Even if you heard these songs from the 1970s multiple times, you might have missed the shocking lyrics hidden within.

The 1970s had some pretty epic hits. However, beyond a handful of big name musicians who traversed the decades, there's a ...

Picking just a few nostalgic love songs from the 1970s is hard, considering how many came out that decade. These four will ...

Rhythm and blues is an inclusive term that captures a wide swatch of American popular music that began to infiltrate the mainstream after WWII. It grew out of disparate sources: delta blues, country, ...

Long before “queer visibility” became part of pop culture’s vocabulary, Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing was living it. In the 1970s and ’80s, as Hong Kong moved between British colonial rule and an uncertain ...

A lot of 1970s music was just good old-fashioned fun, while some of it was disturbing beyond all measure. One 1970s classic rock song tackled a deeply upsetting subject. However, it spoke about a ...

You know their best, but are you familiar with the second best songs of some of these 1970s "one-hit wonders"? These bands never set out to only have one track define their career, but in some cases ...

The 1970s was a turning point that saw the end of the idealistic ‘60s. Among the major events of the decade were the messy finale of the Vietnam War, Watergate, women’s liberation, the oil crisis, ...

With the third song on the third side of his landmark third solo album, 1972’s Something/Anything?, Todd Rundgren planted a tentpole for power pop. It’s a fun ride, for sure, and the way it clatters ...

Roberta Flack, a classically trained pianist who taught in the D.C. school system before launching a singing career that made her one of the most popular performers of the 1970s, with such No. 1 hits ...

If you look at the Top 10 songs on the Billboard charts, odds are you’ll find nary a love song. Tracks about heartbreak, friendship and self-empowerment abound, but straightforward ballads about ...