Rock's 70

suspicion of mainstream culture and values. Blondie quickly lost their punk roots going on to become a pop/ska/reggae band.
Blues rock
Blues rock remains popular, with Eric Clapton, ZZ Top,and George Thorogood seeing the greatest success. Freddie King started moving from straight blues to blues rock since the genre was now mostly popular among white audiences.
Soft rock andsinger-songwriter
Some of the more notable pop/soft rock groups during the 1970s were the Carpenters, the Jackson 5, Bay City Rollers, The Guess Who, The Osmonds, and Queen.
Male soloists who characterized the popmusic of the era included Barry Manilow, Tom Jones, Johnny Mathis, Engelbert Humperdinck, Eric Carmen, Leo Sayer,Shaun Cassidy, and Rod Stewart. Female soloists who epitomized the '70sincluded Cher, Carly Simon, Dionne Warwick, Barbra Streisand, Rita Coolidge, and Helen Reddy.
Soft rock was prominently featured on many Top 40 and contemporary hit radio stations throughout the 1970s. Soft rockoften used acoustic instruments and placed emphasis on melody and harmonies. Major soft rock artists of the 1970s included Carole King, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Chicago, America, and FleetwoodMacs. 
A large number of country-pop and soft rock songs fit into the songs written and recorded by the same person. Some of the most successful singer-songwriter artists were: Jackson Browne, EricCarmen, Jim Croce, John Denver, Steve Goodman, Arlo Guthrie, Joel, Dave Mason, Don McLean, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Kris Kristofferson, and Gordon Lightfoot. King's album Tapestry became one of thetop-selling albums of the decade, and the song "It's Too Late" became one of the 1970s biggest songs. McLean's 1971 song "American Pie," became one of popular music's most-recognized songs of the 20thcentury, thanks to its abstract and vivid storytelling, which center around "The Day the Music Died" and popular music of the rock era.
In the 1970s Rock in Spanish began to emerge (specially in...