Premessa: per questo articolo, mi sono promessa di non metterci troppa Disco Music; nonostante la disco abbia segnato gli anni ’70 (specie dal ’74 in poi) ed io ne vada matta, in questo articolo sono riuscita a farne a meno (o quasi!).
Oltre alla Disco, uno dei generi più appassionanti dell’epoca è di certo il Soul; negli Stati Uniti è stato creato persino un programma musicale televisivo, dal ’71 e durato fino al 2006, che faceva ballare tutta la black generation (e non) a ritmo di 70s: Soul Train.
Programma del quale avrete visto sicuramente qualche filmato su youtube.

Nonostante ciò, gli anni ’70 hanno segnato il successo di noti gruppi rock/alternative rock, nati nel decennio antecedente gli anni ’70, che han fatto la storia della musica: Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Who, Led Zeppelin, Doors e Deep Purple, per esempio.
Detto ciò, ecco a voi alcune Greatest Hits anni SETTANTA che han fatto storia.
1970
- “Big Yellow Taxi” – Joni Mitchell
- “Instant Karma! (We ALl Shine On)” – John Lennon (“Woman”, “Imagine”, “Stand By Me”, “Watching The Weels”, “Jealous Guy”)
- “ABC” – Jackson 5 (“I Want You Back”, “Who’s Lovin’ You”, “The Love You Save”) 0
- “Father and Son” – Cat Stevens (“Wild World”)
- “Let It Be” – The Beatles (“Across The Universe”, “Come Together”, “Hey Jude”, “Lady Madonna”, “Here Comes the Sun”, “Twist and Shout”)
- “Bridge Over Troubled Water” – Simon & Garfunkel (“Mrs. Robinson”, “Cecilia”, “The Sound Of Silence”, “The Boxer”, “Baby Driver”)
- “My Sweet Lord” – George Harrison (“Got My Mind Set On You”)
- “Move On Up” – Curtis Mayfield
- “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)” – Stevie Wonder (“Sir Duke”, “Superstition”, “I Wish”, “Isn’t She Lovely”, “I Just Call To Say I Love You”, “Higher Ground”)

1971
- “A Horse with No Name” – America (“Ventura Highway”, “You Can Do Magic”)
- “Family Affair” – Sly & The Family Stone (“Everyday People”, “Dance to the Music”)
- “What’s Going On” – Marvin Gaye (“Let’s Get It On”, “You Are Everything ft. Diana Ross”)
- “Stairway To Heaven” – Led Zeppelin (“Whole Lotta Love”, “Immigrant Song”)
- “Riders on The Storm” – The Doors (“Light My Fire”, “The End”)
- “Cry Baby” – Janis Joplin (“Me and Bobby McGee”, “Piece of My Heart”)
- “Shaft” – Isaac Hayes
- “September” – Earth, Wind & Fire (“Boogie Wonderland”, “Let’s Groove”, “Fantasy”, “Shining Star”)
- “Can You Get To That” – Funkadelic (“Maggot Brain”, “Hit It and Quit It”)
- “Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine” – James Brown (“Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag”, “Get Up Offa That Thing”)
- “Get It On” – T. Rex

1972
- “You’re So Vain” – Carly Simons
- “Listen To The Music” – The Doobie Brothers (“Long Train Runnin’”)
- “Walk on the Wild Side” – Lou Reed (“Perfect Day”)
- “Lean On Me” – Bill Withers (“Lovely Day”, “Ain’t No Sunshine”)
- “Old Man” – Neil Young (“Alabama”, “Heart of Gold”)
- “Stuck In The Middle With You” – Stealers Wheel
- “Smoke On the Water” – Deep Purple
- “Love Train” – The O’Jays (“Black Stabbers”, “Now That We Found Love”)
- “Let’s Stay Together” – Al Green (“Tired of Being Alone”)

1973
- “Midnight Train to Georgia” – Gladys Knight & The Pips
- “The Jocker” – Steve Miller Band (“Abracadabra”)
- “I’ll Be Around” – The Spinners (“It’s A Shame”, “Then Came You”, “Working My Way Back to You”)
- “If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)” – The Staple Singers
- “Come and Get Your Love” – Redbone
- “Across 110th Street” – Bobby Womack
- “La Grange” – ZZ Top
- “Angie” – The Rolling Stones (“Brown Sugar”, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, “Sympatethy For The Devil”)

1974
- “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe” – Barry White (“You’re The First, The Last, My Everything”, “Let The Music Play”, “Just The Way You Are”)
- “Sweet Home Alabama” – Lynyrd Skynyrd (“Free Bird”)
- “Kung Fu Fighting” – Carl Douglas
- “Rock You Baby” – George McCrae
- “Until You Come Back to Me” – Aretha Franklin (“Respect”, “Think”, “Son Of A Preacher Man”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”)
- “Pick Up The Pieces” – Average White Band (“Let’s Go Roung Again”, “I Just Can’t Give You Up”)
- “T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)” – MFSB (acronimo di Mother, Father, Sister, Brother) (“Mysteries of The World”)
- “Tell Me Something Good ft. Chaka Khan” – Refus

1975
- “I’m Not in Love” – 10cc (“The Thing We Do For Love”)
- “Wake Up Everybody” – Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (“Don’t Leave Me This Way”, “If You Don’t Know Me by now”)
- “Wish You Were Here” – Pink Floyd (“Comfortably Numb”, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, “Learning to Fly”)
- “Mexico” – James Taylor (“Fire and Rain”)
- “Bohemian Rhapsody” – Queen (“Don’t Stop Me Now”, “We Will Rock You”)

1976
- “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” – Elton John (“Candle in The Wind”, “Sacrifice”, “Tiny Dancer”, “Crocodile Rock”, “Rocket Man”)
- “Year of The Cat” – Al Stewart (“Time Passengers”, “On The Border”)
- “The Boys Are Back in Town” – Thin Lizzy
- “The Best Disco In Town” – The Ritchie Family (“I’ll Do My Best”)
- “More, More, More” – Andrea True Connection
- “Lady Bump” – Penny McLean
- “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” – Leo Sayer
- “Hotel California” – Eagles (“Take It Easy”)
- “More Than a Feeling” – Boston
- “Sunny” – Boney M. (“Daddy Cool”, “Rasputin”, “Rivers of Babylon”, “Ma Baker”, “Brown Girl in The Ring”)
- “Dancing Queen” – Abba (“Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!”, “Waterloo”)
- “Play That Funky Music” – Wild Cherry

1977
- “The Passenger” – Iggy Pop (“Lust For Life”)
- “Heroes” – David Bowie (“Starman”, “Rebel Rebel”)
- “Disco Samba” – Two Man Sound
- “Native New Yorker” – Odyssey (“Hang Together”, “Going Back to My Roots”)
- “Wonderful Tonight” – Eric Clapton (“Layla”, “Cocaine”)
- “Stayin’ Alive” – Bee Gees (“How Deep Is Your Love”, “Night Fever”, “More Than A Woman”, “Too Much Heaven”)
- “Brick House” – Commodores (“Easy”, “Nightshift”)
- “God Save The Queen” – Sex Pistols

1978
- “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” – Rod Stewart
- “One Way or Another” – Blondie (“The Tide is High”)
- “Got To Be Real” – Cheryl Lynn
- “Who Are You” – The Who (“Baba O’Riley”, “Behind Blue Eyes”)
- “Is This Love” – Bob Marley & The Wailers (“Three Little Birds”, “Could You Be Loved”, “Buffalo Soldier”, “Jamming”, “Simmer Down”)
- “YMCA” – Village People (“Macho Man”, “Go West”, “5′ O’clock in The Morning”)
- “Sultans of Swing” – Dire Straits
- “Le Freak” – Chic (“Everybody Dance”, “Est-Ce Que C’est Chic”)
- “Baker Street” – Gerry Rafferty
- “Chase” – Giorgio Moroder (“From Here to Eternity”)
- “Flash Light” – Parliament (“Give Up The Funk”, “P-Funk”)

1979
- “Last Train to London” – Electric Light Orchestra (“Telephone Line”, “Evil Woman”, “Mr. Blue Sky”, “Don’t Bring me Down”, “Shine a Little Love”)
- “Message In A Bottle” – The Police (“Every Breath You Take”, “Roxanne”, “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic”, “So Lonely”)
- “My Sharona” – The Knack
- “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” – McFadden & Whitehead
- “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) ft. Barbra Streisand” – Donna Summer (“On The Radio”, “Hot Stuff”, “I Feel Love”, “Last Dance”, “Bad Girls”)
- “The Boss” – Diana Ross (“Reach Out And Touch”, “I’m Coming Out”, “Upside Down”)
- “The Logical Song” – Supertramp (“Goodbye Stranger”, “Give A Little Bit”) 9
- “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” – Kiss
- “A Message to You Rudy” – The Specials
- “Ride Like the Wind” – Christopher Cross (“Sailing”, “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)”)
- “Street Player” – Chicago (“If You Leave Me Now”)
- “Funky Town” – Lipps Inc.
- “And The Beat Goes On” – The Whispers (“Keep On Lovin’ Me”, “Rock Steady”)
- “I Wanna Be Your Lover” – Prince (“Purple Rain”, “Kiss”)
- “Cuba” – Gibson Brothers
