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

Le0M said:
I hope Michael Jackson will be in it!
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The Jackson 5 should be in it, as they were huge that year.

I scanned theorugh the Billboard Hot 100 list, and now I've got "Don't Pull Your Love" by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds stuck in my head. 🤦‍♂️
 
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This takes me back. Living in Montreal and from the age of 12 buying the British music papers Melody Maker and New Musical Express and occasionally Rolling Stone and Creem.

Going to the Montreal Forum for little money compared to tickets these days and seeing Yes, Led Zeppelin, Rainbow, Argent, Elton John, Rick Wakeman, George Harrison, Genesis, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and on and on.

There was a bar/club a block from the Forum called the Mustache where prior and post concerts often you could see the bands drinking or messing about.
 
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sparkinstx said:
I got to see Yes in 1998, at the old Bronco Bowl Auditorium in Dallas. That was one kickass concert.
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I saw Yes in 1975 (Yessongs tour) in Montreal. In those days, prior to the stampede tragedy in Cincinnati, you were allowed to stand on the main floor so I was about 25 feet in front of Jon Anderson.
 
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1971 - the year of my birth.

At the time of my birth the single that was at No.1 in the charts was 'Hot Love' by T. rex.

Sums it all up I think.
 
I could add that 1971 was also the year my avatar, Leonard Bernstein, wrote my favorite work of his, a really sprawling and eclectic "Mass" combining about as many styles of music as he could over the course of a two-hour work. Orchestra, chorus, show chorus, boy's choir, jazz band, rock band, kazoo, you name it. It was was commissioned by Jackie Onassis as the opening work of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Then it was ignored for about thirty years. Then suddenly everybody started staging it again.

Somehow I don't think this documentary will get to that one.
 
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sparkinstx said:
The Billboard Hot 100 from 1971:

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Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1971 - Wikipedia

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I remember listening to these on the Mighty 1190, KLIF in Dallas, owned by Gordon McLendon, one of the pioneers of Top 40 radio:

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Gordon McLendon - Wikipedia

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Looking at that list I don’t see much difference between those songs and the types of songs you could hear in 1970. Seems like the same sounds and genres from the same artists, mostly.

Now maybe it was down chart that the change was brewing. But honestly, the title seems to be convenient because it’s 50 years later.
 
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TriApple said:
Weird comment on a variety of levels, the least of which is how judgmental it is. Most what comes to mind is how wrong it is. Even if you did not use "hippies" in a negative context, the word, colloquially, doesn't even relate to a lot of this music.
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More dismissive. I think OK Boomer is also apropos.

it’s all Very Public Television. What an indulgence.
 
RobbieTT said:
1971 - the year of my birth.

At the time of my birth the single that was at No.1 in the charts was 'Hot Love' by T. rex.

Sums it all up I think.
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Oh you are a bit older than me, Maggie May was number 1 when I arrived...

This series looks great, I've been listening to a lot of music from 1971 lately and it was an amazing year.
 
ikramerica said:
Looking at that list I don’t see much difference between those songs and the types of songs you could hear in 1970. Seems like the same sounds and genres from the same artists, mostly.

Now maybe it was down chart that the change was brewing. But honestly, the title seems to be convenient because it’s 50 years later.
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1971 saw the birth of glam rock, the first proper 1970s genre, so you could saw the 60s was properly over.
 
I can't think of what specifically happened in 1971 to change music. It was a killer decade for music though, Disco, Prog, Electro, Punk, early house. An awful lot of my most favourite music came from back then.
 
sparkinstx said:
The Jackson 5 should be in it, as they were huge that year.

I scanned theorugh the Billboard Hot 100 list, and now I've got "Don't Pull Your Love" by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds stuck in my head. 🤦‍♂️
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Wasn’t stuck in my head until you mentioned it was stuck in yours. Damn you!
 
Apple is the equivalent of Bee Gees.
Microsawft is more like Boz Scaggs.
And Linux is Frank Zappa.
There is no Deep Purple among OS:s.
 
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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That list all seems like "the real popular stuff". I certainly remember pretty much all of it.
 
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