5 pop songs that defined the 1970s. Story by Jonathan Eig • 1w. T o musical bluebloods, or blue-ears, or whatever you might call them, pop music has always been seen as an opiate for the masses.

These pop one-hit wonders from the 1970s were megahits back in the day, but they probably wouldn't chart as well in the 21st century.

You can learn a lot about any given year by listening to its most popular songs. In 1970, the No. 1–selling single was Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” an ode to ...

Disco music was one of the predominant forms of pop music in the 1970s.While subsequent generations made disco songs, the genre never again reached the same level of cultural saturation it did ...

A&E; Pop culture; Roberta Flack, popular song stylist of the 1970s, dies at 88 Feb. 24, 2025 Updated Mon., Feb. 24, 2025 at 10:12 p.m. American jazz, soul and folk musician Roberta Flack performs ...