Music in 1971

By Patrick Mondout

Carole King's Tapestry not only won Album of the Year at the Grammys, it became the all time bestseller - an honor it held until Frampton's live album took over in the 1976.

Here are some of the albums you may have been listening to in 1971:

Al Green - Green Gets Next To You

Allman Brothers Band - at Fillmore East

B.B. King - Live in Cook County Jail

Bee Gees - Trafalgar

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Bread - Manna

Carly Simon

Carly Simon - Anticipation

Carole King - Tapestry

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman

Chicago - III

Chicago - Live at Carnegie Hall

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Four Way Street (Live)

Don McLean - American Pie

Doors - L.A. Woman

Elton John - 11-17-70

Elton John - Madman Across the Water

Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection

Faces - A Nod is As Good As a Wink to a Blind Horse

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson

Isaac Hayes - Shaft

James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim & The Blue Horizon

John Lennon - Imagine

John Prine

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Led Zeppelin - IV

Linda Ronstadt

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Neil Diamond - Stones

Olivia Newton-John - If Not For You

Paul McCartney - Ram

Paul McCartney & Wings - Wild Life

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Poco - Deliverin' (Live)

Poco - From The Inside

Roberta Flack - Quite Fire

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On

T. Rex - Electric Warrior

Three Dog Night - Golden Biscuits

Three Dog Night - Harmony

The Who - Who's Next

Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey