While citizens across our great nation were celebrating our Bicentennial, Jeffry Hyman, John Cummings, Douglas Colvin, and Thomas Erdelyi entered a recording studio in New York and created a new genre of rock ‘n’ roll that would remain viable for decades. The Ramones started the revolution. The Sex Pistols took the punk rock torch and simultaneously thrilled and repulsed the public, reestablishing a rock ‘n’ roll tradition that had been dormant for far too long. Rock music felt dangerous again. Mothers across the globe looked pensively at their empty safety pin containers.
Anarchy in the U.K., The Sex Pistols
Blitzkrieg Bop, The Ramones
The Boys Are Back in Town, Thin Lizzy
Cherry Bomb, The Runaways
Couldn’t Get it Right, Climax Blues Bland
Crazy on You, Heart
Dazz, Brick
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult
Dream On, Aerosmith
Final Solution, Pere Ubu
Fool to Cry, Rolling Stones
Fooled Around and Fell in Love, Elvin Bishop
Golden Years, David Bowie
Good Hearted Woman, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
Hurricane, Bob Dylan
Kiss and Say Goodbye, The Manhattans
Long May You Run, The Stills-Young Band
More, More, More, Andrea True Connection
One Piece at a Time, Johnny Cash
P Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up), Parliament
Play That Funky Music, Wild Cherry
Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Warren Zevon
Rhiannon, Fleetwood Mac
Right Back Where We Started From, Maxine Nightingale
Roadrunner, The Moder Lovers
The Rubberband Man, The Spinners
Saturday Night, The Bay City Rollers
Shake Some Action, Flamin’ Groovies
So It Goes, Nick Lowe
Something He Can Feel, Aretha Franklin
Take It to the Limit, The Eagles
Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk), Parliament
Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World, The Ramones
Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright), Rod Stewart
Turn the Beat Around, Vicki Sue Robinson
Wake Up, Everybody (Part I), Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
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