Among the things people get wrong about the 1970s is that it wasn't just all about disco. In fact, the 1970s just might be the most creatively explosive decade in music history. Several different genres emerged, were invented, or reached their artistic or popularity peaks in the decade, like singer-songwriter folk-rock, reggae, arena rock, soft rock, and, yes, disco. All those innovators generating exciting new forms of music made superstars out of a great many of them, despite the very messed-up 1970s music industry . While they may have recorded before the '70s and even into the following decades, they'll likely forever be publicly associated with that 10-year period; the human and creative equivalents of bell bottoms, tricked-out vans, and bicentennial fever.

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