Why 1976 Was The Year The Counter-Culture Became The Culture
Soundcheck | Jun 11, 2014
It was America's bicentennial, but 1976 didn't feel like a very auspicious year. The country was still reeling from Watergate and the recession, and the offerings from television and rock music — previously bastions of exciting innovation — were feeling stale. Yet huge changes were afoot, from politics to technology to music to comedy, that would remake the country for decades to come.
In The Spirit of '76: From Politics to Technology, the Year America Went Rock & Roll, David Browne reminds us that 1976 was the year of the Apple computer, Saturday Night Live, the Ramones, and a presidential candidate who hung out with rock stars. He joins us to share the sounds of that year.
