Between disco, rock, country, R&B, funk and soul music the 70s saw some of the greatest sonic outputs of any era, and to this day many of these songs are still celebrated and able to find new ...
(See "Getting Closer," found later in our list of Top 40 Paul McCartney '70s Songs, among others.) Asked what a "pure McCartney song" might be during a 1986 BBC documentary, he at first demurred.
The 1970s were an expansive time for American television. There was the gradually increasing diversity in casts, gritty detective tales, socially conscious Norman Lear series, the female “jiggle ...
The music industry is obsessed with "new". The charts discriminate against aging songs; radio stations stake their reputation on premieres; and Ofcom sets quotas for new music on the BBC.