Hello and welcome to the Rock n Coasters podcast, I am one of your hosts, Michele Forto. To kick off the new year we are starting something new every week. We are going to talk about the top rock albums of the year and share some cool facts from back in time. Sit back kids, this is going to be a wild ride.
- What a year it was. This was the year that my husband and sometimes co-host, Robert started school. Did you know that he walked to school up hill both ways in the snow in Kindergarten? How is that possible? His elemnerty school was in a valley, called a holler in his neck of the woods. Yep, that’s right.
So what happened in 1977. Well…for starters one of the biggest movies in the history of movies came out. That’s right…Smokey and the Bandit, and another one too, Star Wars Episode, IV: A New Hope.
The most popular Christmas toys of the year were: the Atari 2600 Console, Star Wars Toys, Chai Pets, Slime, Skateboards. Did you have a bucket of Slime?
The Quotes
“May the Force be with you”
– All of the Jedis in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
“We are two wild and crazy guys”
-Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd on Saturday Night Live
Let’s jump into the top rock album of the year.
1977: Sex Pistols, ‘Never Mind the Bollocks … Here’s the Sex Pistols’
If punk started to catch on in 1976, it absolutely exploded in 1977 with the introduction of a brash outfit known as the Sex Pistols. Their combustible energy yielded but one album, but oh what an album it was as ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’ perfectly captured the disillusionment of working-class youth in the U.K. “Anarchy in the U.K.” became a punk anthem, while “God Save the Queen” stirred up all kinds of controversy in the band’s homeland. Led by one of rock’s great frontmen Johnny Rotten, the band offered a no-holds-barred aural attack through such songs as “Pretty Vacant,” “Bodies,” “Holiday in the Sun” and “EMI.” From top-to-bottom, it’s a punk masterpiece that helped define the genre and influenced many acts in the years to come.
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Oh, one last bit of trivia, The e.p.t. pregnancy test was available over the counter. Previously, there was an ancient Egyptian test that was right about 2 out of 3 times, involving peeing on barley and wheat, that could even tell the sex of the children
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I am your host, Michele Forto, see you next time.
