The 1970s were one of music’s most explosive decades—where rock splintered into bold new forms, from prog and punk to disco and soul. Now, a new ranking from BBC Music Magazine has taken on the nearly ...

The year 1971 saw the release of a host of now-classic albums, including Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On? In a 2011 review of the album for Pitchfork, Ryan Dombal observed that it “marked the emergence ...