![]() ![]() Fortunately punk soon went the way of the dodo, with just about everyone involved trashing their “Please Kill Me” t-shirts to join Haircut 100, where they wore their socks over their pants legs like complete prats.īut returning to 1976, it seems I have omitted to mention what may well have been the year’s finest release. America’s Bicentennial Year–which I spent patriotically popping plenty of red, white, and blue pills-saw the release of such immortal LPs as Frampton Comes Alive, Hotel California, and Fly Like an Eagle, to say nothing of such timeless singles as Paul McCartney and Wings’ “Let ‘Em In,” Gary Wright’s “Dream Weaver,” Chicago’s “If You Leave Me Now,” Barry Manilow’s “I Write the Songs,” and Leo Sayers’ “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.”ĭespite the ominous pall cast by the advent of punk-that surly horde of three-chord barbarians who threatened to storm the gates and sack classic rock, just as the Visigoths did Rome-1976 may well be greatest year of rock ever.
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