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Apple TV+ Announces Docuseries '1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything'

Some great rock albums in 1971:
Zeppelin IV
LA Woman - The Doors
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
The Yes Album & Fragile - Yes
Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
Tapestry - Carol King
Live at the Fillmore East -Allman Brothers
Teaser & The Firecat - Cat Stevens
Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Madman Across the Water - Elton John
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
Anticipation - Carly Simon
All Day Music - War
Santana (III) - Santana
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath

There are more but that is a solid list. We will see how many of these titles the documentary covers or if they only sitck with the real popular stuff. My guess is on the latter.
 
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sparkinstx said:
I was eleven that year, and the biggest event for me was that my bike was stolen from the bike rack at school, along with two other bikes, and yes, it was locked. :( It would be a year before I got another bike (we didn't have much money).
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Sorry about your loss of your bike, I am going to put a Airtag on my mountain bike when I get mine. But I still use a strong bike lock also.
 
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jlocker said:
Sorry about your loss of your bike, I am going to put a Airtag on my mountain bike when I get mine. But I still use a strong bike lock also.
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Yeah, that totally sucked. I probably wouldn't have gotten another bike, except that I found a $20 bill while walking home from school. 👊 That helped buy another Penney's bike, which was about $35 plus tax. WIN!
 
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sparkinstx said:
I was eleven that year, and the biggest event for me was that my bike was stolen from the bike rack at school, along with two other bikes, and yes, it was locked. :( It would be a year before I got another bike (we didn't have much money).
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I feel for you! I was 12 that year, and the bullies at my school liked to pick the combination locks on bikes and put the locks back on the bike rack, just to prove that they could. Sometimes they'd detach a wheel. Fortunately, they never stole anything (at least, not of mine).
 
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jlocker said:
I was 10 years old, the neighbor across the street owned a business office supply store and he brought over to show my dad the first portable handheld calculator. I fell in love with it and have been doing technology for the last 50 years :)

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It was an HP-35 for me. Couldn't believe what I was seeing when the HP rep in Palo Alto pulled it out of his shirt pocket to demo it for me.

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jkool said:
Was the first number you entered 5318008? 😂
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We had some stupid thing we did where we typed in different gas prices like 14, then 21, then 54, then 69 (this was like 1976, when gas prices were going up), and the question at the end was "And who gets all the profit?" Answer? 71077345 (upside down on the LEDs, it read Shell Oil). I'll have to try to remember the exact calculation. Like I said, stupid teenage stuff.
 
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I'm looking forward to this! Honestly, they could have picked almost any year from the beginning of rock 'n' roll on (assuming they wanted to keep it within the lifetimes of the oldest members of their likely target audience) and called it "The Year that Music Changed Everything." They should do a series. I'm over 60, and I've enjoyed music from every era. One thing I love about Apple Music is that it gives me a chance to check out artists that I've read about without having to buy an entire album. Back in the late '70s and early '80s, I frequented a used-record store, and I was willing to spend the $2 they charged for most used LPs. It was hit and miss, and I sold back a lot of them for $1.
 
Apple is really stretching for TV+ content. I'd find it difficult to put together 1 episode covering the significance of music in 1971 let alone a "series". Kind of pretentious if you ask me.
 
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That was a year of some really great Albums. Many have been mentioned already. One that hasn't is
Meddle - Pink Floyd.

'Echoes' was a sign of what was to come. They'd already put together most of DSOTM by the end of '71. DSOTM was premiered in Jan 1972 at Brighton Dome (UK). I've still got the ticket to that gig. People back then played instruments not a computer keyboard.
I went to many great gigs in London between 1970 and 1978.
 
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jazz1 said:
In 1971 I was spinning vinyl at a college AM radio station, with shoulder length hair, mustache and a PBR in hand. I met my future spouse there! ;) I look forward to this series!
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Great times. Undoubtedly your taste in beer has evolved since then ;)
 
Gator5000e said:
Some great rock albums in 1971:
Zeppelin IV
LA Woman - The Doors
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
The Yes Album & Fragile - Yes
Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
Tapestry - Carol King
Live at the Fillmore East -Allman Brothers
Teaser & The Firecat - Cat Stevens
Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Madman Across the Water - Elton John
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
Anticipation - Carly Simon
All Day Music - War
Santana (III) - Santana
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath

There are more but that is a solid list. We will see how many of these titles the documentary covers or if they only sitck with the real popular stuff. My guess is on the latter.
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Yes, Tarkus! Also, my older brother and sister had Aqualung, and she practically played that LP until it wore through.
 
RedRaven571 said:
Maybe it's just because it was exactly 50 years ago? Also the 50th anniversary of Sticky Fingers :cool:
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Yeah, the album with the real zipper. I remember seeing them in Penney's and Sears. I have a copy of "Their Satanic Majesties Request" with the 3D image thing on the front.
 
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