,
The Clash
The Clash (album)

The Clash is the first album-length recording released by the England punk rock band The Clash. It was released in two different versions, both of which are still in print: the original version in 1977 and the revised U.S....
by The Clash
The Clash

The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
, The Damned
The Damned

The Damned are an English Rock music band formed in London in 1976. They are notable for being the first punk rock band from England to release a single , an album , and to tour the United States....
's
Damned, Damned, Damned
Damned, Damned, Damned

Damned Damned Damned was also a side project by Casey Chaos, that changed its name to The Other DamnedDamned Damned Damned is the debut album by British punk rock band the Damned, released on 18 February 1977....
, the Dead Boys' Young, Loud and Snotty
Young, Loud and Snotty

Young Loud and Snotty is the debut studio album of the American punk band Dead Boys. It was recorded and released in 1977 on Sire Records, with Genya Ravan serving as producer....
, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers' L.A.M.F.
L.A.M.F.

L.A.M.F. is the only studio album by the American band Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, which included such musicians as Walter Lure, Billy Rath, and Johnny Thunders' New York Dolls bandmate Jerry Nolan....
, The Jam
The Jam

The Jam were an English Rock music band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore neatly tailored suits rather than ripped clothes and incorporated a number of mainstream 1960s rock influences rather than rejecting them, placing...
's
In the City
In the City (album)

In the City was the debut album of British mod revival/punk rock band The Jam. It was released in 1977 in music by Polydor Records and featured the hit single and title track "In the City "....
, the Ramones' Rocket to Russia
Rocket to Russia

Rocket to Russia is the third album by American Punk rock group the Ramones, their last with original drummer Tommy Ramone. Released on November 4 1977, the album incorporates surf rock and other influences....
, Richard Hell & the Voidoids' Blank Generation, the Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
'
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols is the first and only studio album recorded by the Sex Pistols, a highly influential and controversial England punk rock band....
, Television
Television (band)

Television, formed in New York City in 1973, is an United States rock music band. Although Television never had more than a cult audience in their American homeland, they achieved significant commercial success in Europe and today are widely regarded as one of the key founders of punk rock....
's
Marquee Moon
Marquee Moon

Marquee Moon is Television 's 1977 debut album . It was re-released September 23, 2003....
, and Wire
Wire (band)

Wire are an English rock music band formed in London in October 1976, by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed .c) Despite little attention in the beginning, Wire's first three albums are among the most influential on the postpunk era, cited by Michael Stipe of R.E.M....
's
Pink Flag
Pink Flag

Pink Flag is the first album by the band Wire , released in 1977. Upon its release, Robert Christgau called it a "punk suite" and praised its "simultaneous rawness and detachment" and detected a rock-and-roll irony similar to but "much grimmer and more frightening" than the Ramones....
are usually considered their respective masterpieces, and kick-started punk music as the musical genre it eventually became. The year also saw the release of debut albums by bands often associated with, if not defined as, punk, such as Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
's
My Aim Is True
My Aim Is True

My Aim Is True is the debut album by Elvis Costello.The album was recorded at Pathway Studios in Islington, London, over the course of 1976 during late-night studio sessions, in a total of twenty-four hours....
, Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop, born James Newell ?sterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947, is an American Rock music singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream success, Iggy Pop is considered an innovator of punk rock, garage rock, and other related rock music....
's
Lust for Life
Lust for Life (album)

Lust for Life is a 1977 album by Iggy Pop, his second solo release and his second collaboration with David Bowie, following The Idiot earlier in the year....
, Motörhead
Motörhead

Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
's Motörhead
Motörhead (album)

Mot?rhead is the debut album by the Great Britain Heavy metal music band Mot?rhead....
, Suicide
Suicide

Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest"....
's Suicide
Suicide (album)

Suicide is the influential first studio album by United States No Wave band Suicide , released in 1977. It is often cited as the first synth pop album, but is more intense than most albums of the genre....
, and Talking Heads
Talking Heads

Talking Heads was an American rock music rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison....
' Talking Heads: 77
Talking Heads: 77

Talking Heads: 77 is the debut album by Talking Heads. It peaked at #97 in the Billboard Music Charts Pop Albums chart, and the single "Psycho Killer" made #92....


Classical music

  • Enrique Crespo
    Enrique Crespo

    Enrique Crespo is a trombone and founding member of the German Brass ensemble.He studied music and architecture in Montevideo and in Buenos Aires....
     -
    American Suite No. 1
  • George Crumb
    George Crumb

    George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
     -
    Star-Child (1977, revised 1979) for soprano, antiphonal children's voices, male speaking choir, bell ringers, and large orchestra
  • Bengt Hambraeus
    Bengt Hambraeus

    Bengt Hambraeus was a Swedish organist, composer and musicologist....
     -
    Antiphonie: Cathedral Music for Organ
  • Arvo Pärt
    Arvo Pärt

    Arvo P?rt , is an Estonian classical composer. P?rt works in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabulation and hypnotic repetitions influenced by the intellectual counterpoint elements of European jazz, but fitting into European-American classical post-modernism rather than so-called world music....
     -
    Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
    Benjamin Britten

    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
  • Toru Takemitsu
    Toru Takemitsu

    was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Though largely self-taught, Takemitsu is recognised for his skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre, drawing from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom la...
    • A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
    • Water-ways for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, two harps and two vibraphones
  • Alexander Vustin
    Alexander Vustin

    Alexander Kuzmich Vustin, also Voustin or Wustin is a Russian composer....
     -
    In Memory of Boris Klyuzner
  • Isang Yun
    Isang Yun

    Isang Yun was a Korean-Germany composer originally from Korea. According to his official publisher's Boosey & Hawkes biography of him, he was given a political asylum by West Germany, eventually becoming a Naturalization German citizen, following his abduction and torture in the 60s by the South Korean secret service and having been sentence...
     -
    Concerto for Flute and Small Orchestra


Opera

  • Julian Livingston - Twist of Treason
  • Thea Musgrave
    Thea Musgrave

    Thea Musgrave is a Scottish people-born, United States-based composer of opera and classical music....
     -
    Mary, Queen of Scots
  • Donald Sosin - Esther


Musical theatre

  • The Act
    The Act

    The Act was a popular and critically acclaimed Norwegian rock band in the mid 1980s. They toured extensively and released the album September Field....
         Broadway production
  • Annie (Martin Charnin
    Martin Charnin

    Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
     and Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
    ) - Broadway production
  • I Love My Wife
    I Love My Wife

    I Love My Wife is a musical theatre with a book and lyrics by Michael Stewart and music by Cy Coleman.A satire of the sexual revolution of the 1970s, it unfolds on Christmas Eve in suburban Trenton, New Jersey, where two married couples who have been close friends since high school find themselves contemplating a m?nage-?-quatre....
         Broadway production opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
    Ethel Barrymore Theatre

    The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 243 West 47th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J....
     on April 17 and ran for 857 performances
  • I Love My Wife
    I Love My Wife

    I Love My Wife is a musical theatre with a book and lyrics by Michael Stewart and music by Cy Coleman.A satire of the sexual revolution of the 1970s, it unfolds on Christmas Eve in suburban Trenton, New Jersey, where two married couples who have been close friends since high school find themselves contemplating a m?nage-?-quatre....
    London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre
    Prince of Wales Theatre

    The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre on Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937, and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner....
     on October 6 and ran for 401 performances
  • The King and I
    The King and I

    The King and I is a musical theatre by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon....
    (Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
     & Hammerstein
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
    ) - Broadway revival
  • Privates on Parade
    Privates on Parade

    Privates on Parade: A Play with Songs in Two Acts is a 1977 farce by English playwright Peter Nichols....
    London production opened at the Aldwych Theatre
    Aldwych Theatre

    The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Aldwych in the City of Westminster. The theatre was listed building on 20 July 1971 Its seating capacity is 1,200....
     on February 17 and ran for 208 performances
  • Side by Side by Sondheim
    Side By Side By Sondheim

    Side by Side by Sondheim is a musical theatre revue featuring the songs of prolific Broadway theatre and film composer Stephen Sondheim. Its title is derived from a tune in Company ....
         Broadway production
  • Oliver!
    Oliver!

    Oliver! is a United Kingdom Musical theater, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is loosely based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
    (Lionel Bart
    Lionel Bart

    Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music & lyrics for Oliver!...
    ) - London revival


Musical films

  • A Little Night Music
    A Little Night Music

    A Little Night Music is a Musical theater with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples, with the music set almost entirely in waltz time....
  • New York, New York released on June 21 starring Liza Minnelli
    Liza Minnelli

    Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
     and Robert De Niro
    Robert De Niro

    Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
  • Pete's Dragon
    Pete's Dragon

    Pete's Dragon is a live-action/animated film musical film feature film from Walt Disney Productions. It is a live-action film but its title character, a european dragon named Elliott, is animation....
  • Saturday Night Fever
    Saturday Night Fever

    Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 in film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a local discoth?que....


Births

  • January 28 - Tweety, Next
    Next (band)

    Next is an United States r&b musical group, popular during the late 1990s. They are best known for their hit single, "Too Close".History...
  • January 28 - Joey Fatone
    Joey Fatone

    Joseph Anthony "Joey" Fatone, Jr. is an United States singer, actor and television personality. He is best known as a member of the United States pop music group, 'N Sync, in which he sang baritone....
    , *NSYNC
  • February 2 - Shakira
    Shakira

    Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll known simply as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist who emerged as a Prodigy in the music scene of Latin America in the mid-1990s....
    , singer
  • February 8
    • Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell
      Dave Farrell

      David Michael Farrell is the bass guitarist of the band from Linkin Park.He is an United States musician, and multi-instrumentalist....
      , Linkin Park
      Linkin Park

      Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
    • Nadia Turner
      Nadia Turner

      Nadia Turner is an United States singer, songwriter, actress and radio/television personality, best known as the 8th place finalist on the American Idol of American Idol....
  • February 11 - Mike Shinoda
    Mike Shinoda

    Michael Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist from Agoura Hills, California. His father is a Japanese American, while his mother is of European and Indigenous peoples of the Americas descent....
    , Linkin Park
    Linkin Park

    Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
    , Fort Minor
    Fort Minor

    Fort Minor is the hip hop music side project of Mike Shinoda, vocalist of the rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda's first solo album as Fort Minor, The Rising Tied, was released in 2005 with the singles "Where'd You Go" featuring Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga and "Remember the Name" featuring Styles of Beyond....
  • February 15 - Brooks Wackerman
    Brooks Wackerman

    Brooks Wackerman is the current drummer for the United States hardcore punk band Bad Religion and the younger brother of Chad Wackerman . He played under the direction of his father Chuck Wackerman in the Los Alamitos High School Jazz Band from 1991 to 1995 and also in middle school....
    , Bad Religion
    Bad Religion

    Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
  • March 2 - Chris Martin
    Chris Martin

    Christopher Anthony John Martin is an England singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, best known for his work as lead vocalist of the band Coldplay....
    , Coldplay
    Coldplay

    Coldplay are a United Kingdom alternative rock Musical ensemble formed in London, England in 1998. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Will Champion....
  • March 3 - Ronan Keating
    Ronan Keating

    Ronan Keating is an Republic of Ireland Pop music singer who has had hits with boyband Boyzone and as a solo artist....
    , Boyzone
    Boyzone

    Boyzone are an Irish people boy band who had popular mainstream success during the 1990s. They were most successful in the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom and they also had differing levels of success in parts of Central Europe....
  • March 6 - Bubba Sparxxx
    Bubba Sparxxx

    Warren Anderson Mathis , known by his stage name Bubba Sparxxx, is an American Southern rapping. His most notable hit is "Ms. New Booty" featuring The Ying Yang Twins which peaked at #7 in the United States....
    , rapper
  • March 7 - Paul Cattermole
    Paul Cattermole

    Paul Gerald Cattermole is an England musician from St Albans, Hertfordshire. He was previously a member of the successful pop group S Club and was the lead singer of the band Skua and latterly Charlie Bullitt until he left in October 2005....
    , S Club 7
    S Club 7

    S Club, formerly known as S Club 7, was a pop band created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, comprising lead singer Jo O'Meara, Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Jon Lee , Bradley McIntosh, Hannah Spearritt, and Rachel Stevens....
  • March 15 - Joseph Hahn, Linkin Park
    Linkin Park

    Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
  • March 18 - Devin Lima, LFO
    LFO

    LFO may refer to:* Low frequency oscillation, audio technique used in the production of electronic music* The London Festival Orchestra, a performing orchestra formed in the 1950s...
  • April 9 - Gerard Way
    Gerard Way

    Gerard Arthur Way is an United States musician and comic book writer who has served as lead vocalist and co-founder of the band My Chemical Romance since its formation in 2001....
    , My Chemical Romance
    My Chemical Romance

    My Chemical Romance is an American rock band formed in 2001 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The band consists of five members that are Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Bob Bryar....
  • May 1 - Dan Regan
    Dan Regan

    Dan Regan also known as, "The Culprit" or "Black Casper" is the trombone player for the Southern California-based ska punk band Reel Big Fish....
    , Reel Big Fish
    Reel Big Fish

    Reel Big Fish is an United States ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out ." The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the Third wave ska with the release of the album Turn the Radio Off....
  • May 31 - Scott Klopfenstein
    Scott Klopfenstein

    Scott "Scotty" A. Klopfenstein is an American musician most notably as a long-time member of Reel Big Fish. He plays trumpet, guitar, keyboard, and sings....
    , Reel Big Fish
    Reel Big Fish

    Reel Big Fish is an United States ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out ." The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the Third wave ska with the release of the album Turn the Radio Off....
  • June 3 - Yuri Ruley
    Yuri Ruley

    Yuri Zane Ruley is an United States drummer, playing in the punk rock band MxPx.In 1992, while still in high school, Ruley started MxPx with Mike Herrera and Andy Husted; Husted was replaced by Tom Wisniewski two years later....
    , MxPx
    MxPx

    MxPx is a pop punk band that officially formed in Bremerton, Washington, Washington, United States as teenagers. The band has recorded eight studio albums, four Extended play, four compilation albums, a live album, a VHS tape, a DVD and released 20 singles....
  • June 12 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
    Kenny Wayne Shepherd

    Kenny Wayne Shepherd is an United States blues guitarist, singer and songwriter....
    , guitarist
  • July 14 - Gordon Cree
    Gordon Cree

    Gordon Cree is a Scotland Arrangement, Orchestration, Conducting and composer....
    , composer
  • July 15 - Ray Toro, My Chemical Romance
    My Chemical Romance

    My Chemical Romance is an American rock band formed in 2001 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The band consists of five members that are Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Bob Bryar....
  • July 18 - Tony Fagenson
    Tony Fagenson

    Tony Fagenson is the drummer for Rock music band Eve 6 before it disbanded in 2004. He was attending the University of Southern California and was a List of notable members of Lambda Chi Alpha when he auditioned with Eve 6....
    , Eve 6
    Eve 6

    Eve 6 is a rock band from Southern California who was most well known for their hit "Inside Out " and the slow anthem "Here's to the Night ". They disbanded in 2004 and reunited with two of the three original members in October 2007....
  • July 28
    • Coby Dick, Papa Roach
      Papa Roach

      Papa Roach is a four-piece alternative rock band from Vacaville, California. They broke into the mainstream with their three times platinum major-label debut album Infest ....
    • Mark Stoermer, The Killers
      The Killers (band)

      The Killers are an American alternative rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2002. The group consists of Brandon Flowers , Dave Keuning , Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci Jr....
  • July 29 - Danger Mouse
    Danger Mouse

    Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an United States artist and record producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album, which combined a cappellas from Jay-Z's The Black Album with instrumentals from the album The Beatles ....
    , Gnarls Barkley
    Gnarls Barkley

    Gnarls Barkley is a Grammy award winning United States musical collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and record producer Danger Mouse from New York, and rapper/lead singer Cee-Lo Green , from Atlanta....
  • August 10 - Aaron Kamin
    Aaron Kamin

    Aaron Kamin is an United States guitarist and songwriter. He is a founding member of the band The Calling.Kamin, the son of an Lawyer and a teacher, attended high school in the San Fernando Valley....
    , The Calling
    The Calling

    The Calling is a rock band from Los Angeles, California, California. The band was formed by Alex Band and Aaron Kamin when Kamin was dating Band's sister....
  • August 17 - Claire Richards
    Claire Richards

    Claire Ann Richards is an England singer best known for her membership of the popular music quintet, Steps ....
    , Steps
  • August 31 - Craig Nicholls
    Craig Nicholls

    Craig Robert Nicholls, is the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the rock group The Vines....
    , The Vines
    The Vines

    The Vines are an Australian Garage rock#Revival band notable for producing a musical hybrid of '60s rock and '90s alternative music. Since 2006 their line-up has consisted of vocalist and lead guitarist Craig Nicholls, rhythm guitarist Ryan Griffiths , bassist Brad Heald and drummer Hamish Rosser....
  • September 4 - Ian Grushka, New Found Glory
    New Found Glory

    New Found Glory is an United States pop punk band hailing from South Florida, now based in Los Angeles. The band consists of Jordan Pundik , Chad Gilbert , Steve Klein , Ian Grushka and Cyrus Bolooki ....
  • September 11
    • Jon Buckland, Coldplay
      Coldplay

      Coldplay are a United Kingdom alternative rock Musical ensemble formed in London, England in 1998. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Will Champion....
    • Ludacris
      Ludacris

      Christopher Bridges , better known by his stage name Ludacris, Grammy Award-winning American rapping. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings....
  • September 13 - Fiona Apple
    Fiona Apple

    Fiona Apple is a Grammy Awards of 1998 United States singer-songwriter. She gained popularity through her 1996 studio album Tidal , especially with the single "Criminal ", and because of the music video made for it....
    , singer-songwriter
  • October 2 - Jeremiah Rangel
    Jeremiah Rangel

    Jeremiah William Rangel was the lead guitarist and occasional lead singer of the pop punk band Mest until their breakup in February 2006.Jeremiah first played guitar for Mest on the album Mo' Money Mo 40'z, though a few songs still feature Steve Lovato on guitar....
    , Mest
    Mest

    Mest is a pop punk band from Blue Island, Illinois. The band's lineup, prior to their breakup in 2006, consisted of vocalist and guitarist Tony Lovato, guitarist Jeremiah Rangel, bassist Matt Lovato, and drummer Nick Gigler....
  • October 13 - Justin Peroff
    Justin Peroff

    Justin Peter Papadimitriou , family name changed to Peroff, is best known as the drummer for the Toronto based indie rock collective Broken Social Scene....
    , Broken Social Scene
    Broken Social Scene

    Broken Social Scene are a Juno Award winning Canada indie rock band, a musical collective currently including nineteen members, formed in 1999 in music by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning....
  • October 16
    • John Mayer, musician
    • Chris Knapp
      Chris Knapp

      Christopher "Kid" Keith Knapp was born in March 28th, 1978 in Los Gatos California. Knapp attended Los Gatos High School, class of 1997.He was the drummer of the United States Rock group The Ataris....
      , The Ataris
      The Ataris

      The Ataris is a pop punk band originally hailing from Anderson, Indiana, Indiana. They have released five studio albums, and their most recent, Welcome the Night, was released on February 20, 2007....
    • Joanne Yeoh
      Joanne Yeoh

      Joanne Yeoh is a Malaysian violinist who has performed worldwide. In 2004, she was selected as the honoree for The Outstanding Young Malaysian Award for the category, "Personal Improvement and Accomplishment"....
      , violinist
  • October 17 - Nicole Cabell
    Nicole Cabell

    Nicole Cabell is an American opera singer. She is presently best known as the 2005 winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition....
    , operatic soprano
  • November 15 - Logan Whitehurst
    Logan Whitehurst

    Logan Whitehurst , was an United States musician. His career began as the drummer for the band Little Tin Frog from 1995 until 2000, although he is best known as a founding member of Californian indie rock band The Velvet Teen and as a solo artist performing under the name Logan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club....
    , one man band


Deaths

  • January 1 - Michael Mann, violinist, son of Thomas Mann
  • January 21 - Errol Garner, jazz pianist
  • January 23 - Dick Burnett
    Dick Burnett (musician)

    Richard Burnett was an American folk music songwriter from Kentucky.Burnett was born near Monticello, Kentucky. He was known to play the fiddle and was blind in one eye....
    , folk songwriter, 94
  • February 8 - Eivind Groven
    Eivind Groven

    Eivind Groven was a Norway microtonal composer and music-theorist. He was from the fylke of Telemark in southern Norway and had his background in the folk music of the area....
    , microtonal composer and music theorist
  • February 10 - Grace Williams
    Grace Williams

    Grace Mary Williams was a Wales composer....
    , composer
  • February 12 - Ernst Mehlich
    Ernst Mehlich

    Ernst Mehlich was a German-Brazilian orchestra conductor and composer. In Brazil he was known as Ernesto Mehlich.In January 1927 he became Director of the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, first as Head of the City Musical Department, and from December on as General Music Director....
    , German-Brazilian conductor and composer
  • February 26 - Bukka White
    Bukka White

    Bukka White was a delta blues guitarist and singer. "Bukka" was not a nickname, but a misspelling of White's Given name by his second record label, ....
    , blues guitarist and singer
  • February 28 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comic actor and singer
  • May 22 - Hampton Hawes
    Hampton Hawes

    Hampton Hawes was an African American jazz pianist....
    , jazz pianist
  • May 30 - Paul Desmond
    Paul Desmond

    Paul Desmond , born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophone and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five"....
    , jazz saxophonist
  • June 13 - Matthew Garber
    Matthew Garber

    Matthew Adam Garber was an English people actor best known for his role as Michael Banks in Walt Disney Pictures Mary Poppins . Born in Stepney, London to parents who had both performed on stage, he attended St....
    , former child star of
    Mary Poppins, 21 (pancreatitis)
  • July 26 - Gena Branscombe, composer and conductor
  • August 16 - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
    , singer, 42 (Combined Drug Intoxication
    Combined Drug Intoxication

    Combined Drug Intoxication or CDI, also known as Multiple Drug Intake , is an Unnatural death cause of human death. While it is sometimes reported as a simple "drug overdose", it is distinct in that it is due to the simultaneous use of multiple drugs, whether the drugs are Prescription drug, Over-the-counter drug, Recreational dru...
    )
  • August 19 - Groucho Marx
    Groucho Marx

    Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx , was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho....
    , comedian, actor, singer and performer
  • September 5 - George Barnes
    George Barnes (musician)

    George Barnes was a world-renowned swing music jazz guitarist, who claimed he played the first electric guitar in 1931, preceding Charlie Christian by six years....
    , swing jazz guitarist
  • September 13 - Leopold Stokowski
    Leopold Stokowski

    Leopold Stokowski was a famous orchestral conducting, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted....
    , conductor
  • September 16
    • Marc Bolan
      Marc Bolan

      Marc Bolan , was an England singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T.Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era, though he preferred to call his music Cosmic Rock, and made him one of the most recognisable stars in United Kingdom music....
      , singer-songwriter, 29 (car crash)
    • Maria Callas
      Maria Callas

      Maria Callas was an American-born Greeks soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the twentieth century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique with great dramatic gifts....
      , operatic soprano, 53 (heart attack)
  • September 30 - Mary Ford
    Mary Ford

    Mary Ford , vocalist and guitarist, was one-half of the popular husband-and-wife musical team, Les Paul and Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits; in 1951 alone, they sold six million records....
    , guitarist and vocalist, 53 (diabetes-related)
  • October 13 - Shirley Brickley
    Shirley Brickley

    Shirley Brickley was the lead singer of the R&B group the Orlons. Brickley suffered a gunshot wound and died in 1977, at age 32....
    , the Orlons
    The Orlons

    The Orlons were an Rhythm and blues musical ensemble from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that formed in 1960....
    , 32 (shot)
  • October 14 - Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
    , singer and actor
  • October 20 - Ronnie Van Zant
    Ronnie Van Zant

    Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Van Zant was the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of 38 Special founder and vocalist Donnie Van Zant and current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant....
    , Steve Gaines
    Steve Gaines

    Steven Earl Gaines was an United States musician. He is most well-known as a guitarist and songwriter for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd....
    , and Cassie Gaines
    Cassie Gaines

    Cassie LaRue Gaines was an United States singer. She was a member of female gospel music vocal trio The Honkettes, who in 1975 became the backup singers for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd....
    , members of Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
     (Plane crash)
  • November 5 - Guy Lombardo
    Guy Lombardo

    Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo was a Canadian bandleader and violinist.Forming The Royal Canadians in 1924 with his brothers Carmen Lombardo, Lebert Lombardo, and Victor Lombardo and other musicians from his hometown, Lombardo led the group to international success, billing themselves as creating "The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven."...
    , violinist and bandleader
  • November 9 - Panagiotis Kapodistrias, actor, script writer
  • November 14 - Richard Addinsell
    Richard Addinsell

    Richard Stewart Addinsell was a British people composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the film Dangerous Moonlight ....
    ,
    Warsaw Concerto composer
  • December 5 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
    Rahsaan Roland Kirk

    Rahsaan Roland Kirk was an United States jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute and many other instruments. He was perhaps best known for his vitality on stage, where virtuoso improvisation was accompanied by comic banter, political ranting and his famous ability to play a number of instruments simultaneously....
    , jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer
  • December 25 - Charlie Chaplin
    Charlie Chaplin

    Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
    , actor and composer
  • December 28 - Sam Brown
    Sam Brown (guitarist)

    Sam T. Brown was a jazz guitarist. He was unusual in that he performed in a generally jazz-rock format, while performing in Keith Jarrett's ensembles that sometimes veered close to a free jazz style....
    , jazz guitarist
  • December 30 - St. Louis Jimmy Oden
    St. Louis Jimmy Oden

    James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden , was an United States blues singer and songwriter.Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, Jimmy Oden sang and taught himself to play the piano in childhood....
    , blues singer
  • date unknown - Jimmy Cooper
    Jimmy Cooper (musician)

    Jimmy Cooper was a hammered dulcimer player from Scotland.Jimmy was born in Coatbridge, Scotland, near Glasgow. He started to play the dulcimer around age twelve, and gained a lot of experience by playing in dance halls and busking in the early 1920s....
    , hammered dulcimer player


Awards


Grammy Awards

  • Grammy Awards of 1977
    Grammy Awards of 1977

    The 19th Grammy Awards were held on February 19, 1977, and were broadcast live on American television . They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1976....


Country Music Association Awards


Eurovision Song Contest

  • Eurovision Song Contest 1977
    Eurovision Song Contest 1977

    The Eurovision Song Contest 1977 was the 22nd edition series, and was held on May 7, 1977 in London. With Angela Rippon as the presenter, the contest was won by Marie Myriam who represented France, with her song L'oiseau et l'enfant....