Green River

The third studio album by American rock and roll band Creedence Clearwater Revival

Forty Licks

A double compilation album by The Rolling Stones.

Elvis

The second number one album of Elvis Presley

Abbey Road

Album by The Beatles, which is named after their studio.

Dark Side of the Moon

Studio album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd

1970's

For the better part of the 1970s, the disco genre of music ruled both the airwaves and the dance halls. The genre first made its mark in the mid 70s with Van McCoy's "The Hustle" toping music charts for a record period. Disco Divas like the Anita Ward, Gloria Gaynor, and Donna Summer also worked hard to put the genre in its rightful place. While the said divas did their part in North America, Dalida popularized the genre in Europe. Even the movies played their part in ensuring that the genre became a hit. For instance, the film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta and featuring music of the band The Bee Gees played an excellent role. The movie's sound track, by The Bee Gees, became a hotcake for the longest period ever up until 1983 before it was beaten by Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Just like fashion, the disco genre eventually fell out favor. New genres came up and occupied the rank held for so long and dearly by the disco. Among the new genres that would eventually rise to popularity in the 1970s include, but are not restricted to, rock, R&B and Urban, and country.

Rock, before all others, reared its head first, but this was not going to be homogenous. The genre was subdivided into a number of other subgenres, which consist of hard rock, psychedelic rock, and arena rock. Bands like Alice Cooper and Deep Purple that started their popularity campaign by 1972 featured prominently in hard rock subgenre. Other hard-rock bands that made their debut in the 1970s include the Kiss, Aerosmith and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Bands like the Styx or better known as "Come Sail Away" featured prominently under the genre Arena Rock music. Psychedelic rock, however, never rose to popularity perhaps due to deaths of rockstars Jim Morrison and Jimmi Hendrix and the breakup of the UK rock band, the Beatles. Today many young children learn how to play music with songs of the Beatles.

RnB and Urban, a genre associated with "wah wah" pedals and heavy bass is yet another genre that those who were lucky to have been born by the 1970s can identify with. Like the rock genre, R&B and Urban did feature bands. This includes Sly and The Family Stone, the Meters, the Ohio Players, The Commodores, Kool and the Gang and the Zapp. Individual artists who promoted the genre include Stevie Wonder and James Brown. It can also be noted that the Jackson 5, pop music phenomenal band, also made a mark in the 1970s.

Now let's turn to yet another genre whose presence is still felt to date, country music. This genre, like most others, has never been uniform. Instead, the genre is made up of variations which include "outlaw country" and country pop. It must also be noted here that country music became an instant hit in the UK, but received a lukewarm reception in North America, and particularly in the United States.

"Outlaw rock", on one hand, is essentially a blend of rock and blues music was first introduced into the scene by artists like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings among others.