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Wed 9 April 2025 12:00, UK
The 1970s was a chaotic time for music, and how beautifully that chaos chimed every single chance that it got. When we look at the ‘60s, we are greeted by bands such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, two outfits who were a huge influence when it came to showing bands how to market themselves and highlighting what could work in a developing music industry. However, the ‘70s was a lot different than that.
While the ‘60s might have been a very innovative time, there wasn’t a great deal of experimentation. A lot of the biggest acts in the world were all rockstars, and that was the genre of music which was championed the most. Rock was still excitingly evolving in the ‘70s, but alongside that, you had genres such as funk, soul and disco all rising to the top, and with that came a great deal of new music.
A lot of this music went on to define its very own musical movement. There are now a number of genres and styles of music that can be directly attributed to innovative artists from the ‘70s, such as Boston, Queen and Sly Stone. It’s always exciting listening back to this music in a bid to pinpoint how it impacted the way people made music from that point on.
These are some of the songs from the ‘70s, which were years ahead of their time and inspired brand-new musical movements.
1970s songs that were years ahead of their time
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