The 1970s could fit a glitter ball, a punk club, and a 20-minute guitar solo into the same record collection.
These 1970s music trivia questions cover artists, albums, genres, and releases dated from 1970 through 1979.
1970 and 1971: A New Decade Drops the Needle
The seventies open with landmark farewells, solo debuts, and albums that refused to stay in one lane.
- Which Beatles album released in 1970 shares its title with the group's final single?
Answer: Let It Be - Which 1970 album includes Simon & Garfunkel's title song Bridge Over Troubled Water?
Answer: Bridge Over Troubled Water - Who released the 1970 album After the Gold Rush?
Answer: Neil Young - Which Black Sabbath album opens with War Pigs?
Answer: Paranoid - Who recorded the 1970 hit American Woman?
Answer: The Guess Who - Which singer-songwriter released Tapestry in 1971?
Answer: Carole King - Which Marvin Gaye album begins with its title track and ends with Inner City Blues?
Answer: What's Going On - Which Led Zeppelin album contains Stairway to Heaven?
Answer: Led Zeppelin IV - Who released the 1971 album Blue?
Answer: Joni Mitchell - Which former Beatle organized the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971?
Answer: George Harrison - Which 1971 Who album includes Baba O'Riley?
Answer: Who's Next - What 1971 Don McLean song refers to the day the music died?
Answer: American Pie - Which Doors album was the last released before Jim Morrison's death?
Answer: L.A. Woman - Who recorded the 1971 hit Maggie May?
Answer: Rod Stewart - Which 1971 Sly and the Family Stone album includes Family Affair?
Answer: There's a Riot Goin' On
1972 and 1973: Glam, Soul, and Concept Albums
Platform boots meet ambitious studio craft as rock, soul, and reggae all stretch their borders.
- Which David Bowie alter ego arrived on a 1972 concept album?
Answer: Ziggy Stardust - What 1972 Rolling Stones double album includes Tumbling Dice?
Answer: Exile on Main St. - Who released Superfly as a film soundtrack in 1972?
Answer: Curtis Mayfield - Which 1972 Stevie Wonder album includes Superstition?
Answer: Talking Book - What was the title of Lou Reed's 1972 album produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson?
Answer: Transformer - Which 1973 Pink Floyd album features a prism on its cover?
Answer: The Dark Side of the Moon - Who released Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in 1973?
Answer: Elton John - Which 1973 Stevie Wonder album includes Higher Ground?
Answer: Innervisions - What 1973 album introduced Bruce Springsteen with Blinded by the Light?
Answer: Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. - Which band released the 1973 album Houses of the Holy?
Answer: Led Zeppelin - Who recorded the 1973 hit Midnight Train to Georgia?
Answer: Gladys Knight & the Pips - Which 1973 Bob Marley and the Wailers album includes Get Up, Stand Up?
Answer: Burnin' - What 1973 Iggy and the Stooges album was mixed by David Bowie?
Answer: Raw Power - Which 1973 New York Dolls album was their self-titled debut?
Answer: New York Dolls - Which Dolly Parton album released in 1973 looks back on her East Tennessee upbringing?
Answer: My Tennessee Mountain Home
1974 and 1975: Big Hooks and Bigger Albums
Mid-decade radio had room for soul epics, confessional songwriting, and riffs built for arenas.
- Which 1974 Queen album includes Killer Queen?
Answer: Sheer Heart Attack - Who released the 1974 album Court and Spark?
Answer: Joni Mitchell - Which 1974 David Bowie album includes Rebel Rebel?
Answer: Diamond Dogs - What 1974 Eric Clapton hit was a cover of a Bob Marley song?
Answer: I Shot the Sheriff - Which solo artist released Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe in 1974?
Answer: Barry White - Which 1975 Bruce Springsteen album opens with Thunder Road?
Answer: Born to Run - What six-minute Queen single topped the UK chart in 1975?
Answer: Bohemian Rhapsody - Which 1975 Fleetwood Mac album was the first to feature Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks?
Answer: Fleetwood Mac - Who released the 1975 album Horses?
Answer: Patti Smith - Which 1975 Eagles album includes One of These Nights?
Answer: One of These Nights - Who recorded the 1975 hit That's the Way (I Like It)?
Answer: KC and the Sunshine Band - Which 1975 Earth, Wind & Fire album includes Shining Star?
Answer: That's the Way of the World - What 1975 David Bowie song became his first US number-one single?
Answer: Fame - Which 1974 Kraftwerk album includes Autobahn?
Answer: Autobahn - Who recorded the concerts used for the 1976 album Frampton Comes Alive! in 1975?
Answer: Peter Frampton
1976 and 1977: Disco Balls and Punk Clubs
Dance floors exploded while punk bands stripped rock back to speed, volume, and attitude.
- Which 1976 Eagles album shares its name with a famous title track?
Answer: Hotel California - Who released Songs in the Key of Life in 1976?
Answer: Stevie Wonder - Which 1976 Ramones album opens with Blitzkrieg Bop?
Answer: Ramones - What 1976 ABBA hit begins with the invitation to dance?
Answer: Dancing Queen - Which 1976 Boston album includes More Than a Feeling?
Answer: Boston - Who recorded the 1976 hit Play That Funky Music?
Answer: Wild Cherry - Which 1977 Fleetwood Mac album includes Dreams?
Answer: Rumours - What 1977 Saturday Night Fever soundtrack group recorded Stayin' Alive?
Answer: The Bee Gees - Which Sex Pistols album was released in 1977?
Answer: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - Who released the 1977 album The Stranger?
Answer: Billy Joel - Which 1977 David Bowie album opens the Berlin Trilogy?
Answer: Low - What 1977 Talking Heads debut single warned listeners to watch out?
Answer: Psycho Killer - Which Donna Summer hit from 1977 was produced with Giorgio Moroder?
Answer: I Feel Love - Who released Bat Out of Hell in 1977?
Answer: Meat Loaf - Which 1977 debut album includes the punk single White Riot?
Answer: The Clash
1978 and 1979: Dance Floors, New Wave, and No Looking Back
The decade closes with disco at full sparkle and new wave already knocking at the club door.
- Which 1978 Blondie album includes Heart of Glass?
Answer: Parallel Lines - Who released the 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town?
Answer: Bruce Springsteen - Which 1978 Van Halen debut includes Runnin' with the Devil?
Answer: Van Halen - What 1978 Chic hit tells listeners to dance?
Answer: Le Freak - Who recorded the 1978 disco hit Last Dance?
Answer: Donna Summer - Which 1978 Rolling Stones album includes Miss You?
Answer: Some Girls - What 1979 Michael Jackson album was produced by Quincy Jones?
Answer: Off the Wall - Which 1979 Pink Floyd album includes Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2?
Answer: The Wall - Who released the 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps?
Answer: Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Which 1979 Clash album shares its title with a British capital?
Answer: London Calling - What 1979 Sugarhill Gang single helped bring rap to a mass pop audience?
Answer: Rapper's Delight - Which 1979 Donna Summer album includes Hot Stuff and Bad Girls?
Answer: Bad Girls - Who recorded the 1979 new wave hit My Sharona?
Answer: The Knack - Which 1979 AC/DC album was the last with singer Bon Scott?
Answer: Highway to Hell - What 1979 song by Gloria Gaynor became a disco-era survival anthem?
Answer: I Will Survive
Disco, Funk, Soul, and R&B
This round leaves the rock stadium for the groove-heavy records that transformed dance music and modern pop.
- Which Philadelphia soul group recorded If You Don't Know Me by Now?
Answer: Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Who was the lead singer heard on that recording?
Answer: Teddy Pendergrass - Which band featured George Clinton and recorded Give Up the Funk?
Answer: Parliament - What sister group recorded We Are Family in 1979?
Answer: Sister Sledge - Which Chic founders wrote and produced many disco classics?
Answer: Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards - Who recorded Rock Your Baby in 1974?
Answer: George McCrae - Which artist released the 1972 album Let's Stay Together?
Answer: Al Green - Who recorded the 1976 number-one disco hit Love Hangover?
Answer: Diana Ross - Which Isley Brothers album includes That Lady?
Answer: 3 + 3 - Who recorded the 1972 number-one hit Me and Mrs. Jones?
Answer: Billy Paul - Which Ohio Players album includes Love Rollercoaster?
Answer: Honey - Who sang the 1978 hit Got to Be Real?
Answer: Cheryl Lynn - Which group recorded Boogie Oogie Oogie?
Answer: A Taste of Honey - Who released Young, Gifted and Black in 1972?
Answer: Aretha Franklin - Which 1979 Prince album includes I Wanna Be Your Lover?
Answer: Prince
Country, Folk, and Singer-Songwriters
Acoustic guitars and sharp storytelling gave the decade some of its most intimate records.
- Who wrote and recorded Jolene in 1973?
Answer: Dolly Parton - Which John Denver hit begins with Almost heaven, West Virginia?
Answer: Take Me Home, Country Roads - Who recorded Blue Bayou as a 1977 hit?
Answer: Linda Ronstadt - Which Willie Nelson album from 1975 became a landmark of outlaw country?
Answer: Red Headed Stranger - Who released the 1970 album Sweet Baby James?
Answer: James Taylor - Which 1972 Neil Young album includes Heart of Gold?
Answer: Harvest - Who wrote You're So Vain?
Answer: Carly Simon - Which 1974 Harry Chapin hit tells a father-and-son story?
Answer: Cat's in the Cradle - Who recorded the 1975 breakup album Blood on the Tracks?
Answer: Bob Dylan - Which Emmylou Harris album from 1975 includes If I Could Only Win Your Love?
Answer: Pieces of the Sky - Who recorded The Gambler in 1978?
Answer: Kenny Rogers - Which 1977 Waylon Jennings song shares its title with an outlaw town?
Answer: Luckenbach, Texas - Who wrote and first recorded Angel from Montgomery in 1971?
Answer: John Prine - Which Cat Stevens album includes Wild World?
Answer: Tea for the Tillerman - Who released the 1974 album Late for the Sky?
Answer: Jackson Browne
Albums, Festivals, and Seventies Music Milestones
Finish with covers, venues, labels, awards, and live moments that helped define the era.
- Which 1970 festival film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature?
Answer: Woodstock - What famous New York punk club opened in 1973?
Answer: CBGB - Which record label released early albums by the Ramones and Talking Heads?
Answer: Sire Records - What benefit concert and triple album were organized by George Harrison in 1971?
Answer: The Concert for Bangladesh - Which band's farewell concert became the 1978 film The Last Waltz?
Answer: The Band - Who directed The Last Waltz?
Answer: Martin Scorsese - Which singer became the first artist to win Album of the Year three times when Songs in the Key of Life won?
Answer: Stevie Wonder - What 1976 concert film featured Led Zeppelin?
Answer: The Song Remains the Same - Which 1972 film featured Aretha Franklin recording a live gospel album?
Answer: Amazing Grace - What Los Angeles club became closely associated with 1970s singer-songwriters?
Answer: The Troubadour - Which 1977 album cover shows Fleetwood Mac members Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks?
Answer: Rumours - What object appears on the cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here?
Answer: Two businessmen shaking hands, one on fire - Which 1973 album cover shows a prism splitting light into a rainbow?
Answer: The Dark Side of the Moon - What British music awards were first held in 1977 as the BPI Awards?
Answer: The Brit Awards - What Sony product introduced in 1979 changed portable music listening?
Answer: The Walkman
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Sources and Further Reading
- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee archive
- Grammy Awards artist and recording search
- Library of Congress National Recording Registry
- Official Charts Company archive
- Billboard chart history
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