1973, Andrew Grant Jackson
1973, Andrew Grant Jackson
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1973
Rock at the Crossroads

Author: Andrew Grant Jackson

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Unabridged: 14 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/03/2019


Synopsis

1973 was the year rock hit its peak while splintering—just like the rest of the world. Ziggy Stardust traveled to America in David Bowie's Aladdin Sane. The Dark Side of the Moon began its epic run on the Billboard charts, inspired by the madness of Pink Floyd's founder, while all four former Beatles scored top ten albums, two hitting #1.

FM battled AM, and Motown battled Philly on the charts, as the era of protest soul gave way to disco, while DJ Kool Herc gave birth to hip hop in the Bronx. The glam rock of the New York Dolls and Alice Cooper split into glam metal and punk. Hippies and rednecks made peace in Austin thanks to Willie Nelson, while outlaw country, country rock, and Southern rock each pointed toward modern country. The Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, and the Band played the largest rock concert to date at Watkins Glen.

Led Zep's Houses of the Holy reflected the rise of funk and reggae. The singer songwriter movement led by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell flourished at the Troubadour and Max's Kansas City, where Bruce Springsteen and Bob Marley shared bill. Elvis Presley's Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite was NBC’s top-rated special of the year, while Elton John's albums dominated the number one spot for two and a half months.


About Andrew Grant Jackson

Andrew Grant Jackson is the author of Still the Greatest: The Essential Songs of the Beatles' Solo Careers. He directed and cowrote the feature film The Discontents, starring Amy Madigan. He has written for Slate's "Blogging the Beatles," Baseline Studio System, and the music magazines Burn Lounge, Mean Street, and Dispatch, and copyedited the Hollywood monthly magazine Ingenue. He also served as actor Jeff Bridges's development associate at AsIs Productions. He lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

This book is encyclopedic in its breadth of information regarding the music scene in 1973. It is very detailed, not only in aspects of the music itself, but the culture, social and political climate at the time. I grew up as a Beatles fan in the sixties because of my older brother. Almost like one g......more

Goodreads review by Phil

There are some good stories in this book, and it was one helluva year, but the bulk is cobbled together from many, many sources that cannot obscure the author's lack of anything of his own to say about whatever he thinks the crossroads are. He also seems to take more joy in the foibles and weirdness......more