This Band Was SO BADA$$...They INVENTED THE 80s in 1978! | Professor of Rock

Today’s year was something else. Where it was the last hurrah for one Genre… Rock made a huge comeback with songs that have become like old friends. Including Who Are You by The Who that dropped the F-bomb clearly several times, but somehow got past the censors and is still played today…Then there was the Punk Icon that questioned Freddie Mercury's masculinity, and then Mercury turned around and wrote the Toughest Rock Anthem of the time: We Will Rock You. Then there was the rookie band Foreigner that ran out of songs at their first festival, so they ad-libbed Hot Blooded on the spot, and it became a classic. Plus, the Saxophone song Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty made sales of the instrument skyrocket across the world. But the guy who played the sax part only got paid 36 bucks for it, and the check bounced! We’ve got a great countdown coming up on Professor of Rock. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Elizabeth Kohll, Sounding Bored, Michele M., Tim Coffey, Aloysius Jr Alday ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my Hand Picked Selection Below Professor's Store - Van Halen OU812 Vinyl Album https://amzn.to/3tLsII2 - The 80s Collection https://amzn.to/3mAekOq - 100 Best Selling Albums https://amzn.to/3h3qZX9 - Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie https://amzn.to/3ifjdKQ - 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art https://amzn.to/2QXzmIX - Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon https://amzn.to/3h4ilrk - Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every Day) https://amzn.to/2ZcTlIl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out The Professor of Rock Merch Store -http://bit.ly/ProfessorMerch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out Patron Benefits http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Help out the Channel by purchasing your albums through our links! As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support. Click here for Premium Content: https://bit.ly/SignUpForPremiumContent https://bit.ly/Facebook_Professor_of_Rock https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of_Rock #classicrock #70smusic #vinylstory #70srock Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you remember this commercial, you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Make sure to subscribe below right now. I promise that you are going to love this channel. Professor of rock.com It’s time to step into the Delorian and set the time circuits for the year of Saturday Night Fever and Grease, for the year that Bucky Freaking Dent blasted a Home run over the Green monster when the Yankees beat the Red sox to advance to the playoffs and later win the world series…Speaking of blasts.. Blasting from the stereos in ’78, was a savory variety of some of the most memorable songs of the Rock Era. Today, we celebrate the year 1978 and count down the 11 best songs of that year. I’m cheating again because I’m going with 11 instead of 10. Our countdown begins with perhaps the most controversial hit of 1978…” Only the Good Die Young” by Billy Joel at #11: Billy Joel tries to seduce a nice, religious catholic girl. It was based on a real girl that Billy knew, but in the song, nothing actually happens. The girl holds her ground. She doesn’t give in. It’s a story about desire, sure—but it’s also about restraint. It still sent the Catholic church into a tizzy…. Billy would just shake his head and say, “I don’t know what all the fuss was about. She stayed chaste!” Catholic bishops from different states tried to get the song banned. And in some cases, it worked. But it just made the song more popular…the song peaked at #24 on the Hot 100, and #18 in Canada, and was a significant part of Billy’s epic album The Stranger that sold over 10 million copies, and was one of the most distinctive to come out of ’78. Moving along on our countdown at # 10, I’ve got the classic song “Who Are You” by The Who! The odyssey surrounding “Who Are You” came from one of the strangest, most chaotic days in Pete Townshend’s life. It unfolded in a cramped office on Denmark Street—London’s version of Tin Pan Alley—where songwriters and music publishers hashed things out, often with gritted teeth. Pete spent eleven grueling hours in a marathon meeting over royalty payments for his songs. By the end of it, he was fried. Mentally and emotionally done. As he later put it, “Eleven hours in the Tin Pan—God, there's got to be another way.” Still, he walked out of there with a hefty royalty check in his pocket. That should’ve been a victory. But instead of celebrating, Pete got wrecked.