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Yes,the 1975got their name from a Jack Kerouac book.
No,Matt Healy doesnt remember which one.
Time will tell for Important.
The actual year, 1975, was also full of Big and Important Rock and Roll Moments.
Classic rock was born.
(1975 was also the year rock bands startedsuccessfully ripping off disco.)
Seymour Stein signed his latest act, the Ramones, and gave them money to record their first album.
Iron Maiden, the only good band, was formed.
And Glen Campbell recorded every future sad indie boys favorite country song, Rhinestone Cowboy.
To the eclectic listener the audience the 1975 aims to reach these are all milestones worth celebrating.
The year 1975 can also offer some minor parallels to our modern world.
Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act and then ignored it.
Margaret Thatcher became Britains Conservative Party leader in the same year the U.K. voted to stay in the E.U.
Patty Hearst was arrested.
Microsoft,Wheel of Fortune, and Space Mountain were born.
Americans ignored Pele and watchedAll in the Family.
Love it that we made it.
(Listen to this supercut viaSpotify.)
If you enjoy Eno circa 1975, also check outhis other masterpieceandhis former bands pretty great LP.
(Or maybe moreU.K.
(Would you like to be friends?
/ No, I just want a bed for the night.)
Joni Mitchell, The Jungle Line
If you liked Mine, wait until you dig into post-BlueJoni Mitchell.
Keith Jarrett, Koln, January 24, 1975, Pt.
In fact, the 1975s excellent EPs are 52.94 percent pretty interludes.
Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music, Pt.
(See also 10ccs Im Not in Love.)
Patti Smith, Kimberly
The most the 1975sounding track off the best album of 1975.
Pink Floyd, Have a Cigar
Have a Juul.
Maybe theyve already achieved it.
God bless them for going for it.
