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The 1970s are generally remembered as a time of transition for pop and rock music. This was the decade in which music went from 1960s type of pop at the start to Disco music towards the end, which in turn, was the rhythm that led the music world into the 1980s.During the '70s, bands and singers also benefited from the production of 8 track s, which effectively became a new source of revenue for many singers and groups worldwide during the era.
Among groups that started during the 1970s and/or became famous during that era are:
- ABBA
- Aerosmith
- America
- Bay City Rollers
- Black Sabbath
- Can
- Chicago
- The Commodores
- CrassCrass was an influential English anarchist punk rock band. Overview Bristol, September 1981 Crass formed in 1977, based around Dial House, an anarchist community near Epping, Essex, in England. They were progenitors of a militant anarcho-pacifism that bec
- David BowieDavid Robert Jones (born January 8, 1947), better known as David Bowie is a profoundly influential British rock and roll musician, actor and artist, from the 1960s to the present. Early Years Bowie was born in Brixton, an area of London, but grew up in th
- The EaglesThis article is about the country rock group called The Eagles . For other uses of the word, see Eagle (disambiguation). The Eagles are an American rock music group that originally got together in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. Their early mu
- Fleetwood MacFleetwood Mac as a band originally named Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac is a rock and roll band which was started in 1968 by guitarist Peter Green, drummer Mick Fleetwood, and bassist John McVie, after the three left (or were fired from) John Mayall's Bluesb
- JourneyJourney is an American Rock and Roll band formed in 1973. Line-Up Steve Perry Neal Schon (also a member of Bad English and Hardline) Jonathan Cain (also an original member of The Babys & Bad English) Gregg Rolie (an original member of Santana) Aynsley Dun
- Lipps, Inc
- Haciendo Punto En Otro Son
- Iggy PopIggy Pop (born James Newell Osterberg is an American singer, famous as the frontman of The Stooges and as a solo artist. He was born on April 21, 1947 in Muskegon, Michigan. He began his musical career as a drummer in different high school bands. One band and the StoogesNot to be confused with The Three Stooges. The Stooges was a rock music band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Stooges like The Velvet Underground sold rather few records and performed for indifferent or hostile audiences, but are often regarded as h
- KC And The Sunshine Band
- Kiss
- Kraftwerk
- Led Zeppelin
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- The Miracles
- Queen
- The Ramones
- Rhythm Heritage
- Rush
- The Sex Pistols
- Stillwater
- Styx
- The Village People
- Wings (Headed by former Beatle Paul McCartney)
It should be pointed out that, contrary to popular belief, The Bee Gees are not a 1970s band. They are a 1960s band that had multiple hits in Australia, England and the United States during the '60s before coming back and scoring a few hits with the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever.