Doug and Kirk look at how 1977 was a watershed year for popular music.

Show notes:

• ECM Records Now Available on Apple Music
• Eagles: Hotel California
• Billy Joel: The Stranger
• Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
• The Clash: The Clash (UK version)
• The Clash: Give ’em Enough Rope
• The Clash: The Clash (US version)
• Four Manchester bands we owe to the Sex Pistols’ Lesser Free Trade Hall gig 40 years ago
• Elvis Costello: My Aim is True
• Elvis Costello: Less Than Zero > Radio, Radio on Saturday Night Live
• Saturday Night Fever
• Episode #76 – Mirror Balls and Polyester: Looking Back at Disco Music
• Grateful Dead Movie
• The Hobbit
• Abba: The Movie
• Episode #59 – 1967 and the Summer of Love
• 100K+ Descend Upon Central New Jersey For Grateful Dead Show On This Date In 1977
• Photos from Englishtown 1977
• Grateful Dead: Dick’s Picks Vol. 15, Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ, 9/3/77
• Beach Boys Turn Central Park Into California Dreamin’ (New York Times)
• Sha Na Na
• Aerosmith: Walk This Way
• Run-DMC: Walk This Way
• Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
• Meatloaf: Bat out of Hell
• 40 Years Ago: Bruce Springsteen Settles 10-Month Lawsuit with Manager Mike Appel
• Talking Heads: Talking Heads: 77
• Television: Marquee Moon
• Marquee Moon (Wikipedia)
• The 1977 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll
• Okay, I’m not going to link to every album in the Chritsgau list…
• “Heroes” (Wikipedia)
• Laserium

Our next tracks:

• Kirk: Tangerine Dream: Encore
• Doug: Eric Clapton: Slowhand

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