Ten years, a dozen revolutions
The 1970s didn't have a sound; they had a dozen, all at full volume. Soul grew into funk, funk put on a mirror ball and became disco, singer-songwriters turned the radio into a diary, and rock split into tribes — glam, prog, punk, metal, and the stadium acts still headlining today. It was the last decade when a hit could come from anywhere and sound like anything, and the first when the album mattered as much as the single.
Deezer's own 70s Hits playlist, which powers the player below, opens like the decade's perfect jukebox: Fleetwood Mac twice in the first ten, the Eagles' “Hotel California,” AC/DC and Lynyrd Skynyrd flying the rock flag, ABBA's “Dancing Queen” carrying disco's crown, and Bill Withers closing the ten with “Ain't No Sunshine” — three minutes of soul that could stop any room in any decade. Disco, rock, soul, and soft-focus California gold, all sharing one list: that was the seventies' whole argument, and it still holds up.
Top 10
The opening ten of the playlist, at a glance. The full list, playable top to bottom, is just below — loaded fresh from Deezer's “70s Hits” playlist every time this page opens.
- Dreams — Fleetwood Mac
- Highway to Hell — AC/DC
- Have You Ever Seen The Rain — Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Hotel California (2013 Remaster) — Eagles
- Dancing Queen — ABBA
- Sultans Of Swing — Dire Straits
- Sweet Home Alabama — Lynyrd Skynyrd
- The Chain (2004 Remaster) — Fleetwood Mac
- I Was Made For Lovin' You — Kiss
- Ain't No Sunshine — Bill Withers
The full 1970s playlist
The album decade
The seventies were when the album won. Artists started building records as whole statements — side one, side two, a story in the sequencing — and listeners bought the stereos to honor them. But the decade never gave up the single, either: disco was a singles machine, AM radio still minted one-hit wonders, and every bar jukebox ran on 45s. The 70s lived comfortably in both worlds, which is why this one playlist can hold a six-minute Eagles epic and a three-minute ABBA single without blinking.
Press Play All and take the tour in order. You'll hear the decade argue with itself — arena rock against disco, confessional songwriters against stadium choruses — and the argument is the point. Every genre that matters today was either born in the seventies or got its commercial engine there. This is the source code, and it still sounds like Saturday night.
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