While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

The piano can be seen in the 1971 film footage that features John Lennon performing Imagine for his wife Yoko Ono at his home in England and in Sean Lennon's much debated photo from 2010 showing pop musician Lady Gaga playing the piano.

Enrique " Ricky " Martín Morales ( born December 24, 1971 ), better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.

The song was released on January 17, 1971 and quickly shot to number-one on the R & B charts within a month staying there for five weeks, also reaching number-two on the Billboard pop chart and number-one on Cashbox's pop chart for a week, selling over two million copies.

Kenny Vance, a member of the pop group Jay and the Americans, who had a production office in the building, took an interest in their material that led to work on the soundtrack of the low-budget Richard Pryor film You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat in 1971.

Their 1971 recording of " Respect Yourself ", written by Luther Ingram and Mack Rice, peaked at # 2 on the R & B charts and was a # 12 pop hit as well.

Finally, on 1 January 1971, the rural municipalities of Fjære ( pop: 6, 189 ) and Landvik ( pop: 2, 781 ) were merged into the town of Grimstad ( pop: 2, 794 ) to form a significantly larger municipality with a total population of 11, 764 at the time of the merger.

Two more of Stevens ' songs in 1971 were also minor pop hits, " A Mama and a Papa " and " All My Trials ," but both crossed over to the Top 10 Adult-Contemporary lists.

The version was also well received in the UK, reaching number six in the pop charts in October 1971.

The musical Godspell ( 1971 ), had similar religious themes ( albeit with a less controversial treatment ) and pop / rock influences.

* Colin ( born 1969 ) and Jonny Greenwood ( born 1971 ) of the pop group Radiohead lived in the village when young.

The song was her first entry on the U. S. charts, peaking at # 28 pop in 1971, although a cover version by Helen Reddy was a bigger hit.

Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, for example, issued Greatest Hits in 1971, three years after their first top 40 pop hit.

* Tiffany ( singer ) ( born 1971 ), American pop artist

After realising it was not, he decided to cover the song for his album Nilsson Schmilsson in 1971 ; it stayed at number 1 on the U. S. pop chart for four weeks, from 13 February to 11 March 1972.

Gordon Lightfoot's version hit No. 13 on the pop chart and No. 1 country in his native Canada in 1970, and was also a top 10 hit in South Africa in 1971.

After signing with Columbia in 1970, Anderson released the Joe South song, "( I Never Promised You A ) Rose Garden ," which became a major crossover pop hit in 1970 and early 1971.

Lynn Anderson had two No. 1 hit singles on the Billboard country chart in 1971 with " You're My Man " and " How Can I Unlove You ", both peaking at No. 63 on the Billboard pop chart.

In 1971, the Dells ' " The Love We Had Stays on My Mind " became another Top Ten hit on the R & B charts, also reaching the pop Top 30.

Its decline, however, was slowed by both an era of relative prosperity in Argentina, as well as milestones such as the inaugural of the Hotel Claridge in 1946, the Torcuato di Tella Institute's Florida Street center in 1963 ( which became a hub of Buenos Aires ' avant-garde and pop art scene during the 1960s ), and the 1971 conversion of the street into a promenade.

GRIMMS was an English pop rock, skit and poetry group, originally formed as a merger of The Scaffold, the Bonzo Dog Band, and the Liverpool Scene for two concerts in 1971 at the suggestion of John Gorman.

Released in the summer of 1971, " Easy Loving " rapidly began climbing the charts ; and by that September, it was No. 1 for three weeks on the country charts and reached No. 17 on the pop charts.

The term was reportedly coined in 1971 by rock critic Dave Marsh in a review of their show for Creem magazine.

Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.

* 1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the " Church of Rock and Roll ".

In 1972 Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

In 1971, Lemmy joined the space rock band, Hawkwind, who were based in Ladbroke Grove, London, as a bassist and vocalist.

Dave Marsh was the first music critic to employ the term punk rock: In the May 1971 issue of Creem, he described?

Later in 1971, in his fanzine Who Put the Bomp, Greg Shaw wrote about " what I have chosen to call ' punk rock ' bands — white teenage hard rock of ' 64-66 ( Standells, Kingsmen, Shadows of Knight, etc .)".

After Guralnick graduated from Boston University in 1971 with a master's degree in creative writing, he began writing books chronicling the history of blues, country, rock and roll and soul.

Like Alan Wilson, Duane Allman played a key role in bringing slide guitar into rock music, through his work with The Allman Brothers Band, specifically on the 1971 live album At Fillmore East and with Derek and the Dominos ' Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album.

By Meddle ( 1971 ), specifically the suite " Echoes ", they moved in the direction of symphonic prog rather than psychedelic rock.

Yes, starting with their third album The Yes Album ( 1971 ), produced a highly successful blend of classical, psychedelic and progressive ensemble rock.

A 1971 review from Creem stated " My response is that crystallization of everything that is rock ' n ' roll music, at its finest, was to allow my jaw to drop, my body to move, to leap out of the chair ...

For instance, in 2008 a laboratory device which ejects and identifies particles found small amounts of the compound in the inside of volcanic rock brought from Moon to Earth by the Apollo 15 crew in 1971.

** James Douglas " Jim " Morrison, American rock musician ( The Doors ) ( d. 1971 )

* Killer ( Alice Cooper album ), a 1971 rock album by Alice Cooper

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of the late Freddie Mercury ( lead vocals, piano ), Brian May ( guitar, vocals ), John Deacon ( bass guitar ), and Roger Taylor ( drums, vocals ).

In 1970 and 1971, Wakeman was part of the folk rock group Strawbs.

In 1971, Wakeman joined the progressive rock band Yes, replacing their organist Tony Kaye.

The general method was originally developed by Cundall in 1971 to problems in rock mechanics.

* Peter Salisbury ( born 1971 ), drummer in the rock band, The Verve

* Scot Coogan ( born 1971 ), American rock drummer

When the Kinks changed record labels from RCA to Arista in 1976, Davies abandoned his then-recent propensity for ambitious, theatrical concept albums and rock operas — the RCA era ( 1971 – 75 ) had produced Muswell Hillbillies, Everybody's in Show-Biz, Preservation Act 1 and Act 2, Soap Opera and Schoolboys in Disgrace — and returned to writing more basic, straightforward songs.

Another Christian rock pioneer, Randy Stonehill, released his first album in 1971, the Larry Norman-produced Born Twice.

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner.