New York City 1970s overview
In the early 1970s the city of New York lapsed into bankruptcy, and the music business completed its move west, centring on Los Angeles. When New York City’s musical resurgence occurred at the end of the decade, it owed little to the tradition of craftsmanship in songwriting, engineering, and session musicianship that had characterized the city’s popular music in the pre-Beatles era. Rather, it was a product of the city’s reputation as the centre of the world and a place where the thrills outweighed the danger. As the middle class fled the city, people from all over the globe took ...(100 of 201 words)