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Continuity Bands in the 1970s
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husband, London, disco, Scholz, Johnston, Martin, natural, women, Brian, Francisco, jazzy, friendliness, MIT, Foreigner, punk, commercially, Frampton, Foreplay, Perry, 1970s, Devil, sensitivity, Blue, Boston, 1980
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bands from who continued what they were doing in the first half of            also in the second half
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The Rolling Stones
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1976 Black and         
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"Fools Cry"
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1978 Some Girls
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"Beast of Burden"
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"Miss You"
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became a            song
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1980 Emotional Rescue
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they outlasted disco and         
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The Beatles' members
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Paul McCartney
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by far the most                          successful
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Paul McCartney and Wings
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1974 Band on the Run
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1974 Jet
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1976 Wings at the Speed of Sound
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Silly Love Songs
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1978              Town
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With a Little Luck
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Ringo Starr
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good first half of the 1970s
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George Harrison
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33 and a third
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John Lennon
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retired
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New York apartment
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raising his son and being a house               
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1980 Double Fantasy
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murdered in December         
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"Just Like Starting Over"
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The Steve Miller Band
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San                    group
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like Greatful Dead
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Jefferson Airplane
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1973 The Joker
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1976 Fly Like an Eagle
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Rock 'n' Me
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Take the Money and Run
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The Doobie Brothers
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San Francisco
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two stages of career
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first half of 70s
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Tom                 
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1972: Listen to the Music
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1973: Long Train Running
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second half of 70s
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Michael McDonald
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a different sound
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not so much blues but more            like Steely Dan
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1976: Taking it to the Streets
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1979: Minute by Minute
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big #1 album
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Michael McDonald goes onto solo career after that
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Boston
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Tom             
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activist
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degree from       
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1976: Boston
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most astoundingly successful debut albums
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elements
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"More than a Feeling"
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mellow guitar
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symphonic, instrumental
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harmony guitars, as if drawn from            May of Queen
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big sounding number
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"                /Long Time"
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similar to Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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organ
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Foreigner
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comparable to             
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1977: "Feels like the First Time"
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high synthesizer
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"Cold as Ice"
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hard driving blues rock approach with progressive rock
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Journey
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San Francisco
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Gregg Rolie
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Neal Schon
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emphasis on instrumentals
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Steve           
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high voice
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becomes a different band with him
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1978: Infinity
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"Lights"
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"Feeling That Way"
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marketing of Journey and                    was different
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Foreigner was marketed to guys
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Hot Blooded
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Check It and See
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Feels Like the First Time
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not a lot of                        there
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Journey marketed to           
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Steve Perry's job was to emote a kind of sensitivity
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so you would never find Foreigner doing a song like lovin', touchin' squeezin'
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but from Steve Perry somehow it seemed entirely               
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Cheap Trick
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Rockford, Illinois
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Rick Neilsen
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Robin Zander, nice voice
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first big album was a live album
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like Kiss and Peter                 
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1979: Cheap Trick at Budokan
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"I Want You to Want Me"
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went to #7
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went to work with George              from the Beatles
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Van Halen
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arises in this context in the end of the 1970s
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1978 Van Halen
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blues driven rock with David Lee Roth with a certain amount of charisma that you didn't find in a lot of other groups
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"Runnin' with the           "
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people tend to focus on the guitars
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but these were great pop tunes with a catchy voice, a pop sensibility
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a radio                          which enabled it to get played over and over
1970s: Hippie Aesthetic, Corporate Rock, Disco, and Punk
British Blues-Based Bands and the Roots of Heavy Metal
American Blues Rock and Southern Rock
The Era of Progressive Rock
Jazz Rock in the 70s
Theatrical Rock: KISS, Bowie, and Alice Cooper
American Singer-Songwriters of the 70s
British and Canadian Singer-Songwriters
Country Rock's Influence on 1970s Music
Black Pop in the 1970s
Sly Stone and His Influence on Black Pop, Funk, and Psychedelic Soul
Motown in the 1970s
Philadelphia Sound and Soul Train
Blaxploitation Soundtracks
The Uniqueness of James Brown
Bob Marley and the Rise of Reggae
The Backlash Against Disco
1975-1980: The Rise of the Mega-Αlbum
Continuity Bands in the 1970s
Rock and Roll in the Second Half of the 1970s
U.S. Punk 1967-1975
1974-77: Punk in the UK
American New Wave 1977-80
British New Wave 1977-80
The Hippie Aesthetic: 1966-1980
The Rise of MTV
Michael Jackson: MTV's Unexpected Boon
Madonna as Disruptive Shock Artist
Prince and Janet Jackson
Other Groups Who Benefited from MTV
1980s New Traditionalists and New Wave
1980s New Acts, Old Styles and Blue-Eyed Soul
1970s Progressive Rock Adapts to the 80s
1980's Heavy Metal
1980s Heavy Metal and L.A. Hair Bands
1980s Ambitious Heavy Metal
The Beginning of Rap
1980s: Rap Crosses Over to Mainstream
Late 1980s Hard Core Rap
Punk Goes Hardcore
Late 80s Indie Rock Underground
1990s: The Rise of Alternative Rock
1990s Indie Rock and the Question of Selling Out
1990s Metal and Alternative Extensions
Hip-Hop in the 1990s
Classic Rock of the 1990s
1990s Jam Bands and Britpop
Female Singer-Songwriters of the 1990s
The Rise of Teen Idols in the 1990s
1990s Dance Music