#10 in the Greatest Year in Music Countdown: 1975

1975 kicks off the final ten in WXPN’s Greatest Year in Music countdown.

Any list of albums released this year reads like a classic rock greatest hits compilation:

Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin
Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
A Night at the Opera – Queen
Blood On the Tracks – Bob Dylan
Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
Blues for Allah – Grateful Dead
Young Americans – David Bowie
Horses – Patti Smith
Katy Lied – Steely Dan
Blow by Blow – Jeff Beck
Northern Lights-Southern Cross – The Band

There were others, of course, like Bee Gee’s Main Course, Dylan and the Band’s The Basement Tapes and Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years.

Listen and follow the countdown playlists 7am-7pm daily on 11/2 – 11/6 on XPN’s Greatest Year in Music Countdown Homepage.

Below, listen to our 1975 Spotify playlist.

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Article by: Julie Miller