Tag: Nineteen Hundred Seventies

The Stories of Teen Punks That Ruled New York In the Late ’70s

The year was 1977, and the first generation of New York City punk and alternative bands had moved…

Veterans of Carter-Era Inflation Warn That Biden Has Few Tools to Tame Prices

WASHINGTON — When inflation surged in the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter convened his top economic advisers for…

Kool & the Gang Get the Dance Floor Moving. Have They Gotten Their Due?

“Do something,” the producer Gene Redd instructed the drummer George Brown and the bassist Robert “Kool” Bell during…

The All-Female Band Fanny Made History. A New Doc Illuminates It.

JUNE MILLINGTON EXITED Fanny in late 1973 in part because of a near “nervous breakdown,” she said in…