Rock music certainly had one of its best-ever years in 1970. The sounds of the '60s had matured and changed, and they dovetailed nicely with the new kinds of music that would develop and get more popular in the decade ahead. Purveyors of seemingly disparate styles such as folk rock, pop rock, hard rock, soft rock, psychedelic rock, soulful rock, jazzy rock, and experimental rock all made creative leaps and experienced great commercial success in 1970. This generated foundational classics that still get airplay today, many decades later, not to mention needle drops in movies and TV shows, as well as big numbers on streaming services.

But there's apparently only so much room in the collective memory and hearts. Many of the biggest, most rocking hits of 1970 have been memory-holed by the wor

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