The social conditions and their influence on music in the 70s, the Greek reality, the artists, the songs, the records. The junta fiestas on the one hand, the political song on the other, with an electric underground on the fringes • municipal, populist, new-wave vote of confidence/tolerance towards what was dominant until 1974, artistic breakthroughs with a popular facade and competitive content – for the chimney that froze, for the enemy people, etc. – from the Postcolonization to the edges of the Pasokian Change, with intermediate wedges from live in Kyttaros, Aphrodite's Child and Pavlos Sidiropoulos.
Glam rock, the sinful life of the legends David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Freddie Mercury, the New York scene, punk, funk and the disco that followed, Motown, afrobeat, the solo careers of the Beatles, the stylistic shock to conservative America, the Holy Grail of hard rock, progressive rock, even eurodisco and europop, it's all here. Along with in-depth studies of the relationship between rock and classical music in that decade, the rise and fall of songwriters, the German scene, easy listening, early electronic music, fashion trends, album covers.
For the first time in one publication the entire (musical) decade of the 70s, in Greece and internationally, a whole world of music, with texts-studies, opinion articles, rare photographs, publications of the time and delightful narratives that transport us to the climate of the time . And together with a complete guide with the best albums and the best songs of the decade, Greek and international, as well as 70 "lost" albums, that is, those that did not become widely known, but are worth discovering for every music lover!
