By the mid-1970s, he attempted to avoid the use of the term " religion ", seeing it as inferior to science.

Deezen attempted stand-up one last time, however, when he appeared on an episode of The Gong Show in the mid-1970s, only to be gonged by singer-songwriter Paul Williams.

By the mid-1970s filmmakers avoided the genre in favor of using music by popular rock or pop bands as background music, partly in hope of selling a soundtrack album to fans.

By the mid-1970s McIlwaine's songs " Sliding ", " We the People " and " Losing You " were included on the compilation album, The Guitar Album.

Paul's most-recognizable recordings from then through the mid-1970s were an album for London Records / Phase 4 Stereo, Les Paul Now ( 1968 ), on which he updated some of his earlier hits ; and, backed by some of Nashville's celebrated studio musicians, a meld of jazz and country improvisation with fellow guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins, Chester and Lester ( 1976 ), for RCA Victor.

Of his solo work, Cale is perhaps best known for his album Paris 1919, and his cover version of Leonard Cohen's " Hallelujah ", plus his mid-1970s Island Records trilogy of albums: Fear, Slow Dazzle, and Helen of Troy.

The music developed on tour was later recorded for the 1983 album Procession, which showed the band beginning to make something of a return to the " world music " which it had pioneered in the mid-1970s and featured a cameo appearance from The Manhattan Transfer.

All three were close friends of Belew's whom he'd met during his Sweetheart days in the mid-1970s, and were also ex-members of The Raisins ( a Cincinnati-based band that had some local success in the early 1980s and had had an album produced by Belew ).

In the mid-1970s, Eric and Ernie recorded a tribute album, Morecambe and Wise Sing Flanagan and Allen ( Phillips 6382 095 ), in which they performed some of the earlier team's more popular songs in their own style, without attempting to imitate the originals.

Quiet storm is a late-night radio format, featuring soulful slow jams, pioneered in the mid-1970s by then-station-intern Melvin Lindsey at WHUR-FM, in Washington, D. C. Smokey Robinson's like-titled hit single, released in 1975 as the title track to his third solo album, lent its name to the format and to the radio program that introduced it to the public.

Founder Pat Metheny first emerged on the jazz scene in the mid-1970s with a pair of solo albums ; Bright Size Life released in 1976-a trio album with bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius and Bob Moses, followed by Watercolors in 1977, featuring Eberhard Weber on bass, pianist Lyle Mays, and drummer Danny Gottlieb.

During the mid-1970s, he briefly revived his musical career, releasing the EP Screwed Up, album Vampires Stole My Lunch Money and single " Broken Statue ".

Triumvirat subsequently produced modestly successful albums during the early to mid-1970s, including Mediterranean Tales: Across The Waters and Illusions on a Double Dimple and toured the United States with Fleetwood Mac to support Illusions on a Double Dimple, playing the album in its entirety.

( Meanwhile, Denny left to join Fairport Convention and the album was forgotten until it was issued on Pickwick Hallmark in the UK in mid-1970s.

AOR evolved from progressive radio in the mid-1970s, using research and formal programming to create an album rock format with greater commercial appeal.

Sufficiently Breathless, the second album by Captain Beyond, was released in 1973 and features a jazzier, smoother sound than its predecessor, reminiscent of mid-1970s Santana.

Newman also incorporates actual historical events into the album, remarking upon the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 on " Louisiana 1927 " and a plea to Richard Nixon to alleviate poverty as a result of the recession of the mid-1970s on " Mr. President ( Have Pity on the Working Man )".

The album is softer in composition than its immediate predecessors with a return to slower, more introspective ballads as compared to the faster, country style of Lightfoot's mid-1970s albums.

This album addresses and parodies pseudoscientific beliefs of the mid-1970s.

In this era he released the studio album Bitches Brew, which was certified as platinum, culminating in the long electric jams from the mid-1970s released as Pangaea, Agharta, and Dark Magus.

Released in 1976, the album gave a strong representation of the mid-1970s L. A. Jazz / Funk sound.

In the mid-1970s, his voice caught the attention of Abbey Road and The Dark Side of the Moon engineer Alan Parsons, who was in the process of recording what was to be the first album by The Alan Parsons Project, Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

Other rock fanzines of this period include Flash, 1972, edited by Mark Shipper, Eurock Magazine ( 1973 – 1993 ) edited by Archie Patterson and Bam Balam, written and published by Brian Hogg in East Lothian, Scotland, beginning in 1974, and in the mid-1970s, Back Door Man and denim delinquent.

They were also an important influence on the development of alternative rock, as bands adapted elements from the " Zeppelin sound " of the mid-1970s, including The Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

Beginning life as the Guildford Stranglers on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey, they originally built a following within the mid-1970s pub rock scene.

Much of the band ’ s enduring and unfashionable reputation stems from their emergence in the early 1980s as the most commercially successful band of the neo-progressive rock movement, an unexpected revival of the progressive rock musical style that had fallen out of critical favour in the mid-1970s.

In the mid-1970s, it was decided not to make alterations to the rock wall and remove the talus, citing the trend to allow nature to take its course.

Pub rock was a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United Kingdom.

Blue Swede was a Swedish rock band from the early-to mid-1970s that succeeded with a few singles which were covers of other artists ' material.

Danzig's musical career, beginning in the mid-1970s, has encompassed genres such as punk rock, heavy metal, industrial, blues and classical music.

When an arena staging was conceived for the progressive-rock group Yes by their tour manager Jim Halley in the mid-1970s, it prompted a redesign of rock concerts and venue seating arrangements.

The band Japan also refuted any connection with the New Romantic movement and had adopted an androgynous look and worn make-up ever since their inception in the mid-1970s at the tail end of the glam rock era, many years before the New Romantic movement had begun.

With songwriters Ian Gomm and Nick Lowe, Silver Pistol became an underground hit and launched the British pub rock trend of the mid-1970s.

The Tubes, who mixed progressive rock with wild theatricality, and Journey, formed from among some of Carlos Santana's sidemen and eventually experiencing a peak as one of the most popular AOR acts in the United States, were virtually the only acts from San Francisco to gain any sort of fame in the mid-1970s.

A downturn caused by the low world sugar prices in the mid-1970s was followed by possibly the worst sugar prices hitting rock bottom in 1985.

Punk rock and its derivatives emerged in the mid-1970s largely at two venues: CBGB on the Bowery, the western edge of the East Village, and Max's Kansas City on Park Avenue South.

Protopunk is a term used retrospectively to describe a number of musicians who were important precursors of punk rock in the mid-1960s to mid-1970s, or who have been cited by early punk musicians as influential.

Initially a side project of Santana's drummer Michael Shrieve, Automatic Man brought together well respected musicians of diverse backgrounds within the rock, funk and jazz communities of the mid-1970s.

The band is managed by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals, and is known for a string of ( mainly ) mid-1970s hit singles that are staples of the classic rock radio format.

Mood rings were a short-lived fad of the mid-1970s ( like the pet rock ) and were especially popular with young girls.

* Atlantis ( band ), a mid-1970s rock group that emerged from Frumpy

Atlantic deemphasized Atco in the mid-1970s, using the label mostly for releases by hard rock acts and some British and European bands.

Danny Rumour ( aka Daniel John Atkins ) was a member of punk rock bands Blackrunner, Urban Guerrillas, Friction, Ugly Mirrors and Bedhogs in Sydney from the mid-1970s to 1980.

They started playing music together in the mid-1970s, when punk rock became popular in the underground music scene.