Stacker looked at the #1 rock songs of the 1970s using the Billboard Hot 100 and MusicBrainz, an open music encyclopedia via the University of Waterloo.

These songs were overshadowed, underappreciated, or altogether forgotten before they were revived by shows like "The Simpsons" and "Saturday Night Live." ...

These 1970s rock songs were bigger than their bands. Now, these outfits are legendary, but at the time, these were anonymous ...

Ringo Starr has enjoyed his share of hit songs the Beatles broke up. Here's a countdown of his 30 best songs, from "Photograph" to now.

Turn that radio up, there are no bed times here! See how many hits from the '70s and '80s you remember, and which have you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disco fans know there are hits, and then there are songs that define an entire era. For singer Cheryl Lynn, that defining moment ...

Speaker B: Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate Magazine about the hits from coast to coast. I’m Chris Melanfy, chart analyst, pop critic and writer of Slate’s why Is this ...

Prince was, in a way, made from music. His mother and father met because of music, and when they had Prince, he was given his ...

There are some songs that just never quite go away. In recent years, music from the 70s, especially, has captured the attention of younger generations, leading other artists to try their hand at some ...

The 1970s were an electric time for music in more ways than one. This decade saw rock and roll, which had coalesced in the 1960s, splinter off into subgenres including glam, soul, disco, heavy metal, ...

Modern digital recording offers artists unparalleled precision, a stark contrast to the constraints of the 1950s and '60s. Limited recording time and equipment costs meant "good enough" was the ...