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Best Songs of 1974

ABBA win Eurovision with “Waterloo”. Lynyrd Skynyrd have “Sweet Home Alabama”, Kraftwerk “Autobahn”, and the first disco records reach number one.

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26 songs

1974 on Music By Decade

The catalogue holds 26 songs first released in 1974. Pop, Rock and Soul lead the year. Olivia Newton-John, Barry White and Dolly Parton are among the voices of 1974.

Best Songs of 1974

Killer Queen

Rebel Rebel

Have You Never Been Mellow

I Honestly Love You

I Will Always Love You

Love Is Like a Butterfly

Please Mr. Please

Teenage Dream

Waterloo

You Are So Beautiful

The Carpet Crawlers

No Woman, No Cry

Autobahn

I Shot the Sheriff

In My Hour of Darkness

People Gotta Move

Return of the Grievous Angel

Sex Machine

Águas de Março

Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe

Quimbara

She

Sweet Home Alabama

You're the First, the Last, My Everything

Cats in the Cradle

Lady Marmalade

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