Following the trying and tumultuous 1960s, the calendar turned to 1970, which brought with it a sense of change and newness. The youthful counterculture of the previous decade was poised to sit atop the cultural mainstream, and it entrenched the decade's music scene: Hard rock, blues rock, power pop, proto-metal, and stadium-filling anthemic rock emerged as the dominant styles of the era. Those forms gave the world a generation of definitive rock stars, like Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, and the Who's Roger Daltrey, among others.

There were so many preening, magnetic, and immensely talented rock stars that it made for a crowded marketplace. Many bands and solo acts made it to the top and got to enjoy only a relatively brief period of fame, fortune, acclaim, and adulation. Ove

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