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Just like today, 1970 was a scary time, exciting and uncertain. TheCambodia invaded by the United States while the Vietnam War and protests rage. TheTreaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was signed by 43 countries. TheApollo 13 The crew had a near fatal accident. It was also the year McDonald's introduced theShamrock Shake. Naturally, theMusicians 1970 were touched and inspired by these events and other events of the era. Fortunately for all of us, that means a lot of great songs were recorded - here are 50 songs from 1970 which turn 50 this year.

Although sometimes regarded as an anti-American war, anti-Vietnam, or just anti-woman, the Canadian women's group that credited to the origins of "American Woman" to something much simpler: after an outdoor tour through major US cities (and the groupies in each), they wanted to return to thefamiliar Women Canada. And for more music returns,It was probably the promise ball song you got its high school diploma.

Its immediately recognizable opening riffs, "Mama told me not to come" and clearly maintains fixedMood-howl. Most do not know that this version of the night's three dogsActually coverage-L'imentissement was conducted byeric burdon and writingRandy Newman.

Who can believe that it's been 50 years sinceJoni Mitchell's Eco-Warrior Anthem announced all of us to take better care of the planet and leave with all the paradise-paving? God thank you, we tried his warnings and there is noimpending environmental crises on the horizon.

TheEric ClaptonDerek frontaled Derek and the dominoes clearly knew they had a shot of contact with "Layla", which is probably why they did not bother to find a more creative way to their only album,Layla and other assorted love songs. Fun fact: the song was inspired by a 7th centuryHistory of Arabic love. And if you want more tunes lovey-dovey, they areThe 50 most romantic songs ever written.

Long beforeOzzy OsbournewasUnemployment on batsHe chewed the radio waves with this single from sophomore from Black Sabbath. Although ultimately, the title track of the album, "Paranoid" was designed for the first time as afilling singing.

The Liverpool boys pulled out all the stops for their final album and its title track, "let it be" served as a worthy commemoration of the relatively short trip and blind band. The sharp ears will notice the subtle differences between theGeorge Martin-Version single produced andPhil spectoral-The cutting of the album.

The best part of thisElton JohnThe song is not the poetic lyrics or the ethereal composition. Because he called "your song" and then gave explicitly give all FLEX listening authorizations and claim that Elton John wrote a song about them. A bit like whenTime Put a mirror on the cover and said we were all "a person of the year".

It is difficult to make a song that is simultaneously autobiographical andcountry par excellence which also affect the class struggle, butLoretta Lynn In one way or another, shot the hat trick, which is why she and "the daughter of a coal miner" are both considered great time.

MamboTito Puente Original was something special, but whenCarlos Santana Ratché energy and added psychédélienne substance for its 1970 cover of "Oye Como VA" it took full ownership of the track and helped bring Latin rock world.

This median plaintive Motown ditty on timeless post-break themes and has now spent half a century like a hymn for those who are wondering how to take the pieces. Think, all that Catharsis came from a song about the anxiety of the performance of the honeymoon. And for more pieces of heart healing, streamThe 100 best rupture songs of all time.

True Mortships are more careful of live spectacles, but during their peak,Jerry Garcia And the company had many successes to the public. The chef among them is this classic ofAmerican beautyThis gave the dead and their fans the emblematic line "which long strange journey."

If you have never had any dug in the words of "Cracklin 'Rosie, you may be blissibly without knowing about the dark subject that inspired the song. The titular rosie is not a living woman, but rather a reference to a cheap wine appreciated by people living in poverty.

The Velvet basement has never had a lot of radio game while the story was nice with them, and a handful of their tracks - like "Sweet Jane" - is now rented as some of the best in history rock. That said, the writer and singer of the song,Lou Reed, does not seem like the kind that would have taken care of one of that.

When the four beatles eachwent their separate ways In 1970, they also participated in their own artistic directions.George Harrison's The path was a trickee in the world of the folk gospel and its first solo runway, "my sweet lord", immediately proved that it could fall asleep without these three other guys.

How couldStephen Stills have known, while writing this song so many decades, that it would be the perfecttheme song to bestuck in a house with your other significant? At a time of such uncertainty, "loves one with whom you are", an ode to settle, is in a way of a certain opportunity than ever.

The protest songs of the Vietnam War were everywhere in 1970 and it looks like the renewal of Cleedence Clearwater produced about half of those who resisted the test of time. This track is at least a bit more fun, with its Woodstock images included alongside anti-Washington feelings.

Conversely, some protest songs go for a more visceral approach. This was the case for "Ohio", Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Response to theKENT STATE MASSACREWhere the National Guard soldiers fired on a crowd of unarmed protesters, killing four.

In the midst of all the aforementioned conflicts, people were always trying to stop and feel the roses. The main singer of Munggo Jerry,Ray dorset, perfectly captured an appreciation of the simple pleasures of life with this ode toCareful summer fun.

Joe Cocker The cover of this Song Tops Case is one of the largest rocky songs that also set the value of how many times has changed. While getting a letter in the mail of romantic interest seems obviously absurd today, 50 years ago, it was apparently so exciting that people would be ready to jump on a plane.

In most respects, the central history of this song, in which the naive protagonist connects unintentionally with a trans woman, certainly does not age well. But give at least Kinks credit to respect the pronouns of Lola in the lyrics.

Of all the euphemisms of sex to come from this time, "Do it with you" is probably the most serious. The soft boys of the sweet rock of bread took the phrase at its full potential by turning it into a touched song that proved to be sufficiently tamed for radio censors.

There have been a lot of speculation on the meaning of this title of this classic Chicago song, with some assuming a coded reference to the drug or Celeb Shoutouts. The boring truth is this composerRobert Lamm was simplyTry to write a song in the middle of the nightAnd checked the clock to see it was 25 or 26 minutes before 4am.

AloneStevie WonderCould find a way to transform the sending of parcels into something fun and flirting as he did with this song.

Paul McCartney's First Solo Single was a love song dedicated to his wife, Linda, who helped him through the Treant Beatles test. And if your other significant did not inspire you to create art that lights lists likeRolling stone. "500 best songs of all time" Then you may want to take a step back and re-evaluate the relationship.

Although it resembles a tribute to a new Orleans shuttle boat, the mountain had the title and sound for their greatest success, "Mississippi Queen", when two of the members of the group crushed a part of the battery And part of the guitar, they worked independently, by the lining notes. The work title of the guitar part was "the queen", so we can only assume that the drummer must choose "Mississippi".

The English group was inspired by writing "by the present time" after a particularly bad set forced the next band with theircloser. Like the story goes, only 10 minutes after hearing crickets at the end of this Abyssal show, BassistAndy Fraser had finished writing the song in the dressing room.

Decades beforeGeorge R.R. Martin wroteA song of ice and fire,James Taylor Wrote a song called "Fire and Rain". Its epic fantasy on the dragons and the monarchistic giant brinkmanship, the other is a dedication to a deceased childhood friend. We will leave you to understand what is the one.

The title track ofVan Morrison The third album brought some soft jazz to the radio Airwaves with its line of bass and saxchocheous. We are still not exactly sure of what a "mood" involves, but based on the melody, it's probably not so bad.

Cat Stevensnow passing through Yusuf Islam, wrote this song of rupture on aactress he dated for two years. Despite the condescending and misogynist elements of the song, he uses Spanish agreements creatively and sounds pretty, so he is stuck.

Although this has been appropriate for all kinds of Milquateoast advertisements and wedding dj, "Express yourself" was quite daring and hip when he fell first. And you have to giveCharles Wright Credit to make a traditional radio struck by a song away from elimination.

Something tells us that a song enumerates all the terrible things that happen in the world would not be super popular if it came out today. But 50 years ago, people did not have social media and cable news pumping negative information in their eyes and ears 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so temptations really break with this Funky clevis.

A fighter with destiny of temptation and darkness has entered in the form of the child "O-H O-H" of the five stairs ". The smooth soul trail of theseUnique wonders Offered a softness and melodic that "that will also pass".

While the five soothing stairs, the dark purple took a completely different approach to the comforting child with their trippy, sinuous Shanderg Prog Rock hit "child in time". Even if a child does not go out on the other side of that reassured, with his 10 minutes of execution time filled with interference and solo and offset, they could emerge on a different existence plan.

Of course, the song is especially only ad libs, a bass line and a repetitive call and a response betweenJames Brown And his group, but it always works undeniably. That's why James Brown is the only sex machine that has never been obsolete.

Karen Carpenter may seem like she lives in aDisney movie With the question of opening this song about why "birds suddenly appear every time you are near", but apparently considered more romantic than the cheese 50 years ago, while it was the song summer.

Like many other songs on this list, "Prepare yourself" is a mototown has been reconditioned for counter-culture. Take from the temptations, the rare earth pushed the label to release their blanket and was justified once the song became a bliss of Bonafide.

Curtis Mayfield's The first album was an impressive feat in its own right, but "move on" was its clear crown jewel. Only in 1971 after the nine-minute album version had been eliminated in a more repaired radio modification, which the track took off.

Before publicly declare that the war has become fairly public, it was still brave to talk against the military industrial complex and American military intervention. So whenEdwin Starr Crie in the "war" that the simple "thought of war blows [his] spirit", do you believe it.

We are all so lucky as the 1970 turn of Zeppelintook them across Iceland, who inspired this "immigration song". It was revolutionary then and always get the blood pumping today. It is not the belief of the band that decades of advertising without horseback on the coatte of real artist make you feel that you are in a car advertisement when you listen to it.

John Lennon I had no idea he had created what would become a huge and catharticInternet kind When he wrote "Karma instant!" We are sure he would appreciate it.

Jim Morrison And the doors removed all the stops and assembled all the tonks for "Blues of the road." With Morrison Sling and diving to the baby's voice more than other tracks, it is possible that the song of the song "has a beer" may have been used quite literally and liberal throughout the recording process.

Unique wonders Are always wonders, let's give Edison Lighthouse a little love for their song adorably surprisingly picturesque picturesque "love grows (where my rosemary)." They have never been able to match the success of this success, but it's the undisputed song # 1 on a person named Rosemary, and no one can never take them.

If you wonder why 73 men "sailed from San Francisco Bay" in the lyrics of the song, know that there is nothing too wild behind. The number has been chosen because it'sHow many keys were on the piano Be used to write the song. Hope this information has not ruined "Ride Captain Ride" for anyone.

In one way or another, Eric Burdon and War turned the tragedy of the actual life of the time when someone spilled the wine on an expensive mixing board in a fever of the key, dreams of 'a song. If it's not a musical genius, what is it?

Full of bombers soul and brass advocates, this classic always trascor the hearts. This could even pull on the hearts of your owner if you play for them through the door when they come to look for this late audit.

Written byTommy James andBob kingAnd interpreted by Alive N Kickin ', "tighter", is a song on the act of tightening. Most people like hugs, so the song has done well, what had the groupGold recording shaped hug RIAA.

After a decade of peace and love seemingly causing any real changes in the world, singer and composer of Moody Blues.Justin Hayward wrote "question" about this consternation. If the previous entries of this list have not already apparent, the musicians become quite existential in 1970.

Originally a folk ballad, then celibly covered by the tastes ofBob Dylan,Woody GuthrieAnd the animals, "Levant Sun House" spent more time with public awareness than most songs. But if you have not heard the psychedelic coverage by Detroit Rockers Frijid Rose, make yourself a favor and check it. Even if you heard it before, you are probably due for a resale.

It's hard to resist Funk Upbeat Jackson 5 comes out in "ABC". America could not resist. The song Frappa "leave it" at the top of the paintings and sitting in theN ° 1 For a solid month.

This funny and influenced by the Gospel was Simon and the greatest success of Simon & Garfunkel, but was ironically not enough to overcome the troubled water of the duoRelationship notoriously grudge. He finished as being the last song recorded forThe last album Paul Simon andGarfunkel art would liberate together.

Additional reporting of Ashley Moor.