The year in music
Best Songs of 1970
The Beatles break up. Simon & Garfunkel have “Bridge over Troubled Water”, Black Sabbath’s first album starts heavy metal, and Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin die within weeks of each other.

Play 1970
38 songs

Across the Universe
The Beatles

Let It Be
The Beatles

Brown Sugar
The Rolling Stones

Proud Mary
Tina Turner

Cry Me a River
Joe Cocker

The Letter
Joe Cocker

Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)
The Temptations

Into the Mystic
Van Morrison

Moondance
Van Morrison

Your Song
Elton John

Bitches Brew
Miles Davis

Casey Jones
Grateful Dead

Friend of the Devil
Grateful Dead

I'm Eighteen
Alice Cooper

Ripple
Grateful Dead

Southern Man
Neil Young

Sugar Magnolia
Grateful Dead

Uncle John's Band
Grateful Dead

Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath

Child in Time
Deep Purple

Iron Man
Black Sabbath

Move On Up
Curtis Mayfield

Paranoid
Black Sabbath

War Pigs
Black Sabbath

Whaling Stories
Procol Harum

Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Diana Ross

Lola
The Kinks

Sweet Jane
The Velvet Underground

Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel

Cecilia
Simon & Garfunkel

Mother
John Lennon

Big Yellow Taxi
Joni Mitchell

Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn

Oye Como Va
Santana

A Song for You
Leon Russell

In the Summertime
Mungo Jerry

Layla
Derek and the Dominos

Me and Bobby McGee
Janis Joplin
1970 on Music By Decade
The catalogue holds 38 songs first released in 1970. Rock, Folk Rock and Classic Rock lead the year. Grateful Dead, Black Sabbath and Joe Cocker are among the voices of 1970.
Artists of 1970
- Grateful Dead5
- Black Sabbath4
- Joe Cocker2
- Simon & Garfunkel2
- The Beatles2
- Van Morrison2
- Alice Cooper
- Curtis Mayfield
- Deep Purple
- Derek and the Dominos
- Diana Ross
- Elton John
- Janis Joplin
- John Lennon
- Joni Mitchell
- Leon Russell
- Loretta Lynn
- Miles Davis
- Mungo Jerry
- Neil Young
- Procol Harum
- Santana
- The Kinks
- The Rolling Stones
The sound of 1970
- Rock70s
- Folk Rock70s
- Classic Rock70s
- Hard Rock70s
- Soul70s
- Folk70s
- Metal70s
- Singer-Songwriter70s
- Funk70s
- Pop70s